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( A At ' I )1 c'---Jp'- (7 i")b' 4''''''ti - dippr--04- - - 4 Vol 1 16 No 11 1 Salt Millions in Receive Welfare lleastires Kill Easier Divorces d °WA: Abollsh the present county i elfare boards and place adminls- in the hands of the county !lrnmisslors Provlie for county supervis- boards made up substantially e same as the present boards Fut with powers only to advise ' : TON ides :terit'System 3 Providefor merit system se-- ction of personnel to the extent quired by the federal governi ent in order for the state to ualify for the federal grants 4 Set up a minimum grant for 'd size recipients of S40 per month ir the duration of the emergency e figure reverting to $30 after 111 emergency 5 Fix a top monthly income for ihe old age recipients including tate assistance and other income 1 n I2 By Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb 4 (1"1— Chairman Paul V McNutt announced Thursday night that the war man power commission would take control of the hiring of labor in shortage areas a step expected to freeze mil:ions ) persons to war industries or other tasks deemed essential Under the system McNutt said the man power commission or agencies approved by it will furnist- workers to employers on a priority system based on the importance of the employer in the war effort New barriers will be raised to prevent workers from vital occupations shifting to less essential ones and limits will be placed on the authority of employers to fire workers asthe man signed to them through power commission The controls it annlunced will go into effect as soon as practicable in critical labor - areas" scattered the country The latest list of such critical areas shortage throughout i (Continued on Pnire Elght (Column Four) names 32 lo issued Thursday ) -- -‘ Railroads Bow Tax Plan Fair To An Ruud T Icc on Use of Tells T - I Pi-ofit- s 0- As-You-- Sponsor Denies Scheme Favors Capitalists To Better Lines And Retire Debts WASHINGTON Feb 4 frl — WASHINGTON Feb 4 fir') — The railroads told the interstate Beardsley Ruml pressed his income tax plan On the commerce commission Thursday u-go they would comply with an "ad- house ways and means committee monition" to use revenues from Thursday as a device which would be fair to rich and poor alike and increased rates and fares for bet- asailed the treasury's substitute terment to the:r plants and retire- proposal as imposing an intolerment of debt able burden of double taxation" d R V Fletcher vice president of Gesturing with his the as he before stood Railspectacles the Association of American a like dais committeemen's lawyer carriers in were roads said the arguing a ease in court the chairaccord with the general purpose of man of the New York federal rea recent commission inquiry as to serve bank emphatically explained the legality feasibility and de- that his plan would not "forgive" f $50 a year's taxes for anyone by drop6 Direct the public welfare de- -' sirability of such a plan arid would artment to place major emphasis retiort "from time to time" on how ing the yearand1942 asthea basis for assessment that capitalist n rehabilitation through state the admonition was being ob- would benefit no more than his ofnet count:v make-wor- k projects served fice boy 7 Direct the welfare depart7Fletcher opened the railroads' Difference Not Great to 7ent ''provide social service nd guidance only to those in testimony in support of continu"For those in the upper brackreed of it as demonstrated by ance of rate increases authorized ets" contended "it will make their- Own request for such serv- in 1912 The increases are under much he less practical difference than cefire by price stabilization agencies might appear First because like Here la the way the amount of of the government who contend anybody else as long as they have be ':he grant would determined: their income they continue to pay t A budget covering the needs of they are inflationary Fletcher suggested that if the their taxes and when they die ach redolent would bemade up commission decided on such a what otherwise would have been 'Whatever this budget might be use of revenue for the policy as income tax on the the aged cerson would be entitled increases no actual orderfrom would payable previous year's income is to the SIO grant unless he or she be necessary had other income which combined subject to estate