Show - - r 1 i - - Sunday Morning 1ikt Uribunt Naval Warfare ITPB to Share French Leader Sweden Finds Hard Going Uses Subs in c!11 !faces N eu t 1 a1St a tus Tc e t Aids Industry TWill Capacity With All Allies For ALF Aid By Edwin Shanke - Russ Success Highlights World's Wik of War Observer Cites Donets basin Advance as Salient Move Weather Deters Eisenhower Underwater Expert Cites Fallacy in Isolating Sea Arms By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling U S N (Retired) United Press Naval Analyst It has been suggested that American "submarine power" be entrusted to a special corps within the navy under a "submarine ad miral" and With a great deal of autonomy in order to cope more with German superie'lr'rity in waging undersea war- Jr I an tank-destroyi- I 1 ri Z1 1 - '30-7- ! 327 --- 4 1- iff7 ' ti' - ' ( ' - ' ' i :' ii 7 - k- A :e r I 4i a :C--- - - - a aat' 'kasa'!---- -- a'ai 44 a -7- a - 1- - ' 'i- 1 - 4 - I 1 canal and New Guinea General Douglas MacArthur virtually completed the conquest of the Papuan peninsula and the fact that we're getting set for another advance may spur the Japs to try to beat us to the punch Like Hitler before Stalingrad they've been wasting valuable time recently NS'avell Makes Progress Waxen continued his consistent progress in western Burma and the !Nips haven't made a stand there yet They evidently got some reinforcements Iinto Kiska In the Aleutians andwe blasted away at them from the air but nothing decisive is expected there until the winter lets up On the home front there was !More ration belt - tightening as President Roosevelt gave an encouraging report to the newly convened congress It met in an evidently aggressive mood amid that it the way won't try to the professionals Theyopes the army and navy busy with Hitler and Hirohito to fool with politicians Summing up in Secretary Stimson's words:'"On all fronts the outlook Is favorable but the situation extreme optimism does N '11:4- ' -- - a 1- 4 - R 4i IL 1 - Says "win-the-wa- r" "It's loot enough to marely promise cleality in materials I posiacl workmanship tively 90101041t both to bon the Gust Don't accept bass" - :i 1 GENUINE DU PONT ACRYLIC PLATE 1 I tor 0 1 rt $r) A—di 05 a —yet" Air Chief Sees Shorter War I : "' - '- '' --a- t'a-a-- "9 P - ' A a aa -- 4 z -- 7e--L 6-- "1???4 - ::7' - 1 4 Il I Mt viesood to announce that the new platitie tient IMPA made with the ultramodern pisiatic teeth are now available at my dental service Come in laboratory and exanaiile this Wien ti ic macoet 1 I I I Use I I I 1 I YourCredit in Price No Advance No Carrying Charge Prompt Plate Repairs Diward your old style plates by in the new hating them reproducedrecommended materials transparent so highly by all Dentists of N ill Dental Plates are made only upon receipt of Impressions and orders from Utah Licensed Dentists AI vrork constructed by Union mechanics Ask to see our Labor cardWorkmanship and materials fully guaranteed - -- I MAY WITHERS 1 DENTAL LABORATORY —SERVICE— fi 17412 So Main St 1 Solt Lake City Utah Corm 11 t 01411 4 2nd South and Main Stu Polits Candy Co) M 111 il (Or P --- - DIAL - Fi I and peace of mind and life per- U-bo- On December-- 1 general: I I ISPhool WAS GRANDMA RIGHT ABOUT THESE COLD 111 For colds' coughing to reduce sniffling i nasnl congestion chest muscle soreness pioneer Grandma put faith in home-l medicated mutton suet and hot flannel Today mothers use Penetro—the excellent modern medication with the mutton suet base Penetro never fails to function 2 ways Aromatic vapors go inside with every breath—outside it comforts like a warming soothing plaster Rubbed on chest and throat it works fast Try Penetro and agree "Grandma had the right idea" 2:ic double supply 35c "' --- a0 " t' a - T I 1 4 a ) t ' 1 kLatIt04tRNI " :-a x ia 71 i --- - 4 - 4 r -- :a : P i - 1 c A -4 - a at- - a' ' ' -ail tio fa ' ' N -- - i 4 'ilia ' ' a! i4:2 a ai ID -S IA Cs It 0 S(1 Cr At cl- 1Svc) t'ae eata avve 11 (alleva'1"datt te ' Res' 4 7' j ' v- r v''- Ite dal- i 1 M AV II h t l 14 - f - ! l' Oa a- asvarr- c s'A -- Felf-Ro- ORDERS APPOINTMENTS EVENING Just write or phone our Mr John D West Dial 3706 at our expense Your aninquiry will be promptlyattenswered and his personal tion given your order MAIL IcOvoce 0a 101:1 " a " 1 Sag OR r- - - : :41 Tteveof4a310:IPirettlt 1 t 4 I- '''' NVT t"-- 19111 b IIaa cc)xla tart11":1140? 