Show 7f Save Scrap! Let's ail resolve' here and now to keep the scrap moving to war industries during the new year ' 0 Vol 146 No 79 The Weather fif CiUv authorities) Salt Lake Gty Utah Friday Morning January 1 Promise Progress Toward Victory j - : ' 7 ' h'- - "-- '- " 'V-'-A - r " j -- - Couple With Warning That Much Hard Fighting Faces Allied Nations ! V- -- - V-'- - " - t - - t -- s - : ' - " " : 4- carasmps aneaa Their New Year's statements issued through the office ofwar Information follow (thefirst-w- Wallace Urges textually) Ptimson— "Despite some initial Use of Forcje defeats in the year just past America has now firmly set its the way to victory It is To feet Peace Secretary of War Stimson Keep along hard road beset with many are fighting ene obstacles o : WMMMwamimmmmmmmk on We mies who are strong and who are determined to fight to the end "Fortunately our army — in its equipment its training its leadership and the provisions made for the health and safety of its men — is more powerful with each passing day Backed by the determination of the American peo-- " pie to support it with everything in their power it will be a force against which in the end no na tion or combination of nations can prevail Nineteen forty-thre- e will be "a hard year but one which God willing will bring us nearer : — uur prospects 1943 will be better -- are than brighter 1942: we have paved the roads to the battlefields all over the world The great war machine of the is gathering united andnations momentum But we strength must expect more reverses before the enemies' power is broken They are still strong cunning and ruthless Millions of them are ready to die if t£ey cannot win The offensive has passed into our hands but each of us on the home front will have to tighten his belt work harder and get along with less and less so that our men in the battle line will have what they must have to wan It will be a no mistake grim struggle— There are tears and weariness ahead But beyond the shadows is certain victory" Donald M Nelson chairman war production board — " in 1943 we shall be living in a full war economy If that will try our endurance it will also be a challenge to our intelligence and our resourcefulness We must attain a huge increase in the production of war goods but we cannot expect to get much of that increase through furtiTer expansion of our resources"1 or our physical our main reliance must-xbplant on improved technology intensive cultivation of the enormous potential strength we have developed It will be a hard year but it will be fruitful V Elmer Davis director office of information — "We shall need determination to face murage and the fjrr-a- s we meet the full impact of the war in the c&ming e will yrar Therennr! welcome news hr-- TJnt of bravferv iMrtnr('ia must be ready for bad news too The casualty lists the news of lost battles the hopes that have not been realized When the bad news is worst we 'shall come closest to understanding what war means and what it takes to win We have what it takes of course In the New Year we shall have toruse it if we to win th B Wa r And we nri o o tn are-goin- g win Corps as Means — Vice Dec War-Flushe- 31 (UP) Henry A Wal- lace said world peace in be insured by force and he recommended an interna tional air corps as a chief implement of enforcement Wallace whose periodic speeches at -- T' -- - - j d Millions Seek One Last Fling Before Food Liquor Supplies Become Scarce Din Greets New Year In London - - war-dimm- ed 5 " i U S Will Drop Food Stamps The depailmentf the tion whfeh broght the stamp book plan into beings no longer exists Most food surpluses it said disappeared some time ago and the ranks of those needing assistance have dwindled as a result of war reemployment have always- b£ejvi identi- lti uie treasury we snail pledee ourselves to new efforts for the sale of war savin bonds to add to our achievement" of the " year just ended Petroleum Administrator Ickes "New and great problems of supply are in prospect jpetroleum The winningof this pforr 1943 of survival is poing to require T?eears of oil" The increasing tempo of military action on the many world fronts will require vastly greater amounts of specialized petroleum products in 1943 left andLSecretary X the united States postwar " By United Press aims have aroused widespread debate participated in a radio inter America's tens of millions undaunted by high prices ration view with Columnist Raymond Clapper which was broadcast over ing gasoline shortages and other wartime inconveniences cele the Mutual network and short-wave- d