Show tr----- - War Weapon 1 1 non't throw those tin cans away If' your salvage committee has not yet made arrangements to pick 4 them up save them anyway lection p:ans are being made 1 : c:" Col- a - 11 i I - I5 I ri r: 1 1 - ' 1 l' I P 1 ' OPP —it The Weather vt31 11 t jr? 11 1 " ' I 1 1 1 1 11 1 I l' 11 it - ' ii v I t ti t t k k I t I 1 - 1 - t For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Occasional light snow Tuesday i with little change in temperature Maximum temperature Monday 34 degrees minimum temperature 14 degrees (Issued by permission of military authorities) i 1 I - t t - ' t ! 116 No 10 t N'01 ttah's i - 1 t Senate Gels Defense Powers Bill ' - 1 on-Industr- - it' ( 4 Would Broaden ktathority of ()flicials in Crisis - I V i 1 4 1 s'ts - 1 production of books records and Oocurnents of individuals or corTorations for purposes of the surveys or investigations Anyone to appear answer quesrefusing tions or produce records would be guilty of a misdemeanor 3 To prescribe Uniform air raid znals designate air raid shelters control provide for evacuations vehicular and pedestrian traffic control congregation of persons in public places and lighting and noises of all kinds 4 To prescribe and direct activities in so far as they relate to the war effort for salvage programs prevention of waste of materials conservation strategic of transportation training and supply of labor utilization of inCividual plants health and medical care nutrition housing (including use of existing public and pr'vate facilities) rehabilitation education welfare child carereor- eation fo r industrial worTirs Juld members of the armed forces promotion of rationing and price control programs 1 1 1 1 Presents Contrast In contrast to previous sessions wilen removal of the judiciary has a conttrovetrsial issue the city lOhlt e passed without a dissentrig vote bne of its effects J-- If pasled by the house and signed by the envernor will be to intCarin-loct "n Pare Four) t C0i1117111 I 0 Thrte'l t ' ? 14 ''' 1- s t -- tz s f I 1 ti - :' $ :'' ' : - t t ' '' : -- 0- "i ::' ' ' - ' tP V1 '44:4-:- ' vf ' I if ' i - t e I " r -- 7 t C A I : - J Fawcett left manager of the National Wool Marketing corporation and Allan C Emery president of the Boston Wool Trade association who took opposing sides on proposed government purchasing of the 1943 wool clip Monday at the National Wool Growers' association convention 'Wool Units Clash on Plan For U S to Purchase Clip Ty Asstwiated Press WASHINGTON Jan 25—StrivIng for a badly needed increase of 7 or 8 per cent in food production the government will ask some 3500000 persons to leave their work in towns and cities temporarily this spring and summer to help solve the farm labor 6"-1- - This plan to mobilize a voluntary "land army" for the planting and harvesting of record food crops for the war effort WRS announced jointly by Fond Administrator Claude R Wickard and Man Power Commissioner Paul V McNutt at a press conference Monday The plan follows demands from farm state members of congress that farm labor shortages be remedied Only Monday Senator Pepper (D) Florida arose on the senate floor to make a sharp attack on the war man power com- mission and denartment of agriculture for failure he said to "take hold of the farm labor open-discussion- on Tuesday as "expressions of the views and recommendations of the industry" Representing a growers' cooperative C J Fawcett of Boston manager of the National Wool Marketing association said bluntly he favored an outright government purchase program at or above present ceiling prices with the wool to be handled through normal trade channels which would receive stipulated fees Opposes U S Purchase e wool merchant AlAn lan C Emery president of the Boston Wool Trade association and member of the firm Emery & Conant company just as bluntly declared "I don't believe in the government taking over anything IIike my independence and I ike to do business as the good Lord shows me I have been through every depression since Grover Cleveland and I don't like to lay my problems on the back of the government" Mr Emery cautioned that if the government should take over the wool clip the growers would lose interest in their wool as soon as it went out of their hands "Bonded wool brought here from other countries" he continued "can easily be sent abroad after the war but if huge quantities of domestic wool are stored the same condition as prevailed after the last war is invited Then the ' quartermaster general auctioned off stocks of wool and the price went down75 per cent" advised growers to retain interest in wool they produce and see to it that it goes quickly into BALTIMORE which is supposed to approve in advance speeches of all administration officials issued this state- ment: "The 0 NS' I did not clear the speech that Rubber Director Jef fers delivered this afternoon nor did it have any advance knowledge that he was to deliver such a speech" (On his return to Washington Jeffers when informed of the 0 W I's action told the UnitedPress his remarks were made dur- ing an open forum period that he no prepared address and therecould not have it cleared i fore ha—d I through ("I was asked what was holding up the rubber program so I told them" he said "I can't see what they could object to in what I said I only remarked that army and navy expediters were gettinc in the way of production and loafing on the