taxes in his high"An admonition in the commis- est brackets" 'with the S40 exceeded the budget sions report" itshe said "clearly In cases where the budget Wa S forth views will be In Event of Death 0xceeded the S40 could be reduced setting observed" faithfully he said "that we shall by the amount that total income While not questioning the com- all "Notice" go along paying our income exceeded the bueiget In no event mission's authority to make such before only they eould the grant plus all income a a condition of reten- taxe3 as we ahave requirement current basis The fron- - other sources exceed $50 per tion of the increases —10 per cent will be on month on passenger fares and roughly 6 treasury will also go along getting revenue per cent on freight- - Fletcher sub- its "The Aids 14250 Aged only difference is that mitted that such a requirement ContinuM on Pate SIX) At present the public welfare was not desirable (Column lour) department is giving assistance to The top 14250 aged persons amount being paid to anyone (for a family unit is $85 Twenty are receiving above S50 per month and 326 above S40 per month The average deduction for —other income" is S293 that the Atlantic charter and WASHINGTON Feb 4 CFI— The proposed bill would therefunited nations declaration r'ire serve to reduce 20 grants Senator Gillette (D) Iowa pro- I the not are binding on the United might reduce 326 grants and would posed Thursday that the united States because they are not increase 13904 grants Atnations declaration and the formal treaties ratified by the Assuming continuance of existlantic charter on which it is senate ing conditions as to deductions based be embodied in a formal Gillette introduced his resolufor "other income" and no intion independently of the foreign crease in the total number receivtreaty He introduced a resolution relations committee of which he ing assistance the increased cost is a member He proposed four calling upon President Roosevelt per month would orapproximate a to negotiate immediately S110000 per month $1680000 points to be included in the would ''postwar peace charter' in ortreaty They were that the sigper year Of this one-hastate der to give substance to the natories: be federal funds and one-ha17 Agree they "neither seek Atlantic charter declarations funds nor desire aggrandizements terThe bills were introduced by formulated by Mr Roosevelt and Priine Minister Churchill and ritorial or otherwise" the senate social relations and re2 Promise to respect and apLef committee It was reported subscribed to by the other that they do not represent the united nations prove "the right of all people "As it is now! Gillette exideas of the public welfare comunder proper opportunity to mission as to needed revisions choose the form of government plained "there is no substantial under which they will live" and frame to the expression of opinMine Lease Bills ion in the Atlantic charter and agree to countenance "the resTbe three mine leasing bills there is no guarantee that the toration of sovereign rights and (S B 40 41 and 42) were passed self government to those who declarations arrived at in that en final reading without opposiwill be crystallizecL have been deprived of this agreement tion after Senator Lynn S Richinto action after the war” choice" ard CDi Salt Lake City had He said also believed that 3' "Collaborate in the formuoffered some safeguarding amenda treaty would thwart Japanese of a just peace embodylating rnents Effect of the amendments the Atlantic formulae for postwar colthat ing propaganda was to require that in any leaslaboration to maintain peace charter declarations applied only and security throughout the ing arrangement either the lessee- to the Atlantic and not to the or the lessor must carry unem-Pacific area world" workmen's 4 Recognize the necessity for "If a treaty were signed" he plorment insurance Said "its application would be compensation insurance and occollaboration "to secure for all The peoples of Asia cupational disease insurance for world-wid- e nations as economic advancethe employes of the lessee ment improved labor standards then would be assured they Sponsors of the measures which would have the same measure of social security and access on were worked out jointly by 'mine security and the same right of fair and equal terms by all peoto the raw materials and employers workers and govern- - self determination