Show ir T - f' Tin 1 a IA 01610 War Weapon f1 The Wbather 14" Don't throw those tin cans away If your salvage committee has not yet made arrangements to pick them up save them anyway Collection plEins are being made (11' 0 C 'le C1:7 114- For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Little change in temperature Saturday with intermittent light rains Maximum temperature Fri- t :11( degrees minimum tem43 degrees (Issued by permission of military authorities) 52 day ''''' perature t - 1- Price Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning January 23 1943 Vol 146 No 101 I -- I I N ilVal 'Tr anspol 1 -: 6 laries Vanish TVith 25 Aboard ID - tiits— Craft From Pearl Harbor Missing P As t g n n Another Ship Overdue in Southwest I By United Press WASHINGTON Jan 22—Two navy transport planes carrying a total of 25 officers and enlisted men are missing the navy announced Friday night one on a flight between Pearl Harbor and San Francisco and the other on a flight from Winslow Ariz to San Pedro Cal 1' The navy first announced that a 1 giant seaplane carrying 19 per- i sons 1 10 including officer pas- sengers from Pearl Harbor has missing since fog and bad weather balked a landing in the Fan Francisco area Thursday morning Less than two hours later it revealed that the second navy craft —a cargo transport land plane with six men aboard—has been overdue since 5:40 p m (P W T) beem Thursday Pedro flight a 2 amen d on NVit h h p al ity Increase Gets Okeh of H ouse Body Committee Seeks To Revise Farm Standards Winslow-to-Sa- n Names were not given In either Ca - A widespread search is being Conducted for both ships The announcement came scarcely-24 hours after the war department revealed that the crash of a transport in Dutch four-motor- ed Gwana had killed 35 Americans en route to Africa or the middle east The plane en route to San Pedro —a twin-engicraft carrying mail and cargo—was last heard from 26 minutes out of Winslow and three It carried three officers members enlisted men—all crew The Il'ner which sought to make a landing in the San Francisco e area was a plane of the navy air transport service An exhaustive search on land and sea has so far failed to reveal any trace of the huge airliner the navy said in a special announcene four-engin- rnent Gives No Details It gave no details except WASHINGTON Jan 22 UPI— The farm bloc's drive for higher parity prices gained headway Friday when the house agriculture committee unanimouslv approved a bill to revise the parity formula to include the costs of all farm labor Including that of the farmer's family Parity is a theoretical price designed to give a bushel of wheat for example the same value in terms of purchasing power that it had in a past period favorable to agriculture Farm labor costs have not hitherto figured in the Because formula complicated farm wages have risen their inclusion now would raise the parity level Representative Pace (D) Georauthor of the revision bill it would create "no considerincrease" in the cost of living year "certainly less than $1000000000" Unalterable opposition" by President Roosevelt last fall staved off enactment of the parity change Government experts then contended it would raise parity gla said able this levels—used in war- computing that time agricultural price ceilings 12 10 laat radio contact with the plane was made early Thursday when it circled in the vicinity of San Francisco and walLunable to land then because of' fog and bad w e a ther It is believed probable the ship to and floors—by per cent and would lead to an inflationary rise in the cost of living "In 1944" Pace said "the parity change would increase the cost of living by less than 4 per cent This is due to the fact that many of the principal commodities now are selling under present ceilings at more than the recalculated parity would be" Following the committee action Representative Hope of Kansas ranking Republican member saki: "I think it is very necessary to include the cost of labor if we are going to be able to get the production we must have during the war period The farmer must be enabled to pay the labor he needs to produce food I believe the attitude of many who have opposed this legislation has may have crashed somewhere in the San Francisco fog belt which varies according to weather conditions If the weather is warm the belt usually extends a considerable dstance out to sea but only a few les inland NeWs of the accident was released as an army board inquired into th Dutch Guiana crash which cost the lives of all aboard—nine crew members and 26 passengers including