Show '- - agdI ' r 4 1 t 1 1 1 - -- Silk Nylon Needed! 1 ' ' 1I When you have despaired of further darning of those silk or don't throw them rtylon hose away Turn them in at your nearest hosiery counters for special military uses : ' - 7)- trl' 4 :i x 1 - ' f t ' i I f -- : Itf(t' 41) 1 Y 1 - 3 :: ' (7 1' ‘ ' r -- 11 1y 11 4 H 1 ' '1 1 fr i ' 1 - 1 ' -- 1 4 t - ' '- - - i For 'Salt Lake City and Utah: Much colder over the entire stata Saturday and Saturday night acwinds Light companied by strong snowfall in tthe southwest and northeast portions Saturday ( Issued in a special announcement by i s'ilN-1At'- s' 'I 1 The Weather - 'N s - - military authorities) - 1 i - Vol 146 No 91 § t 1 1 Utah Bill Bars U S Relaxes Draft Rules Union Chiefs Vote Coal Legislators For Needed Farm Help In Dual Job's Conference Agrees to Permit Walkout End Boards to Deviate Front Formula for Deferment Bans State Posts For Two rears Following rTerm a f Y ' 16-Un- it WASHINGTON Jan 15 (2P)—A liberalization of draft deferments for essential farm workers was agreed upon late Friday at a conference of administrative officials with farm state Ben A bill which would prohibit ators 1 ribmbers of the legislature from accepting state paid jobs during their terms of office and for two years thereafter was introduced in the Utah house of representatives Friday by Representative Val H Cowles (D) Carbon Aimed to prevent legislators from using their position to gain remunerative jobs for themselves the bill is similar to one sponsored much It helps depends altogether upon its administration" Under the revised regulations local boards will be directed to or class classify in class all registrants who are considered essential on the farm under the new standards In will be included essential farm workers without dependents and In those with dependents In authorizing local boards to defer workers with less than 16 units of production by reason of variations in production conditions and methods in different states the proposed regulation states: "It would appear unreasonable however under most circumstances for a local board to consider a registrant for classification in class or unless his own personal and direct- efforts result in'the production of at least eight war units of essential farm prod- Senator Bankhead (D) Alabama spokesman for the group announced that selective service officials would issue a new directive to local draft boards immediately It will make the formula an objective rather than a requirement and the boards will be granted broad power to deviate from this objective even to the extent of deferring a producer of only eight units it The formula sets it standard for determining whether a farm worker should be deferred It stipulates that an essential worker is one who tends 16 milk cows or does a comparable amount of work toward production of livestock poultry grain and other products deemed essential "The regulation should be helpful in halting the continuous drain on farm labor that is imperiling our food and fiber production" Bankhead told reporters "How 2-- C "16-uni- t" by Mr Cowles in the 1939 session The second bill to be introduced in the house in the present session was one by Representatives Frank J 3Ioz1ey (R) Salt Lake and Quayle Cannon Jr (R) Salt Lake !rhich would make it mandatory that the seasons for fishing and hunting for elk and pheasant start on Saturday Chief object of this is to prevent Sunday opening dates By law the deer huntinz season starts on Saturday It is understood that churches favor the bill but that some 3-- C 2-- C 3-- C 16-un- That 411 was defeated by a large majority but the sponsor onehas higher hopes for the present Bill on Hunting Fishing 2-- C 3-- C - 4 ucts" Senators Vote Taxpayers Get Full Airing of Warning to Flynn Dispute File as Usual sportsmen's organizations are opposed to it Resentment against the split in the ranks of the Democratic majority which occurred last Monday in the organization of the house flared again Friday when the personnel of 20 of the 36 standing committees as named by Speaker Public Hearings Approved in Envoy Squabble 1 ' - hearings nomination mented Jan 15 Edward J to be minister on Flynn's to Australia were ordered unanimously by the senate foreign relations committee Friday after Democratic members had refused to entertain a Republican suggestion that the committee in the interest of wartime harmony recommend withdrawal of the appointment Chairman Connally (D) Texas announced the hearings would begin next Wednesday or Thursday and would be conducted by the full committee He will set the date after communicating with Flynn who has called a meeting of the Democratic national committee for Monday in Chicago to present his resignation as its Oppose