that is promples ment agencies were Senator Richof to ised channels of the the rest the world" the international er1 PP Nino) (Cart-r- Some senatorshave contended world" (Coiumo Two) k I paves-yo- -- horn-rimme- -- -- tax-pape- r's -- 4- 1--- 1 l Senate Resolution Calls For Postwar Peace Charter U S lf lf es i 1 t A - 4 e ' ' - U By United RV Di -- rz::: i i 37LLT:i L 1 -- y A :‘ -- Tv 77- :La - -- ka r -- 7 ' ' LillillT 7: t - r71 1 71 - L4 - e -- TSS -- Japanese J (r - II It 1 STALINGRAD Press aus-- air attacks 010 on BERDYANS YEISK-'4- 0ocm"! N KUSFIC14"hAEVK atodbwomortofr I t1 r:1--k 1 1 st::-- 0 -- TI KHORETSK 7011IMEA 110111111 SEVASTOPPL ' 'Tromo- 10-1 477 )141 :- - NIOVOySISK A ' TUAPSE: -- ALSK - 410AKRASNODAR 1 ' ) -: - ' z P "Z:' r'ipe It 'i::'--r- tia 1) 0 11 0 t I e' ' LLAL LI - ' L A C K '''' 7 q14 r 44000 - i-- - - Russla--(Officia- - i l) Pres By Associated peninsula a hazardous route on which they certainly would be subA tilir S E A 'Zn jected to the full fury of a red 01 :1111411741 'Illibssi::x army land sea and air pummel:1 ing ft4 141 4' GROZNY aIAN'14474' i e Make Astounding Gain S - ' The soviet counteroffensive has POTI S rolled forward at such astounding speed that it has surpassed even the most optimistic expecV' BATUM tations of Joseph Stalin and his StkteiSUN teo three-hou- r on assault red army commanders who are TIFLIS devastating Ruin in the Solomons where sevnow raising their sights in the eral large fires were started All belief that the German army is 4 are air and naval bases which the London informants rebeaten Japanese obviously would be using ported 44"1:1 in the intense activity) This hint that the red army is A naval spokesman to drive forward in a 150 100 50 asserting preparing 9 the a ir raids on Guadalcanal were continuing offensive that may all part of the general picture STATUTE MILES change drastically in a few months even the present favorable allied pointed out that in view of the in a of between and Kushchelka advancing situation was given by unnamed triangle (1) Kagainitskaya trapped nature of the action now in prog- Recapture Russian columns and the Sea of Azov Lonress in the entire area it would (arrows) placed the red army menancingly informants thoroughly familiar be unwise to tell the enemy what don heard reports that Russian warships (arnear Rostov Thursday and threatened to split with the eastern position as five It has or has not been able to acreported: row and symbol) were pounding fleets massed new developments were said Caucasus corridor at the narrow German-hel- d Ger1 These informants complish Yeisk soviet sources said If Russians reach by the Germans in the Novorossisk area (2) reckwere satellites and her many Nuisance Attacks a Possible evacuation point Yeisk German troops below Rostov might be oned to have lost more than 000000 men- since NoVember 13 lie said the night raids might indicate "nuisance" attacks when the red army began its general counterattack-Town-s (A Tokyo broadcast heard in Chungking said the United States Captured had 10 battleships 10 aircraft car2 Moscow announced capture riers and 20 heavy cruisers in the of the Caucasian towns of SteSolomons and said that the Japanese fleet was "numerically inferominskaya and Kanevskaya each rior" It has been the technique only 38 miles from the Sea of Azov below Rostov and said the red of Japanese propagandists to rehad broken through the first army port the enemy had greater num—Jo4 YORK Feb (ID NEW line of new nazi defenses south of bers when preparing to announce Formations Action Land Along Large Rostov seph E Davies former ambaslosses to the empire) 3 With this smash toward the a to sador The official said Wednesday "it Russi suggested Nazi at Strike Front Tunisia Azov the German Cauof Sea is safe to say that Japs are trying on "March the Thursday night casian army seemed trapped their best to take Guadalcanal" of Time" radio program the posSubmarineWorks Again Slows Down around Novorossisk and Krasnoand it has been announced that sibility that Adolf Hitler is dead dar with escape apparently posboth sides have suffered losses "These days of mourning and sible only through the Crimean 5 (UP) reFeb LONDON Friday Thursday's communique Allies—(Official) tarbeaxis in at R A peninsula struck vealed that an American plane— F —The grief Germany supposedly 4 By Associated Press The Berlin radio itself rein for the