brated New Year's eve in typical American fashion Thursday to all parts of the world night Amplifies Views From coast to coast the celeThursday night the vice presi brants with more spending money dent amplified his recent W'oodrow than at any time since the late Wilson day address in which he twenties a to world council stayedp to see the bid urged postwar out and a new aid in creating thejnew arrive global de year mocracy Parties were tempered by war"It seems to me he said "that time precautions in coastal areas four put of five Americans are but nevertheless record crowds LONDON ' Friday Jan 1 convinced that it is a good thing jammed the hotels and clubs to IJP) — A throng as polygot as to use power to enforce peace" have one last" fling before rationLondon- has ever known sang But headAed it will be impossible ing clamps down further on food and cheered and toasted the to prevent military war even by and liquor supplies new year in force "unless continuous strenuMost of the large cities placed Hundreds of thousands of ous ami united efforts are' made curfews in effect and took special persons packing the west to attain economic justice" fire precautions to prevent a of the darkened streets end tragedy similar to the disastrous World Fiscal Agency capital and blocking all Boston night club fire traffic from St Paul's to He also advocated an interna Park cornerjyoiced a Hyde tional financial agency to handle NEW YORK Dec 31 CP) — roar as Big Ben mighty international projects and inter- Young 1943 chased care-wor- n 1942 chimed midnight national "authorities" like the Ten- right up Then they started singing Broadway nessee valley authority and New — Tipperary and Auld Lang night and they were York port authority to supervise Thursday both pretty conspicuous without Syne were the favorites international activities uniforms and blowing horns and mak"--1 Asked by Clapper what projects For on this second New Year's at ing noise with anything an international financial agency eve of the war soldiers sailors ' hand and marines of the united nations might handle he said: of American Hundreds "The most important' one is to constituted a large segment of soldiers thronged Piccadilly build the international airports the millions here who cheered The majority said Circus which are absolutely vital if the sang and sometimes just howled It was the biggest and gaynternational air force is to safe the old year out est New Year's celebration But it wasn't all sound and furV peace cheaply and ef- guard (the they ever had seen Continued on Pf Fight) In" reverent silence 'hundreds (Columa jTwol bowed their head in praywata holy hour service in St Patrick's lights were dim in conformity with cathedral over which Archbishop war atregulations Times Squarethou'Francis J Spellman presided Up U3ual of tracted its quota town in the gigantic cathedral of to sing the national St John the divine Episcopaf sands ready at midnight Bishop William T Manning led anthem Those along the waterfront Church-goer- s in devotions Watch services were held in other watched for the statue toof libarty WASHINGTON Dec 31 (JP) — night in New York harbor flasha churches throughout the city The agriculture department ansignal from fter brilliant its spectacutrn (Contir-nounced Thursday the suspension larAlthoughwere dark and street Eight) y signs (Column Ftv) of its food starnjf program effective March 1 probably for the duration of the war t The stamp program was inaugurated in 1939 to increase consimp-tio- n of surplus foods and at the Pjple St -n with a warning that many obstacles and hardships lie ahead With other American leaders they agreed the enemy is still strong on same time to improve diets of families through a system of subsidies ' : At its peak in 1941 the program gave assistance to' 400&000 needy 4kstetesThe 'program persons l was operated states except — ©is America Greets Nelson Warns With Mighty Splurge Of Privations 1943 President Thursday night that in '43 must the postwar Coming Coastal Areas Mix Precautions With Joy if necessary Of Assuring Aims Secretarv of the Treasury "This New Year "shoflra be more than' an occasion for the ehoyibe a time for rededicatlon to the cause of freedom and fair play-- t with which the American Mor-r-nthau- vOmmJUtt of the Navy Knox who coupled promises of progress toward an allied war victory in 1943 Favors World Air WASHINGTON low-inco- 1 i in-aJ- situa-WOUI1- To Special Russian Communique Covers Period of Last Six Weeks Drive Still Unchecked Says Soviet V By Associated Press LONDON Dec 31— British men-owengaged