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' - s f I ' ' u war against the United States and the British empire The Japanese war leader declared that the move was a "great step forward in the prosecution of the war in greater east Asia to crush those two enemy coun- tte05 I i 1 ' -- -- -- battle-ravage- a I ' I I: 1 TOKYO (From Japanese Broadcasts) Jan 9 UPI—Premier General Hideki Toy) announced Saturday that President Wang Chingwei's national government of China at Nanking had declared 1 1 al ' " i - i t 11 " - - s rl Floor Covering I 4"-"1- ' ' '' t --'1" 5: 6: Puppet Declares War on6)Allies )1 - i A 1 brief message: "Good luck to you too" - on a r I "My teacher is doing her part too she has two sons in the service and every time she gets paid she buys a bond "Will you please send us your autograph? We want to have it framed to hang in our school "Good luck to you and to your boys dear General MacArthur" And a busy general took time out to send the autograph and this - it" eral ' tries" four-billi- held Sunday for Edgar Palmer donor of Princeton university's million-dolla- r Palmer stadium who died at his home after a short illness the war a-: I (INS)--Fun- has-sho- N J Jan 9 services will be PRINCETON is buying war stamps and collecting all kinds of metal and rutsler to help you lick the axis My cibtAs is 100 per cent in buying war stamps 'I want you to IZnoW all this bechilcause it shows that dren appreciate you and that we are doing our bit to help' you win "Our ever-growin- Mary wrote the - I Tassigny was commander In chief of the Vichy army in the Mediterranean depa r tm ent of Montpellier near the border of Spain Sete the department's seaport is 125 miles west of the Toulon naval base toward which the Germans raced when they occupied all of France and where the was French fleet subsequently scuttled De 5et-T:04- " German troops have been crossing Swedish soil between Germany and Henager Students Placed Norway an equal number each way and under strict control This with Railroads' traffic mars Swedish neutrality and most Swedes don't like the r"'6”49203re--' I i idea They say that if a similar issue arose today—that is if Germany made iuch a request—the At country would probably tight first1 x Builds Fighting Force ""' '' : Sweden has been building up her ! -to an force and air i army navy tt t 1 I i' :' unprecedented strength and has been organizing air raid precaution i and home'guards and building air 0 raid shelters and bolstering her 4 ' ' i 7'- - ' defenses otherwise at a terrific -'- t O N ki cost to the national purse t El Et roil' ELIZABETH The national debt up bERV ICE COBS from 27 billion kroner before the Positions paying up to S20000 gots( war to eight billion today and in defbating for lack of competent Stenos addition there is a raphers icit Most of the money- went into defenses NEW CLASSES START MONDAY JANUARY 21 The country is keeping its army at the peak of preparedness especially through the dangerous spring months Every Swede between the ages of 20 and 48 is af- countries Business College fected by the annual three-mont- h call-u- p 4S EAST BROADWAY even though this seriously Scarcities Grow SALT LAKE CITY You find Sweden's streets bright disrupts the country's normal life There is no doubt that the heart and colorful today its shop win American landing 'BOSTON Jan 9 (W) — Little Mary Hurley and h e r patriotic classmates feel very close to American soldiers the world over because something dear to their hearts—the autograph of General Douglas MacArthur—hangs on the w411 of their room in the Perkins -- i reported De Tassigny was tried for his life by a secret Vichy state tribunal He was accused of attempting to hold the beach at Sete southern France on November 8 when he believed the American forces invading French north Africa also would move into France against the Germans It was charged that he organized 200 French patriot troops to hold the beach until the Americans arrived In addition there were intimations that he had organized a secret group to aid the expected an Anglo-Americ- T more deadly becomes the dislocation of the national economy In dustry and even agriculture are dependent on imports which now are reduced to a trickle because of the country's Lsolation from the west Raw materials are being shipped out with little coming back in return especially from exhausted countries like Norway and Finland while Germany is having difficulty keeping up the deliveries promased In the trade treaty with Sweden of democratic Sweden Ls with the united nations and that the Germans realize it That explains their steady attacks on Sweden in the press The nazis accuse the Swedes of being unneutral "by tolerating infiltration" and have even gone to the trouble of checking booklets counting t h e number of American and English books as against German books translated into Swedish Charge Sabotage The nazi press has charged the Swedes with "sabotaging" the new order in Norway It has regularly accused the Swedish daily papers of being "hostile to Germans" has railed at the Swedes because "in London and in almost the same degree in neighboring Stockholm it has become the fashion to represent the soviets as heroic crusaders" and has threatened that Sweden will suffer if she insists in "casting eyes to the west and east" Instead of cooperating honorably with the Germans Whether it is that