Adoption After the names had been read by the clerk Representative M Rees (D) Salt Lake 4 ric tnrived that they be not adopted was seconded by Representative Grant Ntidgley (D) Salt Lake said that 'although he had ttrti trreived an important committee rhairmanship (revenue and taxaont he thought no committees 1 should be approved until they had I air been appointed ( (Mr Midgley was the Democatic caucus choice for speaker but was beaten by Mr White who had the backing of a Republican-Democrati- c A i coalition) Mrs C L Jack (D) Salt Lake asked if approval of the speaker's appointment is necessary and Representative Cannon replied by I reading from the rule book that the speaker has full authority to make committee appointments Speaker White said "It seems plain that approval is not necessary and ordered that the report chairman Closed Session Frida3es action was taken at a closed session of the committee which lasted about an hour Senator Bridges (R) New Hampshire who has made charges that Flynn is unfit to hold the diplomatic was called in at the outset be filed His action was not chal- post to present them He told reporters lenged by the house afterward that he had heard some talk in the committee "about getDebate Sending Delegates Roosevelt to withting The house spent most of the draw President the appointment but it didn't afternoon debating the advisability get anywhere" of sending delegates to a meeting Another senator who cannot be of the CoUncil of State Governname said that this rnents in Baltimore Md on Janu- quoted by was advanced by Senasuggestion 24 25 26 and and ended ary up tor Vandenberg (R) Michigan He by deciding to send two They will expressed the opinion it was rebe selected Later by the speaker that irrespective of the The senate had previously de- ported of truth any accusations against memnot to some cided of its send his usefulness in a diploFlynn bers and although Governor Her- matic post had been impaired by bert B Maw is on the program it the charges made against him and Is understood that he will be unthe over his nomination furore by able to attend Democrata Ask Airing Termed Opportunity Consequently Vandenberg was Those who favored sending deleto have said the commitreported gatea said this would be an op- tee might with propriety recomportunity to get from some of the mend that the nomination be withtop men in war production what drawn is necessary for Utah to put itself The Democratic members howmore vigorously into the war ever took the attitude that since effort Bridges hag made his charges pubBefore taking action the house in the senate the whole queswas assured that the Baltimore licly tion must be threshed out in hearmeeting will not be a duplication ings affording Flynn opportunity of the session conducted by the to refute them council recently in Los Angeles Senator Barkley of Kentucky for a discussion of war legislation th0 Democraitc leader mad an Several members of both senate informal motion that open hearand house attended the Los Ange- ings be held There was no dissent les meeting The motion that two representatives he sent to Qaltimore was made by Representative B H Stringham (R) Both senate and house accepted' an invitatiA of the Columbia Steel company to visit the Geseva steel DENVER Jan 15 (A'—Eighty plant on Tuesday This will mean no session of either houseon that track workers assigned to lay day new 17000 of feet heavy rail So objection was raised to the in Moffat tunnel the in without senate but the 'ame proposal house members felt it woulci:& be delaying important war trans-contrary to the avowed policy' of portation completed their job eliminating junkets and speeding in 51 hours of working time tip the session It was pointed outi with a new track - welding however that the house motion' process against junkets applied only to 6 The work vvas started Detrips to state institutions cember 31 and finished The house approved the report 11 without delaying aJanuary single of the patronage committee on wax train said Al Perlman house employes several of whom Denye'r Sc Rio Grande Western were announced several days ago railri:ad chief engineer Among those named Friday were The rails were welded togethFever) (cortine er in 11)00-fosections and the tColurna Pr Four) ed "pay-as-you-g- LabgDearth Says Wickard pay-as-you-- go New Process Speeds Laying of Track in Moffat Tunnel e r fNrt ot e welds radiographed to test their soundness Perlman said the radiograph testing was used in the Moffat tunnel project for the first time in railroad history Dovetailing their work into train schedules the track gang worked short shifts ranging up to six hours inside the tunnel An additional 5500 feet of new track will be laid in the tunnel next spring