job" (He added that he spoke for himself—not for Nelson He said he had no quarrel with the army and navy and was sure the military officials would correct the situa- tion if they were aware of it with ("I'veCogot to keep rowing efi on PR Four production Sees Peak Passed Mr expressed his views at the Emery invitation of R C Rich of Burley Idaho immediate past president of the National Wool A PP! Four) f I Tray Studies 25 "so-calle- e Se et t Jan (UP)—Rubber Director William Jeffers declared Monday in a speech promptly disowned by the office of war information that d expediters—the army and navy loafers" were preventing smooth operation of the war production program Jeffers made his charge In addressing wildly cheering delegates to the sixth general assembly of the Council of State Governments Two hours later the office of war information in Washington old-lin- Column Md Plan ge ntinu (Column Six) s to Funnel Demobilized Men Into Jobs CHICAGO Jan 25 CD—Proposing a postwar selective service system "in reverse" to operate as a job placement agency Robert P Patterson undersecretary of war promised Monday would "do its night the army best to see no man is mustered out of military ranks into a bread line" There will be millions of men to demobilize he said in a speech prepared for the technological institute of Northwestern university and although the army alone cannot guarantee civilian jobs for all of them it does intend to make the transfer to civilian life with as little econoic dislocation as possible y "We may be a peowe have shat the time ple by war-wear- tered the axis" he said "There will be an urge to let down after the fast pace we maintained to win this war to dump men back into civilian to let them find a job as best they can and where they can "But the army will not take that easy way Its responsibility is too great As I say we will try to maintain a selective service system in reverse" Patterson explained that war department records catalog each man according to occupation or profession and the demobilization plan would be to inform men about to leave the army of job opportunities in their own field—"it would be up to them of course whether they cared to take advantage of it" willy-nill- y life I I 1 I I Aneffort will be made to enroll "all who'll volunteer—not volunteer to work without pay but to leR VC a more lucrative job to go out and save a crop to help the war effort" Wickard said explaining it would work this way: Questionnaires will be sent out to such persons as store clerks to determine those able and willing to take temporary farm work and those volunteering will be solicited in personal interviews to take parPage Colitinitei (Column Two) ticular seasonal farm work Those taking the jobs under tentative plans would get 30 cents an hour or the wage prevailing in the area where they do the farm work whichever is higher Recruitment would be confined principally to the immediate area of the farms needing the workers to avert housing and transportation problems and get quickest mobilization in emergencies Allies---- ( Of f icial ) School children would be drawn into the land army by arrangePress Associated By ment with local educational ofALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ficials to adjust school terms and vacation or holiday dates to free AUSTRALIA Tuesday Janto 26— the Allied bombers returned pupils for farm work when needed attack on Rabaul scoring hits on two Japanese ships MacArthur's General Douglas headquarters announced Tuesday Heavy bombers stryck anew in a low altitude raid penetrating severe antiaircraft fire and a screen of searchlights the noon communique said One of the ships a probably loaded with munitions KANSAS CITY Jan 25 ()11 — exploded when hit A direct hit was scored on anCharles F Kettering head of Gen- Motors' research department other vessel of medium size at the doesn't see ahy flash progress south end of the harbor blasting toward a "wonder age" after the a large hole in its side Thus allied bombers maintained war' "There'll be a little hump in the a merciless assault on the big Jap line once the war frees base on New Britain island where progreft was reUS " the inventor said in an inter- - 20000 tons of shipping view "but generally speaking the ported destroyed over the week flow of invention will be slow but end sure as in the past" " We hear glowing accounts of cars of the future for example I U-Bo- at don't know of anybody who's work- ing at it right now But when they do and have done their best I predict the cars America produces will be the best in the world" WASHINGTON Jan 25 (Ill— Kettering thinks basic tools for inwar the are The navy announced Monday that settling already vented No dazzling "secret weap- - a small British merchant vessel on " will settle it he added "What we've got as is is plenty was torpedoed and sunk by an he said "I have an idea if just a enemy submarine early in January few of the important people of in the south Atlantic off the east Germany could be smuggled into coast of South America Surthis country to have a look at our vivors have been landed at Miami war plants it would shorten the war We've got more than what it Fla takes" The captain of the vessel was rin-r- 71 ITrp 1 T -1-1g116 -- AI Allied Planes Blast Ships in Rabaul Harbor oft-bomb- I nventor Sees No Miracles Followinif War 2000-tonn- er i Sinks British Ship taken prisoner aboard the