second successive day— night cause Thursday of defeat the Europe gets Stalingrad suc! 4 New LONDON Feb ported a Russian marine landing for the third night in a row strafed enemy barges near Cape and the fact that Hitler did not Gerof from op the Taman peninsula which cor on attention the its cesses in allied northwest the campaign Esperance turningto make his tenth anniversary threatened to block an escape axis ner of Guadalcanal her Italy commupartner sea many axis !attrition against to the Crimea Before the Japs launched their nications—the and attacking other points in across destruction of 14 speech last week suggests the 5 The Russians announced in d latest "major effort" to regain- and perhaps 16 axis ships in the possibility that Hitler is dead" territory a special communique that ancontrol of the entire Solomon- Mediterranean by submarine and he said Al other German army- once estiarea the number of enemy effec- bomber actiOn over a period of "But suppose Hitler is dead" mated at nine divisions or more By Associated Press tives on Guadalcanal was esti- - several days — Were announced 4 — Large foradded: "The nazi Davies Feb LONDON than 100000 men had been party men 3000 mated at Scarcely as land action in Tunisia ForThursday and cut in two west of American of and Flying industrial mations its with fascists squeezed American ground forces on that again fell into a hill ' d and reduced by 44000 their Voronezh and is still leaders alive" tresses (Continue() no Pane Four) military allied In the what headquarters hun(Column Five) R A F and captured in the men killed of the mates dropped limas "a communique described of tons nine of last explosives dreds high days ited success" the British in a on northwestern Germany in an local attack seized a height six k offensive Weda in the LONDON Friday Feb 5 of Boil Arada miles south which The and Thursday night nesday Tuhas cut off German central mountainous area of was aimed at the area where Adolf troopsred inarmy the western Caucasus nisia and threw back a German submarine most essential Hitler's of from Rostov by two swift smashes counterattack A - check-ove- r works are concentrated toward the Sea of Azov and has prisoners taken by- the Americans were Preliminary indications In earlier actions disclosed that an broken through the first line of that the powerfül night attack new nazi fortifications Italian brigadier general was powerful folon Hamburg by the British anMoscow Rostovamong them rimming formalowed Thursday by large a line in of the eastern end nounced the At midnight 4 4 Friday CP—A (JP— WASHINGTON Feb WASHINGTON Feb of Flying Fortresses was recorded by the sothe British Eighth army pursuing threatened attack on the United tions to be one of the biggest communique Merchant shipyards in the United !Marshal westward from States last year was warded off meant monitor radio viet Rommel aerial offensives of the war States delivered 106 vessels agg-repatrol activ- and the enemy defeated over the allied Libya reported only clouds and deadly opposi- Special Communique but icy rear guard The ocean with only thirty minutes' tion were gating 1008400 deadweight tons ity against his encountered and 21 L A special communique a few Bernard of bulk General Sir a of advance notice the invasion bombers were lost in all—five of in January the second month in hours earlier had announced that row in which production passed Montgomery's British forces were Colonel Edgar S Gorrell Presi- them American at or very near the Tunisian dent of the Air Transport Associathe red army had killed or capmark the million-toIn their first attacic on Germany tured 44000 elesome vvith encircled axis troops advanced frontier told antion of America the house The maritime commission on January 27 unescorted For in a week-ol- d well within Tu- interstate committee Thursday ments continuing battle of operating said this Jan e on a large-scalraid Thursday tresses made flouncing L west of Voronezh and annihilation nisil 30 minutes' "With notice only behind the fell uary production Wilhelmshaven and Emden and had swept on to reach positions of slow The a suffiof bethe progress threatened attack 121 relatively December record of ships down 22 of 25 attacking Ger- on three sides of Kursk big nazi cause of shortages of steel and Montgomery's Et dva nrei since he cient number of planes were sent shot man 1941-4- 2 fighters to overran