and summer The new rail weighs 130 pounds and rails replaces The track-layin- g operations were directed by Frank K Calkins division engineer of the Denver & Salt Lake railway 112-pou- ' requirements "Of course there Isn't a chance that the war boards or anyone else can meet all the needs of all farmers" the secretary said "There are many sections of the country where man power and materials are scarce—for industry as well as for agriculture There just won't be enough to go all the way around The best we can do is to see that the most pressing needs are met and to make the resources that are available go as far as we possibly can" The department said the general level of farm wage rates on January 1 was the second highest on record standing at 223 per cent of the 1910-1- 4 average compared with 166 per cent a year ago SS cN I cu 0 4" FTii I' I RI) - 1 41114e1"alrfirrIONNWOR 4 7: 4 ! 1 NIP -- o I C e t39 h t apaim ' - ll ti‘ iimi - Aw- - - --- - T h 1st fkroel svpautrutt ibzsCmoliodndel et Gen era! forces came simultaneously with sweeping Russian gains in the Can- casus where the Germans failed to halt the red tide and the corn- unique said the enemy there was "in complete rout" Approximately 30 towns and railway points were reported seized cbyomthmeuRnulesastialonnssdruerging the day Reported in Tunisian Sector Little had been heard from General Vatutin's forces lately The breakthrough in the middle Don bend sector gave Russia's big winter offensive greater momentum and increased the threat to Rostov whose capture would be a severe By United Press LONDON Jan 15—Smashing blow the Germany Rostov is the peg for all the new allied air and undersea blows communications nazi armies operating in southern against axis communications feed- Russia The communique mentioned for ing the converging African fronts were announced Friday night and the first time the fighting in the axis broadcasts said fierce land Donets river area which covers the northern approaches to Rostov fighting had broken out in Tunisia The red apparent4 had not where large American forces were yet crossedarmy the Donetoropt it occureported moving up for the battle pied the region abe1t it between Another axis report by the Ger- - the Kalitva rive4id the Moscow-Rosto- v railwairrnan D N B agency asserted the t Ttul'i-isBritish Eighth army was expected to launch a new offensive in Crostig the Kalitva around Litvinovka the Russians pushed 25 Libya Saturday miles northwest to Glubokaya staSynchronize Effort tion which is only 30 miles south Official allied reports revealing' of Millerovo and 14 miles north d an intensive and of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk- y both cf held by the Gereffort to strang4t the which still are enemy's lines of reinforcet and mans For'rhe Russians also struck 12 supply said American tresses from FrenchzCrica had miles southwest of Litvinovka to once more dealt blows Diadin close to the Donets The with destructive Ceds on the Tu- settlements of Grtitsinov and Samnisian harboreegfax and Sousse burov were taken between LavinLarge fires4Msible for scores of ovka and Glubokaya miles Diadin the southernmost point among dock and waterfront'objectives in both big of this push lies about 90 miles supply ports which already lay northeast of Rostov and covers from previous raids hard the flank of Lieutenant GenMirtin Marauder bonlbers mean- eral right Constantin Rokossovsky's while ripped up a section of the forces operating to the south coastal railway in the Mahares re- General Rokossovsky's troops algion between Gabes and Sfax while ready have driven still farther planes from the middle east com- toward Rostov to the Sal river mand held up the other end of the troops are makair offensive by ingRokossovsky's slow headway along the only blasting targets near Tripoli and lower Don river because of heavy Misurata nazi counterattacks But General Yeremenko's forces operating beTorpedo Seven Axis Ships low that river in the Caucasus The admiralty announced that additional support to those British submarines haunting near- gave red army units Friday by captur- routes Mediterranean by supply 18 towns and railway points have torpedoed seven enemy ships ing In the area between the river and in new operations Three supply the Stalingrad-Tikhorets- k ships and a minesweeper were adStrike Down Railway and three definitely destroyed ditional supply vessels can be listStriking down the railway the ed as probably sunk a communiRussians reached the station of said que Kurenny 28 miles southwest of In addition one submarine sur- Zimovniki This is 20 miles befaced close to the southern Italy coast and shelled a railroad bridge yond Kuberle the last station it considerably and taken damaging Dvoinaya between