Major EricKnight the author P E Foxworth assistant d:rector in charge of the New York office of the federal bureau of investigation and other prom- changed" inent army and state department officials That crash—the worst single rane disaster in American aviation history—occurred January 15 bit inaccessibility of the scene delayed the announcement for six days It was believed the disaster rn:ght have been caused by motor WASHINGTON Jan 22 Uri— trouble since the weather was reDemands from farm and other ported favorable groups for limiting the size of Jan 22 the nation's eventual armed SAN FRANCISCO and aircraft force brought a senate military navy (12Pi—Azrny committee decision Friday to re--- a mind surface vessels Friday night man power investigations open pressed all available equipment into the search for a large navy Monday to consider statutory seaplane overdue en route to San ceilings on personnel of the Francisco from Pearl Harbor Vice army navy and maritime com: mission Adrniral John W Greenslade comCoupled with this action was mander of the western sea frona vote to call Chairman Paul tier announce& V McNutt of the war man powThe northwestern sea frontier at Seattle Wash also Joined in er commission next week for questioning as to the necessity the search The area between Monterey bay of 30 recent appointments to ard Eureka Cal covering 225 regional offices in the Vir M C Chairman Reynolds (D) miles west of San Francisco was North Carolina said the cornbeing searched intensively mittee intended to insist upon of all legislation FLAGSTAFF Ariz Jan 22 fT1 jurisdiction with man power distri—Sheriff Peery Francis after a dealing bution and would "be in session g investigation announced daily in an effort to reach a Friday night he was certain a decision as early as possible" navy transport plane Lieutenant General Joseph T missing for more than 30 hours McNarney deputy chief of staff had come to rest somewhere in will be summoned ReySchultz pass which grooves the nolds announced toMonday figures 13fK)O-foSan Francisco peaks on "how many mengive the army Mt Elden north wants" and 10000-fcx- rt of here Reynolds said "we It was in the same locality that areSimilarly to try to learn ultigoing itcx army men crashed to death the mate demands of the about a year ago en route from maritime commission navy and the N M to the Pacific i I i i agencies including civilian agriculture" eon S:x men were aboard the "It will be up to congress to ravy ilh:p which took off from determine just how large an Wirslcw Ariz- at 12:30 pi m armed force we can feed and 'Thursday and was last sighted supply and whether ceilings over Winona about 16 miles east should be written into the law" of 'here 14 minutes later the chairman declared He noted - Utah Income Law's Repeal Another Measure Would Divert Cash to Schools - - Bills to repeal the state individual income tax law and to appropriate large sums from the state general fund to the uniform school fund for distribution to the various districts so they can increase salaries were introduced in the Utah house of representatives Friday The income tax repealer was introduced by Representative S W Elswood (D) Weber and likely will be referred to the revenue and taxation committee which already has before it a measure to increase exemptions under the income tax law Before reporting either one of these to the house the committee will have to decide whether it will the way and advocate igotall of the income tax or whether it will merely approve an easing of the burden by raising exemptions The bill to give the school districts more money was introduced by the education committee of which Representative A B Anderson (D) Utah is chairman It would do what educators sought some time ago to have done by executive order To Uniform Fund It would appropriate to the uniform school fund for distribution during the current school year to the 40 school districts the sum of $1316000 Of this amount $350000 would be distributed according to the formula provided for the present state equalization fund and $966000 would be apportioned on a basis of the nume ber of employes and would have to be used "solely and exclusively for the payment of salaries and wages of employes The districts would have to certify the number of employes to the state board of education and the board in turn to the state auditor before the districts could get their money For the biennium beginning July 1 1943 the bill would apand this propriate $2632000 would be distributed on the same basis as the money which the legislature would appropriate for