an enemy naval force in northern waters early Thursdayseaand thus far in the continuing fight have damaged and chased one enemy cruiser from the scene and left an enemy severely hit and in sinking condition ' The admiralty's terse communi que said: "Early Thursday hTs majesty's ships made contact with an enemy torce in northern waters "During the ensuing engagement an enemy cruiser was damaged and withdrew "An enemy destroyer was severely hif? and when last seen was in sinking" condition - ar By Associated Press WASHINGTON Dec 31 —Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary' of the Navy Knox promised Thursday night that 1943 would bring further military progress toward victory buttbey and other government officials warned of many obstacles and r ty Fire Hits Shipyard PROVIDENCE R I Dec 31 (INS) — Fire destroyed the fabri cations plant of the Rheem shipyard builders of war transport than in 1942 And whatever that vessels late Thursday Damage demand 4s and whenever the call was estimated at $200000 and for more and more oil may come production at the yards will be Eight) Cmtlmjd on P halted for an indefinite period (Column Tour) -- Boston CrandJury Indicts 10 In Night Cluh Holocaust holocaust and gave the night BOSTON Dec 31 (UP)-Te- n club a Clean bill of health men including Boston's city amael Rudnick Bostoh and a police ' contractor" a fire' Worcester lieutenant and captain wh© dec the Reuben Bodenhorn Suffolk indicted yvere by orated the Cocoanut Grove rand iiXJy Thursday in Theod-F Eldracher a city connection with the Cocoanut Grove holocaust of November 28 h building inspector : i inn persons penaueu earnett Welansky owner of in whichl sat y the of After a night club investigation in James Welansky his brother the third worst fire disaster and acting manager world history the grand David Gilbert who was emindicted: jury ployed ori construction of a new City Building Commissioner cocktail lounge In the" Grove Jacob Goldfine a wine stewJames H Mooney 46 ' Police Captain Joseph A ard at the club Authorities did - not disclose who was in the night club on a "routine" inspection Immediately the specific The grand jury howtour when the fire broke out charges Lin-ne- y ever had Investigated the posFire Lieutenant Frank J who inspected the Cocoa-nsibility of both manslaughter and criminal negligence Grove eight days before the Dtrfiding-commission- er 1 13-da- 20-m- an Buc-cigro- ss ut I Foresees Auto Travel Sharply Curtailed Many Stores Closing WASHINGTON Dec 31 (P) — Prospects of severe privations on the home front in 1943 multiplied in comparison with civilian sacrifices in 1942 were foreseen Thursday by Donald M Nelson war production board chairman as necessary to winning the war t He predicted that "travel by automobile is due for restriction much more drastic than that obtained to date" and saw a possibility that many merchants may close their businesses because of a scarcity of things to sell Full effects of the curtailment of goods available to civilians he wrote Representative Patman (D) Texas "will be felt rigorously in the near future as stocks now in our warehouses and shelves are used up" Nelson's letter was In answer to a protest by Patman chairman of the house committee on small business against "the control of heavy inventories in the hands of the exclusion large distributors' of the 1770335 small merchants distributed in large and :small cities and crossroads" "In connection with our distribution system" the W P B chairman said "we must squarely face the 'fact chat the entire line of some distributors will be eliminated and major parts of the lines Allies — (Official) By Associated Press A great cumulative Russian victory-- the annihilation or capture to date in the soviet winter offensives of 31650 of Hitler's troops and mercenaries on the approaches to Stalingrad — was announced early Friday by the soviet command in a special communique reflecting the strong quiet confidence of the allied world as the black year 1942 — Activity of US in Air Unit Tunisia Drive In Months It was the first flare-u- p of real naval activity in northern waters where the German navy prowls on deadly watch for allied convoys to Russia since last August when the battleship Tirpitz ventured Into the convoy lanes from her Norwegian fjord hideout and was reported torpedoed and damaged by a Russian submarine The Tirnitz which has been reported lying in her Norwegian lair and repairing her wounds Is the 35000-to- n twin of the Bismarck the German battleship which sank Britain's battle cruiser Hood and then was sunk