W H Kell of Carlisle England chief officer of the merchantman reported Seven of the crew of 44 U-bo- at Military Courtesy Reaches New Hith COFFEYVILLE Kan Jan 25 cn—Private Wesley E Lundeen of St Paul Minn was walking along eating an ice cream cone An officer passed in a car Lundeen in shifting it from the right to left hand dropped the cone but made a snappy salute Not to be outdone in military courtesy the officer stopped and handed Lundeen a nickel for other cone ( an- were killed when the torpedoes struck he said Survivors reached shore in a damaged lifeboat 12 hours after the attack The sinking raised to 602 the number of announced united nations and neutral ship losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor 11 I"yr 1 s iire:ir-TFTILdus---ft- te - I -- i 41" Aott 771 'L tr' (lb 0i - Li 1 1 P Trrille 1" iz) : 011: 0-777- t Flight Aclii)öss Turilsiá - 1 - Allies Forni illaster Council To Lead War Say Experts - e Troops Within Striking Distance ibo- o- I i I Allies---(Offieial) public at Salt Lake time Tuesday No indication Of its nature can be given at present (Full details will be carried in Wednesday's Tribune) The British Eighth army commanded by General Sir Bernard L Montgomery under supervision of General Sir Harold Alexander the middle east commander is nearing a junction with the British First army the U S Fifth army and the French all under the direction of Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower the American Recent speculation has centered On General George C Marshall U S army chief of staff as commander in chief of allied forces in the European theater Walter Farr cabled to the Daily Mail that "keen observers" in Washington predicted the Marshall appointment He also said i Admiral Sir Percy that Vice Noble head of the British adWashingmiralty delegation in in ton might be placed charge of a united campaign against submarines fly Associaled Press LONDON Jan 25—The united nations were reported Monday night in diplomatic circles to have agreed on a formula for some kind of a supreme council to direct and unify efforts to win the war in 1943 British United States Rusi sian and Chinese officials silent on the grand strategy talks known to have been under way but it is no secret that some extremely important announeement affecting the allied conduct of the war is imminent It isno secret either that a unification of strategy has been high on the allied agenda for months nor that as part of this being unity great attention iscoordgiven to the problem of inating allied armies in north Africa under a single command e(' ‘- - Yanks Score French Battle Nazi Troops New Gains Iii Solomons itkt Marseille Village Captured On Guadalcanal Wide Area Damaged U S—(Official) By Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 23 — By air by sea and by land American fighting men going into action in the Solomons over the week end made important territorial gains against beleaguered Japson Guadalcanal island and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy over a wide- scattered area The operations a navy communique disclosed Monday resulted in capture of the village of Kokumbona seven miles west of Guadalcanal air field where enemy stores and equipment were ly seized In addition fuel and ammunition dumps on l's:cilombangara island 190 miles northwest of Guadalcanal air field were wiped out by bombardment from United States air and surface forces and a large Japanese destroyer and a cargo ship were bombed by United States aitcraft in the vicinity of Shortland island 201 Japs Killed where latest On Guadalcanal reports place the number of enemy troops at about 4000 the action resulted in the killing of 201 Japanese and the capture of 40 pris: oners Naval spokesmen said the ait action reported Monday taken with that announced Sunday from General MacArthur's headquarters comprised the greatest air activity of the war to date in the and southwest Pacific south theater - Resist Removal of Thousands From Port District LONDON Jan 25 CFI—Revolting Frenchmen barricaded themselves inside their homes in the old port district of Marseille Monday night and began fighting German troops who called up tanks and artillery reports from Switzerland said The revolt in restless France broke out after German occupation authorities and their puppet Vichy regime headed by Pierre Laval ordered the evacuation and razing of the entire area of 40000 persons 40000 Arrested D N B dispatches to Madrid and Lisbon said that 40000 persons already had been arrested but a few hours before the Vichy radio said only 6000 had been rounded up A Reuters dispatch from Zurich said that an undetermined number of Frenchmen dug up their guns fortified their homes as best they could and began firing on every German soldier approaching The German troops then summoned artillery and tanks and began besieging the French in a fight in the labyrinthian sector of narrow dark streets The Marseille fighting highlighted the increasing trouble encountered by the Germans and their Vichy regime throughout the house-to-hou- se country Fight Secret Groups The Berlin radio broadcast a Vichy dispatch late Monday adthat the Marseille drive mitting was "not only against ordinary criminals but also against various (Continued on Pare Two) (Column Three) Supplies to Allies Exceed Eight Billion Mark Lend-Leas- e WASHINGTON Jan 25 (A')— The United States has now outstripped the