hte current school year The bill does not attempt to appropriate beyond the biennium beginning next July 1 It further provides that no district could participate in the next biennium's allotment for salaries unless certain minimum scales were adopted Minimum Salaries Certified teachers without a degree could be paid not less than $840 a year certified teachers with a bachelor's degree not less than $960 and teachers With a master's degree not less than $1056 Another requirement would be that each teacher maintaining certification and meeting "professional growth requirements" receive an Increase of not less than $50 a year for the first six years of experience and not less than $45 a 16 years of year for "at least on Pup Four) (Column Four) full-tim- Senators 'Call Meet toStudy Limitations on Armed Forces day-lon- twin-enrri- t5 L r 1 ed ot c-- at - 1 MOPs Tackle CleansUp of Home Front - 4 - that rumors of ultimate army demands ran as high as 12- 00(000 Senator Bankhead (D) Alabama proposed Thursday that the United States concentrate on producing food and weapons leaving to its allies the furnish- ing of additional fighting men He offered a resolution calling upon congress "to reappraise the entire man power problem" with a view of fixing the maximum number of men to be inducted and asked its reference to the appropriations committee which approves funds for payment of the armed forces "We are going to ask Vice President Wallace to refer Senator Bankhead's resolution to the military aff airs committee" said "and seek juris- Reynolds diction over any future man power proposals Legislation now under consideration by the labor and other committees we'll to our comask ibe mittee by the senate after the have reother committees ported" The man power appointments are pending before the committee as a result of congressional action last session requiring senate confirmation of all man power commission appointees to posts paying $4500 or more Senator O'Mahoney (D) Wyoming who urged the calling of McNutt said the committee wanted to learn the standards by which the appointees were chosen their salaries fixed and their duties defined I 4 PORT ARTHUR Texas Jan 22 (INS)—The "M 0 Pms'a' rchhaevde organized and Friday to clean up if necessary and keep the home front spick and span also to gain recognition for themselvs are members of the Maternal Order of Patriots women who stay at home clean house cook wash dishes take care of the baby scrimp to pay taxes and buy war stamps and otherwise serve on the home front They have organized their first chapter in Port Arthur and If there is interest elsewhere they will advise women in other cities about organization and ob- Victory m Papua Fight li 1 0 rcil 0 Allies (Official) By Associated Press War-winni- four-pow- of-tid- er al round-the-worl- d Scattered Japs Pursued The only activity left around Sanananda is the stealthy pursuit of thinly scattered Japanese troops wandering through dense jungle The majority of the Japs killed in Fridays push were in a pocket about 2500 yards from the Sanabeach on the water-soake- d nanda road Considerable equipment was captured influding field guns trucks and ammunition Striking at a large concentration of ships in the harbor at Rad baul New Britain bombers flew through a high altitude snowstorm then dropped as low at 150 feet and sank four vessels totaling 24000 tons Direct hits were scored while the planes were in the midst of strong antiaircraft fire and many search- lights Japs Sacrifice 11000 in Fight At Guadalcanal ts war-victo- ry full-sca- le ed 10-da- Marine Clears Union Seamen WASHINGTON Jan 22 UP— Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B Puller of the marines just back from Guadalcanal said Friday soldiers sailors and marines unload all supply ships at the island He made the statement at an informal press conference in which he was told of a story in the Akron Beacon Journal quoting six Guadalcanal veterans as saying unicn seamen of a merchant ship lying off the island refused to unload their ship on Sunday "They've had no difficultiss of this nature in the SolOmons" Puller said "All the ships are unloaded as a matter of routine by the soldiers sailors or marines Even those brought in by merchant seamen—of which there are very few because- - most of the ships are transports—are unloaded by soldiers sailors or marines" WASHINGTON Jan 22 (21))— Chairman Vinson (D) Georgia of the house naval affairs committee said Friday night he planned to inquire into charges that marines at Guadalcanal had to unload their own supplies because a merchant