by massed British air and sea forces U S Navy In Region 2 United States warships in joined British naval units in the northern waters as they stood guard against ft dash by the Ger mans out to sea but the admiralty spe- communique Thursday night on mld-194- Paee Two)(Continue1 Column Four) U S Airmen Spread Ruin In Solomons U S— (Official) a' "W "Operations continue" First Death Em Enemy Cruiser Destroyer Hit London Reports Allies— (Official) IVJKBJLl Moscow Conn IS British Sea Forces Wage Battle : AT K -- Leaders Pledge' Victory Strides Year '43 During Knox and Stimson Promises ivjoox Price Five Cent 1943 (Cost Axis B129650 Med to victory" For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Continued warm Friday with abov normal temperatures Maximum temperature Thursday 58 degrees minimum temperature 41 degrees (Issued by permission of military 7 sY Some Observers Believe Axi May Plan Thrust - t Allies— (Official) By Associated Press LONDON Dec 31 — The unre lenting force of United States bomber and fighter assaults on Tunisian ports and east coast roads and bases was regarded here Thursday night as the pos sible prelude to an Increasingly imminent land offensive to be started perhaps by General Wal ther Nehring's axis forces Ono usually reliable source who could not be identified by name said he wouldn't be a bit sur prised" if some British observerswere correct in believing that Nehring was preparing a large frontal the British First assault against army Intense Air Activity The intensive American aerial activity of the past week might be intended to break up such an Offensive But there was the chance too"That it was intended to crack up Nehring's lines of supply in anticipation of an allied attack General Nehring is known to the d British however as a militarist whose penchant for the attack regardless of costs might be a determining factor A spokesman at allied head quarters in north Africa said "ground forces operated only on ran out Recapitulating and bringing together for the first time the red and terrible record of six weeks of - war in southern Russia the Russians declared that 175000 nails and satellite soldiers had diedJ and that 137650 had been captured Vast Forces Knocked Out These vast forces were knocked out in three great operations related in purpose: Soviet thrusts northwest and southwest of Stalingrad down the middle Don and south of Stalingrad But not even this — this triumphant turnabout in one of the bloodiest sieges of history— was all The soviet announced as well that its offensives below Stalingrad still were rolling unchecked that Thursday the city of Obliv-skaon the Chir river In th great bend of the Don and lesser points had been overrun Other Russian armies were reported thrusting far but toward Russia' old Baltic boundaries northwest ya of Moscow British Battle Foe on Sea The British navy too saluted the arrival of a new and by ail a thft lnrpuprt stem - — ft utkUl — by running down and coming to grips at last with a German naval force in the north Atlantic damaging and driving off an enemy " cruiser and leaving an enemy destroyer crippled and sinking in' the first phase of an engagement which still was continuing Just where in "northern waters' the guns were thundering was of course not stated but the 35000-to- n battleship Tirpitz and a lesser nazi pack have long been skulking about in Norwegian waters along the allied line to Russia — the Tir-pitz herself having last been reported lying In a fjord for repairs Adolf Hitler issuing an order of the day to his armed forces and reviewing their accomplish ments in 1942 again promised them victory — but with thissiz- ' V By United Press Dec 31- - — WASHINGTON American fliers in five destructive sweeps over Japanese positions In five the Solomons destroyed barges knocked out a big cannon and hammered aerial and shore " nificant qualification: patrol" facilities with bombs and machine Axis Makes Claims No matter how severe the struggle is and will be and no matgun fire the navy reported Thurs- The German and Italian com ter how often the scales seemingly day- however reported in- tip in favor of our war enemies" out muniques The attacks'wej-ejearrietensified artillery dueling and said Tuesday and Wednesday by some the allies were forced to give up MOSCOW JSridav Jan 1 U£— were not The These of the hardest hitting --planes in some positions Russians announced Fridav the American aerial arsenal — identified troops had ooaiaeaemy also Germans The Consolidated Catallna reported been killed navy patrol or captured in thre in on fires nfgrht