Kuberle and (Continued on Pere Four) (Column Five) Kurenny also was occupied as was Orlovskaya 12 miles southwest of Kuberle The Russians operating in this area are taking towns as close as SO - - : ' : - 25-11- - 152 Nipponese Slain i ± - le t 1 carefully-synChronize- ' Ftg the-vies- t British(Official) By Associated Press LONDON Jan 18—The Ft A F bombed Cherbourg Friday in a to a heavy nignt swift follow-u- p raid on the German submarine bas at Lorient where the British struck a defensive blow in the battle of the Atlantic Boston bombers escorted by many squadrons of Spitfires attacked Cherbourg meeting no fire Ground opposition fighter was heavy Two bombers were lost over Lorient the former French naval base now devoted almost exclusively to Hitler's estimated 400 submarines preying on supply lines Russia and north to England Africa It was Lorient's 58th raid three of which had been made by of the daylight precision bombers of unU S air forces Crippling dersea power based there is one way to reduce allied shipping losses in the Atlantic which have been heavier than usual recently d bombs were Scores of docks in on the Cherlpourg dropped ' nit 500-poun- (Continued (Column Page Four) Two) R A Outlaivs Flee Prison ' BELFAST 'Northern Ireland $12000 reward was posted Friday night for information leading to the recapture of chief of Hugh Nt'Ateer staff of the illegal Irish republican army' who With'- three companions escaped at breakfast time from Belfast prison ' Presumably the nagitives had outside aid They brotto the glass roof of the prison lauedry and made their way into tht yard where they used a rope ladt!er to scale the wall during the break:73st assembly Their flight was soon discovereci' and patrols were posted immediout of Belfast ately on all roads A watch was set on the Eire border M'Ateer was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on aNpvemberin trial 26 for treason after which it was alleged he had plotted to set up an Irish republic in northern Ireland The offense was punishable by death The son of a middle class family he was arrested October 12 in a house near Londonderry a U S naval base where explosives and I R A literature were found Jan 15 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA Saturday Jan 16 h At (jP) — An allied Sanananda New Guinea in which at least 152 Japanese were killed in one days fighting Thursday was reported in Saturday's noon communique by General Douglas Macbreak-throug- wet-a:44- a Arthur Sanananda immediately northwest of Buna on the northeast New Guinea coast is the only spot in all the Papuan peninsula still held by a fragment of a4'Jap army which once totaled 11000 There swampy jungle fortifications3-pluconditions caused by recent rains Mac-Arthu- r's -- Japanese area headquarters destroyed Friday's communique listed Jap dead there as totaling at least 116 Bombers meanwhile struck far and wide blasting targets in the Tanimbar islands in the Arafura sea harbor installation g at Rabaul New Britain and supply dumps at 'E' WOOD RIVER Ill Jan 15 urn "E" to be —The first army-nav- y won by an oil refinery was presented Friday to the Wood River plant of the Shell Oil company for its record of research and pro- duction ii ---- A Liberator on reconnaissance shot down one of two intercepting fighters over Celebes in the Dutch East Indies and near Lae another Liberator knocked down at least two out of six 1 miles to Rostov The biggest place seized in the northwestward push from the foothills was BlagodarLONDON Jan 15 (INS)— Caucasian the railhead for a line that noye Three Japanese planes of a force winds westward to Kropotkin on v that raided Calcutta Friday night the main Mineralnye were shot down by allied night railway Blagodarnoye's capture now fighters Reuter's reported in a brings the Russians into more popfrom India's Calcutta dispatch ulated areas- after driving the Ger4nans across the trackless plains largest city Its capture represented about a The royal air force fighters that advance from Sotnikovrose to intercept the small Japanese bomber formation forced the skoye which was taken Thursraiders to jettison their bombs day The red army pushing northoutside the target area it was westward from Blagodarnoye now Is threatening a rail network servannounced Antiaircraft guns did not go ing the central part of the northinto action as the Japanese bomb- ern Caucasus ers did not come withill range of Large Town Seized the city's ground defenses Another large town seized was Alexandrovskoye 35 miles north of Mineralnye Vody and about the same distance southwest of Blagodarnoye Along the Mineralnye Vody-Rostrailway itself the Russians also reported substantial gains seizing a rail station 25 miles ing another 500000 rubles for