ship crew declined to work on Sunday contending rules would be violated MOW 7 11-re7e- LiL I I -- ti 7-- Ado 27 (Pi Lhwolt1L 216 N 7 1 4101' - Delict T9s 7 i 1 out" - PONT N UINIIS I lif : - ) :- A'' 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"GABES :! :z ARZIS :kMARETH - LINEOP' Z 7741r-er'11 k : '& '''1b i ALGERIA i 7relL'':'' :2!::!1 ri liktha 111 k Ntmm:A i 8U-NGE- N SIF- I i'V'TGADAMES 0 IOC STATUTt MILES The right wing of the British army in Libya (black arrows) wis reported in the suburbs of Tripoli Friday night while the leftwing swung out in an effort to entrap axis forces (broken arrow) advance elements of 'which were reported inside Tunisia To the north axis units In Tunisia (black arrow) were striking westward to form a barrier covering the coastal line of retreat still-retreati- ng I Russians Sptir Allied Bombers Rostov Pttsh Blast Away As Salsk Falls At Nazi Europe Soviets Throw Arc Around Donets Basin Factory City — :: t 1 - France Belgium Norway Waters Take New Pounding f ed - - 77 i - ::::: LIBYA MA aA:gL official announcement of the the city was believed neAntn MOMS " f e p 0 It 1 --' I TRIPOLI -v 1 TUN SIA i 1 — s Ara t"7"! Allies (Official) By United Press LONDON' Saturday Jan 23 Morocco —The radio said early Saturday that British troops have occupied all important defense 'points inside Tripoli Italy's last African bastion and are hurling a constant rain of shells and bombs against remnants of the axis garrison allied-controll- MAL s " BR) N rzt--1 - FAT! ribl 1 010- -0 A ill ii !!!!!!!!!!!! i ! - ti soussu MARETH BIRES SO I 1 ' 7 " :1:!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii t 7 GA c " — R A eT 1 OUSSELTIA"‘i KAIROUAN IrEBESS-- 4401 ow Planes Hound Rommel's Army : ITAL SICILY ::::t::::::: DU FAHS ROBA -A 7I fl ampor enm Flames ::::m:::::::- I RTE BIZE a -- 7) 1 0 four-engine- Hampered by Weather Weather on the Rabaul run caused considerable trouble The big planes which are hard to manage in tricky weather encountered thunderstorms snow thick cumulus clouds and icing conditions Furthermore the antiaircraft fire and ur of searchlights have increased at Rabaul as shipping concentrations grew there Allied planes again hit Lae and Salamaua and the Japs called at Nterauke Harkin and Milne Bay no damage resulting The allied triumph announced was the climax of a Saturday step maneuvers series of which rolled The other principal objectives Japs back over the mountains toward which the united nations the and caused them to surrender in leaders are believed aiming are: and then Buna from Elimination of all points of pos- turn Gona (Continued on Page Two) sible conflict between the allies (Column Five) such as the squabble over control of French Africa Consolidated Commands Consolidation of British and American commands all the way from Scotland to Iran e offensive against A the widely regarded as Hitler's last and best chance of negating all the other allied ef11141'4 U forts By Associated Press Lastly in connection with the battle of supply lines a determined WASHINGTON Jan 22—Japan effort to furnish every one of the has lost more than 11000 men in Russia united nations—especially the land fighting on Guadalcanal and China—with weapons needed island a marine officer fresh from to make them fully effective part- the battlefront reported Friday ners in the operations and the remaining enemy force of of 1943—and possibly 1944 less than 4000 is so weak that it Prime Minister Churchill's probably could be smashed entirely broadcast of last November 29 is in 10 days by a American recalled in connection with the offensive possibility that a smashing offen"of course I can't say what the sive against Hitler's Europe is in plans of the commanding general with prospect for thison year down there now are" declared Mtge Two) Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B Puller Cohan! Ftve ) y "but I believe that in a operation using the available men there we could clean the Japanese full-scal- 0 t K dark-skinne- LONDON Jan 22 strategy for the united nations in 1943 is believed by London observers to be in the stage of final settlement at this moment with formation of a "A B C R" supreme b war council as one of its main bases Although they are without confirmation negotiations are reliably reported under way to complete Arrangements for a offensive which began in 1942 with the war's first major allied land victories in Africa the southwest Pacific and Russia First Europe Clean-U- p The belief here is that the discussions are primarily concerned with the defeat of the nxis in Eurme this year or in 