to offensive base above the out to sea lick the enemy before Tripoli suggested delays in completion of propulsion Only three bombers were lost Ukraine in southern Russia as well as severe wea tary observers that he was gath- they could reach our shores" Gor- then But Thursday the communithe same encirclement ample supplies and resting rell said ther conditions which particularly eringsaid "cloud conditions were andUsing que h a smash of to his Colonel tactics ernchief Gorrell insure' staff troops affected northern yards formabad" and "strong slash the nazis the ployed Jo by of the vessels corn- -' through the Bareth Erie behind of the A EF during the last war extremely Seventy-nin- e entions of enemy fighters were stateto on is in some his of tlaborate allied Itorniners refused and which French armies army werein pleted Liberty January some 60 mfles within ment Apparently however he re- countered from the time the bomb- Flanders in 1940 the Russians sent ships four freighters five deployed until ers sighted Germany they two spearhead columns overrunin a minimum of time ferred to the battle of Midway large tankers 14 of special types Tunisia Allied air action was reported Army officials said they knew of were far at sea on the return" and Kanevsand four tugs The Fortress piloted by First ning Starorninskaya in the western Caucasus The "special types" were not heavy from Tunisia to Sicily and- no such bAtle off the continental Lieutenant Charles kaya O Cramer These towns 32 miles are the day's official re- United States further identified but presumably Italys sand three claimed Ohio Akron enemy both only 38 miles fromapart statement his made colorel The howed allied Sea ht eiz the planes were built for the armed services port aircraft One was shot down by of Azov The commission also reported lost in the Tunisian theater to six as he told the committee America inin was the aviation for Sergeant Malcolm H Logan favorable axis—a for ratio the Their seizure effectively split "tops' that the average time from keel Wyo not often achieved the Germans based in the Novorossithe dustry enemy to of delivery laying Liberty ships sk-Krasnodar areas of the was reduced to 526 days in JanuCaucasus—perhaps 200000 men— ary compared with 55 days in Defrom the nazi pivot base of Roscember The three Liberty ships tov to the north All main es- delivered in January 1942 recape roads and railways leading an 241 of average quired days The commanders and WASHINGTON Feb 4 (2P) the armed forces of the 'United to Rostov from the south now are West coast—Yards delivered 54 I of States congratu"merle& Rooseve:t Thursday era of your armies at the front in Russian hands vessels in January east coast on la te you the brilliant victory night congratulated Premier an d th e men an d wo men who It is 38 miles from Staromin-- yards 36 and gulf coast yards 16 R t Staling-raof the armies un- Stalin of Russia on the "brilliant the Azov port and railin them skaya have factory head ofto Yeiski supported of the der your atipreme command victory at Stalingrad" probably and field have combined not only would be used in whichGerman "The 162 days of epic battle armies under hi sr supreme corn- atPortrait Painter Dies any counr cover to ' with for the city which has forever glory their mand this from evacuation at tempt Allhonored yotir name and the deMr Ilooseveltws message LYNBROOK N Y Feb 4 UP) try's arms but to inspire by but an even shorter distance their example fresh determina- - area risive resQlt which all Amer- —Thomas Duncan Tailmadge 79 dressed to His Excellency Jo- —24 miles—to Yeiski estuary naunited all the will tion among jeans are celebrating today seph V Stalin supreme cornpainter and miniaturist portrait Kanevskaya is a mere Similarly to tions to bend every energy one of whose best known pictures rnander of the armed forces of remain oneof the proudest chapoff the another miles from 120 ters in thil war of the peoples was of Mark Twain clad in a the union of soviet socialist re- bring about the final defeat and Sea-- of Azov—Beisugskibay estuary— the of : surrender unconditional united against naziism and its white linen suit and smoking a publics at Moscow read (Continued on Paz(' Two) common enemy" (Column 81) emulators I "As commander in chief of pipe died Wednesday B :' - The red army smashed its way across the northern Caucasus to within 38 miles of the Sea of