Nogutskoye from Mineralnye Vody construction of a tank C0111111r1South of the railway other red Wartime cooperation between units took Bekeshevskaya army exwas state the church and The communique said that a emplified in a recent exchange between Stalin and Sergel the total of 1500 Germans fell to Russians guns Friday in the Caucasus and the Metroacting patriarch Trainloads Moscow in which the and 400 surrendered politan of cattle motor trucks munitions 'churchman announced he WEia of and other German equipment were calling upon the clergy and beabandoned by the Germans whose a to to fund contribute lievrs every attempt at resistance did for dakstruction of a tank colnot last long under' soviet charges umn to erke named after Dmitri The 'Russians said they were Donskoyj24se rfince who defeated the in the middle using the samenal tacticsk"urso long Pag (Cr)ntinuel Cflftlelrl Three ) ages and was akknted - Vody-Posto- Nazi Planes Raid - - ep L 20-mi- le Eastern England LONDON Jan 15 ()n—German planes bombed three inland areas of eastern England Friday night causing considerable damage to roperty and a number of casualGZ-4: One bomber was shot down f Stalin Thanks Russian Clergy For Fclith inWur Victory (10—Pre- - ov 1 - corn-unicatio- ' Tars I P ) - - f It 4 v ' illtgw- 1 I'''' ' - IA ' - - Calcutta Raid - Oil Plant Gets r Allies Beat Off Lae New Guinea MOSCOW JarC:45 mier Stalin has serian expression of his gratitu0k to the Orthodox Russian clergyirt Leningrad in answer to a of the MetropotetAn Alexiv who declared his " Ilat shakable faith in an early tory of our right cause over the sanguinary insanity of fascism" Tass news agency said Friday said the The Metropolitan Leningrad diocese "in conditions of blockade" had raised a- fund of 3182143 rubles for the soviet defense fund and was contribut- - - I- two-directio- had slowed up the clean-u- p drive A spokesmivi at General headquarters did not amplify the official report which said that arry41 a n d equipment were captured after the forward positions Were destroyed Fgt up the coast at Mubo which is and inland from Salamaua another allied force ended a three-da- y assault in which "heavy" casualties were inflicted and the - VPIA - ' JL1eip - I - 4r - ta r I 1 9PP '' It"2412V4417L971 R 1 orti6-- Heavy Fighting Two) In Single Day In New Guinea 7 1 ' 1 QJ) o Ti Allies Hit Foe In Africa Via Land Sea Aims ()- Attacks by Bosons Spitfires Meet No Air Opposition Tv w RAF Bombers Allies Pierce Blast Docks Jap Lines At Sanananda At Chèrbour - n - By Associated Press 14OSCOW Saturday Jan 16—A red army surging across the Kalitva river cut the Rostov-Moscorailway rriday at MIbokaya and reached a point 90 miles northeast of Rostov nazi communications center serving southern Russia it was announced officially early Saturday 500-poun- Column iii 1 s Russia---(Offici- al) WASHINGTON Jan 15 (JP)—Bombed by Japanese airplanes hunted by enemy warships and once endangered by a hatch which was difficult to close Lieutenant Frank Lawson Jr of the American submarine service reported Friday that his undersea raider had accounted for at least three Nipponese ships sunk and two or more damaged on a series of extensive operations in the Pacific Lawson whose hone is in Baltimore Md is home on leave His story was told by the navy department in a press release He was at Manila bay in the Philippines when the war started and his sub with others took refuie from the first Japanese bombings of Cavite and Manila by lying on the Their periscopes protruded bottom of the shallow bay above the surface however and Lawson said he was able to watch the air attack from the city and harbor Revenge Comes Quickly Revenge for the destruction wrought by the Japanese attack was not long in coming Lawson's sub which was commanded by Commander Kenneth C Hurd Flint Mich was quickly sent to sea and one night shortly after leaving Manila picked up an enemy ship Two torpedoes sent that vessel down in a few minutes After two months of cruising the submarine put in at a base for reconditioning and soon afterward the Japs d bomb on the pier only a few hundred dropped a from The sub immediately submerged but the ship yards (Continued on Page Five 67) 4 - I Break:Through in Middle Don Area' Comesas Red Army Reports i Huge Gains Along Caucasus Front 11 Three Jap Vessels o" nfemers Face 7' ri Lone II S Sub Sinks tri-distr- ict SO-ce- nt -- lilt day" Pay-as-You-- 1 ''' -- WASHINGTON Jan 15 (In- -United Mine Workers' headquarters announced Friday night that a meeting of anthracite local union leaders voted Unanimously to urge the return of all strikers to their jobs on Monday The announcement was made by a spokesman for John L Lewis international president of the union after Lewis and the anthracite