war production rate of every other allied nation and has supplied $8253000000 worth e of goods and services to other countries from March 11 1941 to December 31 1942 lend-leas- Lend-Leas- e Administrator Ed- ward R Stettinius Jr reported to congress Monday e The furnishing of aid declined from a peak of $915000000 in October to $810- 000000 in November and $757- 000000 in December the report disclosed But the total for those three months was twice the total for all of 1911 and the full year's lend-leas- total in 1912 of $7009000000 was more than five times that ( of 1941 - t Press I :' ' troops had thrust into the town of Maknassy capturing 80 axis prisoners in an area only 33 miles short of the Gulf of Gabes and Brigadier General Jacques Le Clerc's headquarters reported that the Fighting French were now operating west of Tripoli and had only 50 miles more to go to reach the Mediterranean LeCleres communique as broadcast by theBrazzaville radio said the Fighting French had entered the Jebel Nefusa a long range of hills 30 to 100 miles south of Tripoli and extending into eastern Tunisia about the same distance from the Mediterranean A communique from General Henri Giraud's headquarters said French troops supported by U S armored forces had improved their positions north and northeast of Ousseltia and repulsed a German attack to the east in the mountains "with heavy losses" This action ' was in northwest Tunisia Behind Mareth Line Rommel's retreat from Libya meanwhile had taken most of his forces some 60 miles within TuField dispatches reported nisia that all his Italians and the greater corps were bepart of his Germanline in southern hind the Mareth Tunisia and a critical phase was effort approaching in orthe allied weakto cut him down seriously en him short of any juncture with Von Arnim There was nothing to indicate that the American action at Maknassy was more than a raid in force and U S military sources here warned against expecting an blow to the Romearly mel flank But the possibilities were nevertheless clear Germans Send Taunt Maknassy incidentally was hit after the Germans had dropped a note: "Why won't the Americans come out and fight?" Von Arnim's effort to throw up a mountain barrier between the main allied forces and the coast had run into serious difficulties allied headquarters declaring that the German advance in the Otisseltia valley had been stopped While most of Rommel's force was reported behind the Mareth line the possibility that he would attempt any serious or prolonged stand there was discounted Military observers believed he would leave only a rather substantial rearguard there and that his intention was to avoid any pitched battle until he could join with Von Arnim Attack Axis Airdromes At both ends of the Mediterranean battle line allied bombers and fighters continued heavy attacks on axis airdromes ports and troop columns i 1 t I '' ' I i :l'' ' I - full-sca- le In the Mediterranean the - cam- the admiralty's reporting that British submarines had sunk five more axis vessels British headquarters at Cairo announced allied air attacks on enemy shipping trying to slip from Zuara harbor west of Tripoli on axis air fields 60 miles within Tunisia on enemy transports strung out westward from the Libyan frontier on two enemy ships torpedoed and set afire off Sicily and on Sicily itself From allied headquarters in north Africa heavy attacks on Bizerte on Sousse harbor on an axis air field near Medenine about paign of attrition sharpened One tank and combat plane out of every three built in this country In 1942 was shipped to our allies but this took account e not only of but of outright foreign purchAes from us Lend-leas- e countries bouglit $6900000000 worth of goods from us between March 1941 and December 1942 while goods e in exported under that time came to $5959000000e It was in March 1942 that exports started to exceed other exports Goods transferred (but not under lend- ? nlys ‘:(12prorrhtedlin '11 came to e $6547679000 and services to $1703054000 4() make the $8232738000 total lend-leas- lend-leas- lend-leas- nairi I r raid LONDON Jan by American troops to within striking distance of Marshal Itommel's line of retreat along the Gulf of Gabes in Tunisia and sharp progress of the Fighting French columns seeking to hit his flank were disclosed Monday as the bulk of his army poured into Tunisia for a possible rendezvous with the forces of General von Arnim Allied headquarters in north Africa announced that American important announcement is expected to be made 8 p in 1 25—A By Associated Press n 2 1 AEF and French By Associated Baku-Rosto- M - (Continued on cruitment drive" Jeffers Assails War Efforts of Expediters s 2— "v pun association Monday atthe Hotel Utah Streamlined and confined to conbusiness matters the two-da- y vention is featuring a series of at the conclusion of which committees are preparing statements for consideration By United Press MOSCOW TOesday Jan sives from Leningrad to the Caucasus Stalin revealed the extent of the soviet winter drives in an order of the day to troops along the vast 1200-mil- e front as the high command announced the final of Voronezh liberation upper hinge of whole southern sector and the recapture of still more towns in converging drives in the Caucasus and Donets valley 'Serious° Victory Won Thousands of inhabited localities have been overrun in the red a army's winter onslaught