Azov Thursday the Russians announced Thursday night and the soviet troops thus effectively cut offi'front escape through Rostov the nazi Caucasian army of some 200- 000 badly-maule- d troops This army now seemed trapped with escape apparently possible only across water to the Crimean 3°‘" A16‘1cAGALNI fSKAYA A"--'-'- 4 ' -- Guadalcanal but continued to withhold details on the progress of the widespread air-se- a engagements In the southern Solomons It described - the series of stirface-air engagements as "recurrent" but said flatly that no details of this fighting will be announced "as long as such friformation might jeopardize the safety of our forces in the area of operations' No Mention of Damage Nor did it mention what damage—if any—was inflicted by Jap raiders in waves of one to four planes which bombed American positions on Guadalcanal on successive nights (General Douglas MacArthur's bombers from the Australia thea- ter made heavy contributions to allied blows in the general area attacking Rabaul and Gasmata New Britain and delivering a i'I''' Red Foes Fall In Voronezh Trap 11 WASHINGTON Feb 4 —Th e navy today reported a series of new (7:: 'Q-- I - 0012 i( 9i b: -r 1 7ZS J( 2S :- : — ts-- L4 C' II :r i 7 7 t 1 - H fr Price Five Cents —77-- 0 T 1 I - r777 LipiLIi: 6-71- 4 -0- a IL A t: Opposing Force'sAppear Girding For Crucial Test H 4: ties) ' 4r0 si - For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Not much change in temperature temperature Friday Maximum Thursday 34 18degrees minimum temperature degrees (Issued of military authoriby permission - 4 4744: 1 - ' 1 - iZ:Z4 4 I 1 A I - - n W - tt - - 7 411al - TURNEY - Will Utilize Income c) -- calities but officials emphasized that the list may be changed before the hiring controls take effect Officials said that many other areas where shortages threaten can be brought Under similar controls in the discretion of the W M C's 12 regional directors While provision was made for adjustment to local conditions the McNutt order directed that no hiring be done in the shortage areas without W M C supervision and approval except: 1 That done by small estahlishments which "in general" are defined as nonmanufacturtrig establishments employing less than 25 persons Ind manufacturing firms emplbying less than eight persons 2 The hiring of domestic servants or 'casual' (temporary) employes 3 Hiring by state county or local governments unless they that they "voluntarily request" be put under IN M C regulations The principal hiring operations s t op-ate- Jobs al P Japiintensify CuAalcanal Au' Assaults Ogden Listed Among Cities-- Affected The Utah senate in one of the usiest afternoons of the ses- passed three - bills! I''onThursday ) permit resumption of the! O'c'x leasing system in metal! ines of the state killed a bad beralizing the divorce laws deated a bill to require unions to le financial statements and 'ceived bills covering Gayer-o- r Hertert B Maws program r revision Of the public assist- program governor's assistance pro- ince worked out after a series with county corn- and other groups would crease grants to old age recipi:s by about $10 per month on e average It would also call r a substantial increase in the 3sts of the over-al- l assistance ' rogram or a sharp slash in the nOunts now being expended on e other 11 programs being by the welfare department n ese 11 include dother h i I programs d r e n physically t I andicapped such as the blind it Id unemployables i Briefly summarized the two easures (S B 126 and 127) War-Vit- A7 - 7 h - A -- The Weather Lake City Utah Friday Morning Fehr'llary 5" 1913 ' lines lease INV M C Takes Over Hiring T In Labor Shortage Areas pills ass Utah Senate Control Move Expected to Freeze At4 L A : Q i 47 : 4 - '' 1 : 1 a - ' '' t 2 - 1- - Subs Bombers Davies Suggests U S Bombers of Allies Bag Chance That RAF Blast H Axis 1Ships Hitler Is Dead NorthGermany '-- z - P - i: - - - J:1 ' - - - 'ii':' ' 4 - 4L ' lies--(Offic- ial) ' i - - ::' - it' four-motore- :f''"i it - i round-the-cloc- - ''- A - Raid on U S Beaten Off Witness Says '' 11 enemy-occupie- Yards Deliver 106 Shims lo U S in Month ' - ---- owo-- - i IA - gA I - - 1 42 i4: - i1 ' ' i:' '' 41 - 1 ' n ii 4- mill-equipm- - I' break-throug- - 1 2 - t - C-ty- l' 1 Riverton President Feticitates Stalin on Triumph fight--Preside- - ' - I nt 1 ' J ' ' - - r 11 il i - t i alt 'I :1:' 1 ':4-':-- ir 11 ' ' |