the attacks have become monotonous because of their regularity or whether it is confidence in their own strength the Swedes have never been perturbed by them Although he lives in one of Europe's last islands of peace where he can rub shoulders with the foe without clashing the Swede's life is deeply scored by the war and observers believe that in the long run Sweden may emerge after the d war as poor as the - believed imminent at Lyon Saturday imprisonment for post radio Vichy can invasion he was sentenced to 10 years abandoning his Children Prize Autograph Of MacArthur ts (CAIRO Jan 9 (—Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder who has been named vice chief of staff of the R A F told the correspondents Saturday that Othwar would end sooner than it erwise would because Britons and Americans had come to realize that air power is not an adjunct to land or sea power but a separate arm of war "The air represents a separate dimension linked to the sea and the sea is linked to the latid and as the land is linked to the sea"' Sir Arthur said in his farewell to correspondents in the middle east "We and now the Americans have come to understand that but the Huns and Japs have not and the war will end sooner because LONDON Jan (UP)—General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny a r ench general accused of attempting to hold a beach in southern France so as to aid an Ameri- - UP)—Encircled by axis troops and haps ts more normal than in any Sweden is doing a political tightrope other European country But the longer the war lasts the neutral 9 blockaded economically walking act in remaining She has come through a ticklishT situation and has steadily built up her military resources and now she is stronger than- shehas been since the start of the war The axis fires constant broadsides against Sweden for allegedly violating her neutrality and the Swedish press has admitted that the United States and England are not entirely satisfied with her neutrality Sweden lost her political balance at least once Since then unarmed 9 nt -- gowt?"' 7 '''' - This suggestion apparently confuses two of he jobs that our navy mu c:t perform in this war One is to iNraunter the submarine menace to °lir shipping and the other is the us itt of that type vessel against the enemy The two have little if anything- - An common I have discovered that a great many people believe that submarines can counter submurines just as airplanes make warIjn each other This is not true Allied submarines should for sarety's sake stay out of waters infe 4ed Antisub'hk by enemy rine vessels of all nations are capable of distinguishing friend foe among submarines and the inevitable rule is to attack them when in doubt Use Surface Vessels It therefore is most important for us to concentrate on the elimination of enemy submarines using appropriate surface vessels for this job in numbers commensurate with the great quantities of transport vessels the united nations are war and to using in this global g submautilize our rine force to attack the shipping of the enemy—principally Japan in this respect When the first World war was getting under way in 1914 I was in command of the submarine flotilla of our Atlantic fleet Our submarines were then a disgrace to the nation that had invented that type of'!warship Before the naval committee of congress I put forth all my objections to our submarine administration of that period incurring the ill will of the then secretary of the navy I advocated a unified control of the submarine service with greater recognition of the need for specialization in the personnel As soon as the publicity had blown over I a commander was relieved of my command by an admiral who !retained me' as his chief of staff I remained in that position long enough to see my recommendations come to pass The admiral was made the head of all submarine affairs including approval of types and sizes of new vessels: The submarine base and school at New London Conn was established and I was its first head Young MAWS Job Submarine service is a young like air man's job :Very much must be pilots submarine officers young and daring men When opare unually eratingor submarines in small groups In con- alone from every surface vessel and from the sea 'itself enemy pboiri ya single vseasaallighas beee c of our the submarine doctrine The Germans have recently de- ilfeloped a new system of at"packs" Considering daytime too tacks against guarded convoys dangerous the German submarines now usually attack at night or in fog and in groups This has produced greater success with less loss to the attackers When it comes to designing building and operating submarines the United States is not behind We Germany except in numbers cannot outbuild Germany in this type vessel because with no hope of matching allied surface fleets the reich has concentrated on Our building