and "serious victory" has been won Stalin said of our troops continues" he said "Forward for the rout of the German invaders and their expulsion from the regions of our motherland!" (Stalin's order did not give any figures on the number of Germans killed or wounded Use of the word "destroyed" was in the military sense—that the divisions had been "destroyed" as effective military units Normally 102 divisions would total about 1530000 men) The English version of Stalin's i London by the order distributed in Russian Tass agency used ''routed" instead of "destroyed") Push Back Nazi Flank The regular soviet Monday midnight communique revealed that soviet troops in the Caucasus had pushed the German left flank back westward to within 40 miles of Kropotkin and Tikhoretsk the two most vital junctions on the v railroad still in German hands The capture of the railroad station and district center of ByelayaGlina on the Stalingrad-Novorossis- k railroad places the soviets 40 miles northeast of Tikho(only ou Two) problem" "What we need is a clear cut man power problem" Pepper de- Growers Dealers Air Divergent Views As National Convention Opens Boston Man Sees Decline in Army Demand Russia---(Offici- al) Premier Josef Stalin announced Tuesday that the red army has destroyed 102 axis divisions captured 200000 prisoners and advanced upward of 248 miles in the first two months of winter offen- shortage 5 I Stalin Claims Also Count 200000 Captives clared Wickard said the land army program would be based on patriotic appeals to town and city dwellers not engaged in activities directly connected with the war effort to I some time on the farm at cents or farm pay-- 30 regular The controversy between wool dealers and wool growers more an hour Principally they will be used to relative to proposed government purchase of all domestic wool as harvest perishable food and vegit leaves shearing corrals flared at the opening session of the etable crops Wickard said there seventy-eight- h annual convention of the National Wool Growers' would be "perhaps a training program in conjunction with the re- I I con- ? 000 0 1 unnsdiction Other powers specifically '? INN ' 'A ferred upon the defense council by the bill are: 1 To make' food land labor business and industrial surveys 2 To compel by subpena- the attendance of witnesses and the t' - to give the governor council and gov- erning bodies of political sub- Other Powers 3500000 Flinn Volunteers Sought by U S - -- Unfavorably The senate committee on health and labor reported out unfavorably si nieksure (S 13 23) to require lsbor organizations to file annual 1nancial statern'ents with the state industrial commission The senate passed on final readIng a bill to extend the terms of city judges from four to six years and provide for their election in the nonpartisan municipal electnons instead of the partisan gen1945 eral elections beginning in read-in:The senate passed on final a bill (S Bi 10) permitting consolidations of Utah and outside corporations Companion Measure 'The defense bill a companion to four introduced last Friday was offered by Senator Alonzo F Holokin (Di Third one of the state's cielegates to a recent conference on civilian defense sponsored by the Council of State Government in Los Angeles The measure amends the existtrg civilian defense acts and adds One of these four new sections that: provides -All orders rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this act shall have the full force and effect pf law when in the event cf issuance by the governor council or other agency of the state a copy thereof is filed with the secretary of state or if promul— gated by a political subdivision of the tate or agency thereof when filed in the office of the clerk of the political subdivision for which the-- Same has been promulgated All existing laws ordinances rules and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this act or of any order rule or regulation issued under the authority of this act shall be suspended during the period of time and to the extent that such conflict exists" Another new section authorizes tne council to use the services and (such as fire equiprnert) of any political subdivision cf the state (such as Salt Lake (ity) anywhere within the state 'for the purpose of rendering aid in cases of disaster" In such cases flowerer the council would be required to reimburse the subdivision whose equipment was so used outside its own territorial 4 E'' '7' darn-Repo- rt 0 '''''' 'i --- d- 14 -- - the day included: The house received two bills to eitlaw the-- secondary boycott and hot cargo" in labor disputes and to provide that parties in7ured by the practices may seek in:unctive relief and sue for 1 '1-:-- r ed -'' - 4 divisions of the state emergency rDwers to promulgate orders with the full force of law and to suspend existing laws which conflict with such orders was Introduced into the Utah senate Monday Other major developments of 1 - i6' -- o I ' ' ' A r 7 1 6-7- - 7 Policy Millions Face '102 German' A 1 Call to Duty Divisions Tri ri Russ Lost to hi Land Army y '' 1 - I I Views Clash Price Five Cents Morning January 26 1913 City' Utah Tuemlay Salt Lake 1 t I lend-leas- N miles within Tunikia and on enemy transport columns were reported An allied spokesman declared that 25 to 30 axis planes were believed to have been destroyed aground in the Medenine attack 60 : i I c:- ) I I - r i |