group had conferred for two hours and a half W L B Orders 1Vork Return The conference followed hard upon the decision of the war labor board not to rule on the merits of the miners' grievances until they had returned to work and exhausted all methods of settlement under their contract short of work stoppage Lewis' spokesman said that Leo Filip of Plymouth Pa submitted this motion at the meeting with Lewis: "I move that it is the sense of this meeting that we all return and tell our memberships to put the mines back to work next Mon- Demands Intervention Andrew Yevchak president of the general mine committee had demanded the board intervene declaring there would be a general strike in the anthracite field Monday unless he could take home word that the board Talk would consider the issues—a $2 a day increase in wages and elimiCauses Sharp nation of a increase in dues Slump in Returns Lewis president of the United Mine Workers called the WASHINGTON Jan 15 (11P)- -committee an "unauthorized constitutionally taxpayers must file 1942 income group" and declared that tak returns as usual by March 15 Illegal Yevchak and his "outlaw associates" in "this mad enterprise" regdless of the outcome of collection plans in con- would be held to accountability gress it Joint congressional state- under the laws of the union ment watped Friday Demands Must Wait ChairmaNWalter F George (D) In effect the WLB ordered that Georgia of the senate finance com- the strikers must go back to work mittee and Chairman Robert L under exactly the conditions preDoughton (D)North Carolina of vailing when they walked out the house waye and means coma constitutional Lewis said mittee issued the statement after convention ofonly the U M NV could receiving reports tit a sharp de- change the dues and declared the cline in the customaq number of existing contract would remain in early returns force until it expired next April 30 Must File Returns At plat time he promised the "The committees havink'oto do miners–'he would them a with tax legislation have been ad- "wholesome increase" get the procby vised that reports are comi14 in esses of collective refrom over the country to the effect gardless of the NV Lbargaining B's wage conthat a change will be made in the policies tax law which would preclude the trol The question left hanging by necessity of filing 1942 returns due the proceedings was whether the March 15 1943" the statement (COOt In tied 01 PA g Two) (Coiumn Ftvit) said "This assumption on the part of any taxpayer that he will not be required to file his 1942 return on March 15 1943 is erroneous In all cases that return will have to be filed and at least the first quarter payment will have to be paid No Danger of Penalty "Those filing early returns will be in no danger of being penaWASHINGTON 'Zan 15 CM— lized" of Agricultye Wickard Senator Bennett C Clark (D) Secretary told farmers Friday aAre would Missouri declared meanwhile that not be enough farm 1ab4kr to go he would "fight strenuously any around this year becausef naplan by the president or the treas- tional man power shortag4 and ury to put taxpayers on a "par- the best government agetaies tial" basis That he could do would be to meeCe said would result in "intolerable most pressing needs double taxation" This appraisal of the situation Treasury officials are said to was given by the food administrasupport a modified plan under tor in a radio talk in which farmwhich 1942 taxes would be for- ers were asked to report their given for all taxpayers in the low- 1943 labor requirements to their est income bracket — up to $2000 local agricultural war boards annual earnings — but 1942 payAt the same time the agriculments for upper bracket taxpayers ture department issued a report would be made over a two or three on the labor situation which stated that the number of workers year span on farms on January 1 was the smallest since records were started British Destroyer Lost The number was estiin 1925 at 8171000 LONDON Jan 15 (UP)—The mated noted however that The destroyer Partridge has been lost this is report of the year when time the and the next of kin of the casual- farm low and is at activity ties have been notified an ad- there is 'normally a less point need' for said miralty communique Friday hired workers night Wickard told farmers that his department would give them all the assistance possible in meeting labor needs Those needs were said to be greater than ever before because of record war food -- u) To Resume Jobs tri-distr- ict WASHINGTON W R White (D) Weber was pre- toess-leN- Act After WLB Orders Men 7 IL 1 e J"1(e Etat S ra a t P 0 e i Price Five Cents 16-194-- ' I I Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning January - A J - ' n IV' - L '- |