194 with the full power of the units 1 nations then to be turned to the far east in a gigantic assault against Japan and every part of her empire The war obviously is entering a phase in which dovetailing the programs of the United States Britain Russia and China no longer can be left to luck and the establishment of a supreme war council Is thus viewed as a logical next (P)-- -A -- MediterraneaniiiSeaiiiiiiiiiii:" Seven hundred and twenty-fiv- e bodies have been counted and the counting continued Thus Papua became the first complete geographical unit to be won back from the Japanese It consists of about 90000 square miles and has a population of about d na300000 mostly tives London Hears ABCR Charts Winning Strategy for 1943 1 Ly ai Sanananda point Maps High War Council 4-I-- 0 1 'ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Saturday Jan 23— Exactly six months after the Japanese began their Papuan campaign with a landing at Gona New Guinea allied forces practically ended it Friday by shattering the last organized resistance around Allied 'Big 4' N 7) Last Organized 7-1' Resistance at Sanananda Ends eido-- -0 jectives - r p3 A S r ER listh Smas TI 11 TI-i-16-- 1 F010 16-1- r Bill Proposes Allies Score - tamEanIFEEMMINIMR r- British artillery and allied bombers teamed in heaving a ivighty barrage of destruction into the already blazing inner city while British warships bombarded the harbor to forestall enemy efforts to escape by sea African reports said Other allied planes were hounding the fleeing :Afrika Korps all the way into Tunisia SWISS Report City tntered Castel Benito 10 miles south of Tripoli the last important axis airdrome in Libya was reported authoritatively to be in allied hands and a Swiss broadcast said that vanguards of the Eighth army had entered Tripoli proper Axis broadcasts reporting sharp fighting' southwest of Tripoli indicated that the British had enveloped the city and were attacking from all sides imperiling the escape of the Afrika Korps rear guard which Included some of Marshal Erwin Itommel's finest I - i 1 ! troops Fight Rear Guard The daily British headquarters communique from Cairo covering events only up to Thursday night said that British troops were flghting the enemy rear guard south of Tripoli and west ofHoms where a supporting British column was driving on nthe city along the Med ite rra nes coast "Operating on a large scale our fighter-bombeand fighters continued attacks on the enemy as far west as Ben Gardane" 25 miles Inside the Tunisian frontier the - t t 777! rs ' oe-- s- Russla---(OffIci- al) By United Press MOSCOW Saturday Jan 23- -The red army captured Salsk key rail junction 110 miles southeast of Rostov and threw a half moon arc around Voroshilovgrad with one tip only 10 miles east of that industrial capital of the Donets basin soviet communiques said ''' By Associated Press LONDON Jan 22 — Swarms of communique said The smoking wreckage of axis British American and allied planes carried out extensive large-scal- e equipment jittered the from Tripoli to the Tunisian offensive sweeps over northern route Cairo dispatches said and France and Belgium Frtday In a border allied planes were taking a heavy follow-u- p to the ninth night bomb- toll of axis shipping along the shore er attack this month on Hitler's Tripolitania-Tunisia- n Ruhr valley arsenal Plaster Ships in Harbor The air ministry said seven GerAmerican 4 (Liberator) man fighters were destroyed and bombers plastered vessels in Tripthat four allied bombers and six oli harbor and torpedo bombers from Malta sank one enemy supply fighters were lost in the daylight ship and damaged two others operations that extended over 350 German-occupied miles of coastal main CAIRO 'Jan 22 territory from Ghent to the Cher- remnants of the axis(—The Afrika Korps were reported Friday night to bourg peninsula have retreated into Tunisia lenvOil installations at Terneuzen great demolition fires burning near Ghent were bombed as were ing in Tripoli German air fields at Maupertus RA F pilots returning frOrn Abbeville St Omer and on the Tripoli said great columns of Cherb cftu r g peninsula "Many smoke were rising from the port the enemy was squadrons" which included Domin- city Indicating out demolitions extensive carrying ion and other imperial fighters'as The British Eighth army adwell as American and British cov- vancing over difficult terrain was ered the bombers fighting swirl- moving ever nearer to Itairs last port and all indications ing dogfights high above the oc- colonial were that the enemy was withcupied coast Vapors from the drawing