only submarines great need is for destroyers and U-bo- at not-justif- 41" 1 ' labor-manageme- sanger i (I - : fare Vichy Sentences Military Man Who Helped Allies WASHINGTON Jan 9 UP) —The war production board said Saturday that plans are being made to distribute to all the united nations suggestions received from American workers to improve and simplify war proT h e suggestions duction are being made already available to all American and English industry Thousands of valuable suggestions have been submitted by workers to commit tees during the past month the W P E said and 128 of them were adjudged so important that they were sent to Washington f o r governmental recognition Jan STOCKHOLM 3 A dows shining attractively Its stores loaded with the eornforts which the European countries at war have long since forgotten although scarcities are developing even here Among the people there Ls a tempered gaiety relaxation - fly Captain Lowell Limpus A New York News Military Analyst WASHLNGTON Jan 9—The most significent war news came out of Russia this week when the reds finally moved Llto a position where they can hold the ground gained Against alroost certain desperate counterattacks And presented Mr Hitler wl11 a major problem involving the use of his strategic reserves Quite apart from the glaring headlines the real accomplish- - Russian front Now he has to rernent was a small advance in the inforce his Russian armies too Donets valley that definitely cut I And if anything slips he'll be in the nazi supply line between the a bad way Rostov and Stalingrad areas In fact the axis was facing That endargered the entire Ger- trouble all around the globe this man position east of Rostov un- week as a detailed analysis reless the enemy can cut his way veals: 1—The out of the closing trap Its doubttheater: ful if Hitler can spare the re- Russian armies continued to drive serves needed for such a purpose sharply across the base of each without taking chances in other of the three great nazi defensive sectors salient s on that front They cracked the backbone of the one rink:era in Itoatev which points toward Stalingrad Rostov itself is threatened from as stated they made progress in two directions as the reds smash the one which points toward forward—and if the nazis don't Rzhev and they got dangerously check these advances they'll find close to the supply lines of the their whole Caucasus force cut third one jutting downinto the That final advance off Now at last Hitler is reap- Caucasus ing the reward for the Weeks forced the nazis to start pulling wasted at Stalingrad when - he out of that threatened trap—and should have been consolidating- his whether or not it will close repositions for the winter campaign mains to be seen Authorities quoted in this column New American Army as long ago as last November Bad weather continued to hampointed out what was likely to our efforts to get in position per now it's happened happen attack in Tunisia The of course military men here for the final won't be surprised if conaren't quite as optimistic about experts the prospects of a complete Ger- siderable time elapses before the man collapse in southern Russia ground dries out enough for us to as some of the typewriter strate- get 'going Meanwhile we and our slow but steady experts ex- allies made some gists seem to be toThelaunch bitter progress—and some day the depect the nazis and counterassaults probably tails of that new effect a fairly orderly withdrawal' equipment we used down there will to new positions But there's al- make startling reading Also sigways the possibility that the reds nificant was the organization un-of field army may really get the Germans on the Fifth American I Vie run in the course of such a der General Clark (we already retreat—and then nobody can tell have four on this side) That makes the army group under Genhow far they're apt to go eral Dwight Eisenhower consist of reel Emergency Units two armies the Fifth American Hitler must consider that pos- - and the First British And a group that's where the of field armies is something for sibility too—and Hitler to worry about especially strategic reserve problem comes Ira This thing catches him at an with the Eighth British army closawkward time right in the midst ing in on the rear of his Tunis-Tripo- li 5 divisions of juggling the position Large-scal- e allied bombing raids that he had held out for emergencies He's probably been feed- continued to pulverize t h e coning them into Italy and Tunisia tinent of Europe—and they'll pay out of his central European pool dividends this summer 2—The Pacific theater: There and replacing them with shattered units withdrawn from the were signs of a great new naval battle approaching in the southwest Pacific as we went about the !IEF business of cleaning up Guadal''''''-':Afro-Europe- January 10 1943 Zhe 5alt : 7"7:-- - '' - - |