bombers DOuirlas dive bombers starting: (Continued Wednesday Pk Seven) of their great winmajor phases ong-range on attack a and Grumman Wildcats and the4 surprise ter offensive on the approaches to BelAtra-cobr- a Casablanca on the Atlantic coast army's cannon-studde- d and that 22 German Stalingrad v of French Morocqo and Rumanian fighters divisions were was It allied At' headquarters Swinging out from Henderson sealed before-- the ruined tightly For— field the planes pounded the new disclosed that big Flying f city and light Martin Marau- Volga Of these Jap air base at Munda an anchor- tresses 175000 were killed and age at Vangunu island in the ders and Douglas Havocs bat184450 were captured a special and Sfax of areas central Solorrhsns the Rekata bay tered the port communique announced in the re again Wednesday while port of six weeks of bitter fighting BUENOS AIRES Dec 31 UP) — area and a gun position on ! Guad- Gabes e Lockheed alcanal Lightnings The Argentine foreign ministry n Surround 22 Axis Divisions one of the sweeps were patrolled the All expressed "astonishment" Thurs- carriedbutout Wednesday border "The in a short re--day night over Britain's official riod of redarmy time successfully aecom- criticism of Argentina's maintenance of diplomatic relations with plished a most difficult operation circle by surrounding in a the axis powers 22 enemw divisions in tight th rf It said the British government had attacked Argentine foreign Stalingrad" the Russians said Tremendous quantities of booty policy "in terms which are not in were captured and even greater with the relakeeping friendly Ltions between the two" countries" in aliead of attack amounts were destroyed during the fllEADQUARTEFSSweeping ft ForeigriMinister Enrique Ruiz IN' AUSTRALIA Friday Jan 1 planes and medrtmbombers 11 of Stalingrad in "the middle Don Guinazu issued a d comLT— Allied air force headquarP38s 4sweat the skies area and south of Stalingrad The ': — 5 munique in answer to Thursday's ters' said Jpridaya total of 1286 off en-- clear of Japanese' fighters pa Russians lumped aij these statement "of the British- foreign Japanese-v-airplanehave been : one into sives over LaeV operation grand office deploring Argentina's ' con"'trolling In th defetoyed or damaged When the Sharp air battle was the object of which was to liqui tinuing relations with -"'the ' ene southwest Pacific since the over mies of humanity" only ofe of 12Zeros was date Hitler's forces and- "allies In f of the war nussia unscathed Nine officially were urie soulu pi The British statement asserted ginning In the first-stag- e of the six two ALLIED HEADQUARTERS that newspaper reports in Buenos reported shot down and Lock- weeks' 'offensive northwest and Two were more 1 Aires and even anvArgentine govdamaged IN AUSTRALIA Friday Jan heed Lightnings were damaged fsouthwest of Stalingrad 85000 ernment official Publication had (iP)— General Douglas MacAr-thur- 's but were able to reach homef were declared' killed and 72000 carried articles creating the erthe airmen captured base featuring roneous impression that England In the second stage in the mkJ- 0 attack planes twin - tailed Douglas was supporting Argentina"s neu speedy Don the death toll was 590OO die a in then swept over the field knocked nine Jap Zeros out of trality policy low level bombing and strafing and the captured numbered 60050 the air and destroyed 11 JapaThe third phase south and south nese bombers and fighters on sweep which caught and deCrash Kills Sculptor s four Japanese bombers west of Stalingrad where t?JlU3-sianthe ground in a series of smashstroyed miles' now 10 of are within NEW YORK Dec 31 LP)— En on one the at on Zero airdrome and the ground ing attacks steppe capital of Earlier reconnaissance planes the Kalmyck rico Glicenstein 72 Polish-- b or n Lae New Guinea Russians declared they the Elista six was and the who and On Australian artist the destre'yed surprised ground sculptor 21000 of the enemy and enemy planes on the field The killed only man ever to be honored by and American troops closed in 5200 caotifed two saw of these a joint exhibit with Rodin was heavy action against the eneJap pilots offensive to the south- the In taxi-cab killed Wednesday night by a planes blow up and a third my on the trail leading inland on Four) (CQtltlitt from Sanananda to Buna (Columa Thxe) burning fiercely hard-boile- N d : ? 5 -l- Argentina Hiti British View - long-rang- Tunisian-Tripolita-nia- reis Yank Airmen Bag Nine Zeros II Bombers in Raid on Lae -- -- AI-XJF- 200-wor- Ix-khce- ii I - s " P-3- ' A-2- fe |