except for small rear twisting planes could be seen on guard resistance parties Pilots said that while the city the English coast the axis forces apCarrying the operations even remains intact were attempting to deparently farther stroy MI Installations that might bombers hit an enemy supply be useful to the British ship in the coastal waters off Stavanger Norway ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN German planes were reported over several districts of northeast NORTH AFRICA Jan 22 Britby American and England and over a south coast Bolstered ish reinforcements French troops town early Friday night Gerhave halted a man thrust along a mountain' range running southwestward from Pont Du Fah General Henri Giraud reported Friday night French and Britisn troops advanced "stveral miles" against one column in the Qued Kebir west of the ridge With the locality still numb coming down and with American troops also from the disaster it appeared poured into the fight have likely that a full list of the dead "stopped and partly repulsed" a would be published Saturday stronger nazi column to the east The authorities had extricated of the heights a communique rethe school register from the ported rubble but identification in Sought Control of Heights many cases was extremely difThe German advances sought ficult control of the heights to All of messages day sympathy ' mand the broad coastal plain to poured in to the stricken comthe east for the impending showcame from One munity To the down battle in Tunisia in Sussex where several two come within west had they months ago 29 boys and two south27 miles Robaa of miles ' teachers perished from a similar of Pont Du Fahs and on tt! bomb hit They too were buried west had east threatened Ousseltia 37 together (Continued on Pus Two) New York Times (Column Two) 100-mi- le - 1 - ! I B-2- Saturday Advancing 15 to 18 miles against the and above Voroshilovgrad KondrashevRussians captured skaya 10 miles east of the city and Novoaidar 32 miles northwest of it in a drive toward the sea of Azov which would cut off Rostov and the land bridge to the Caucasus The soviet threat to Rostov was intensified with the seizure of Salsk and Konstantinosk on the north bank of the Don above its confluence with the Donets and 65 miles east of the great gateway city The fall of Salsk removed the last major obstacle from the path of an advance directly against Rostov and also laid open the way drive down the Stalingfor a rad-Tikhoretsk railway to the Rostov-Bak- u line up which the German army of the Caucasus was fleeing After a special communique had reported the capture of Salsk and Mikoyan Shakhar deep in the Caucasus 75 miles southeast of Armavir the Friday midnight buldoz(- Tanned and rugged in appearance although he was wounded seven times in asingle battle last November 8 Colonel Puller gave a first-han- d account of the American fighting for tontrol of the strategic Solomon islands in an informal press conference at the navy department January 1 The airfield which was the great prize the United States captured letin announced the seizure of Continued on Page Two) when marines invaded the south (Column Three) eastern 'Solomons last August has been expanded so that it can now handle our heaviest and fastest bombers he said and new flight strips have been built The army was taking over under command of Major General Alexander M Patch Jr when Puller left and he said it was his underNew York Times-Sa- lt Exclusive La—Ce standing that all marines were to Tribune be withdrawn LONDON Jan 22 Forty-tw- o children and six teachers victims of Wednesday's school 15 bombing will share a common grave This was announced Friday as the death toll was set with probable finality at 48 A joint funeral service will LIMA Peru Jan 22 ' (UP)— Pan American-Grac- e Air Lines be held Wednesday—one week announced Friday night that one from the time a German high I I tore the of their planes with 15 persons explosive i aboard 11 passengers and four building apart while most of crew members had not reported those killed were lunching The its position since 3 p m Friday scene will be the little church when a radio message said it was of the neighborhood where most over Ocona about 400 miles from of the youngsters went to SunLima day school 73-mi- le torpedo-carrying-Australi- t i ! tt Airliner With Is Overdue virtually - iI ' vt F i i - - an twin-prong- - ed ' London Plans Joint Funeral For 48 Killed By Nazi Bomb - ' I - JT1 l' - g I - f v b - - t clam-Albuquer- 1 Pet-wor- th Copyright by - A rito I i — I ii i i- (t - - -- 1 - s s |