Show a0V1?4 1 I"7:-- - - 1 -- Volunteer 'Wanted '1 li r:fril)p I Still more woomen volunteers Are rPeeled to distribute war ration book No 2 Come to the TribuneTelearram auditorium between 1 and 4 p rn if you can help 16 '''' ( --- "A7))'N''''''' :1 11 i i i e 4a ' 1 :' i i 1 n::sitt) 1 ))-:-T---- 1 " -- roy 126 No k i I 4i jillNytyri-::- 1 7 'The Weather 1 41 1 3 : Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning February 4 -- 7 1 1 0 1 I 1 : 41) J i ii 14 14 1) 1 t 1 kV N For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Somewhat warmer Wednesda Alkcirniun temperature in Salt Lake City Tuesday 38 degrees minimum temperature 28 degrees (Issued by perrnission of military 01 I 1 -iv No 11 -- k 1 t r i - authorities) I Price Five Cents 191:1 4 '‘ T1 I ‘ AIL -T-Tc- A - i I ' : 1 I T ' ) v4441i k i (PI 1 4 4 4 4 ! e0 r I i - on- L' 11 i 1 'i I:21 61"I 0-- ::1"—1 Til s: T 1 t o------ito- 11 7' ' - E : I S : i g ' 'Y1 t RZHEV 1 Removal Viewed As Slap at Military Grour Promies Prompt Negotiation Dollar Orders of By Associated Press NVASIIINGTON Feb 16 — Small business which has been clamoring for more war contracts received a promise Tuesday they will be forthcomtense struggle in the war pro— ing --that pronto" and in multibillion dollar volume dqction board culminated Tue5dColonel Robert W Johnson rea7:- when W P B Chairman Doncentlyh appointed vice chairman board ald M Nelson ousted Vice of t e war production said hi has set a goal of :$25- 000000000 to for I Chairman Ferdinand E'berstadt snialier plants and handed Eberstadt's powers If "persuasion" fal:s to obtain to Charles E Wilson thcsewcontracts "we'll we the roduc'tion specialist powers given us by congress" W1Ison A he averred and former president of General Johnson predicted more subEle:tric company stepped from contract pooling among plants vice thairman to executive vice engineering services to help NV P B answerable tharrnan ef plants get started in war construction and government loans only to Nelson The Smaller War Plants corCalls for Resignation poration will act as a prime conThe action was disclosed in an tractor whenever necessary he told a press conference Th:s corunprecedented W P B press release Which stated that Nelson had poration a loan agency will ex asked Eberstadt for his resignaton- This was in effect a public dsnlissal and was linked by SV P sources to the increasingly b:tter feud between the armed and wpB over control of arms production Nelson said he made the change -te) end the jurisdictional cluestins which if permitted to only hamper the war By Associated Press WASHLNGTON Feb 16—A con-cou- t f fort" It was the first time that Bills Strike At Maw's Fiscal Plan ld Nel- Utah Senate House Propose Changes In Finance Set-U- ever has asked publicly for the resignation of an employe The action came shortly after informed sources had reported that a new showdown was near in son tte long-continu- struggle ed p be- tween W P B and the armed servcontrol ies ever production Eberstadt it was reported has been supported by high army and navy officials In his new role as executive vice chairn-aWilson takes over all Eberstadt's former duties including control of all industry divisions and the functioning of the rew controlled materials plan for a:locating raw materials On the heels of Governor Herbert- B MawI budget message urging retentipn of his expendi- ture control program and finance cornmissitin substantially their present forms Utah legislators began unveiling their own program on the subject Tuesday Developments of the day on the state" financial front included: I Introduction into the senate n of a bill tS B 1641 to reorganize makBek ause our entire effort must the finance commission by cona it body ing center about the production of three appointive memsisting and b(cause this involves the bers and the state board of exproduction) igovernon secretary of A it is essential that two aminers fth:rg and attorney general) state be a true—first that prothri's 2 Introduction into the house if Imn n"n be 'n full charge sec- by appropriations committee und that all related problems be of athe resolution declaring the need the jurisdiction of that pro- - of a permanent legislative budget t7tion man: Nelson said in a committee consisting of three Vatement announcing his actions members from each house to de- The problem of controlling ma- - ten-ninneeds of the van- financial terials flow was of paramount im- - otit state departments and insti- pertance a few months ago Nei- tutions son said but the emphasis now :1 Introduction Into thP house has sitted to make scheduling of by the committee the eutput of munitions and the of a billappronriations to set up a legislative len-that go into munitions the committee such as is - rec- everall job of first importance that orInended in the resoluton he pushed 4 A criticism of the governor's "And because the total va r hudn-e- t for failure to clar- prcgram has become more closely ify the message financial pettire by Sen- integrated it follows that the man ptor Mitchell Melich an Moab in charTe of production cannot the senate The Republican sena- cosTnarge his duties adequately tors remarks on the budget mes- unless he also controls the flow of sa- -e were concurred in by Sena- matTrials into production chan- - tor Ira A (1)) Ogden Huggins rtls" Cnntntled nn Pace Thirteen) irnhimn cop A V P B spokesman said Nelson h h I called Eberstadt into his Office eitrirr Tuesday and told him of the-- decision That was all—they separated" said adding- that spkcsman nct know whether Eberartually had submitted a rg:sIgna ton 'WASHINGTON Feb 16 (UP) —Senator Rufus C Holman (R) NEW YORE Feb 16 IP)—The Oregon Tuesday that charged TrIbune sald today that Dfra:1 i chalrman of the the army has delPted "objee production board had told tionable" portions of a "morale-friend- s and associates he was boosting" film as the picture was for his life" against exhibited to senators and house rri-and navy demands that the members under the auspices of W P S be abolished in its present the Truman committee investiform or that his powers be lim- - gating the war effort !let' Holman voiced the charges as lights flickered on in the huge Ready for Finkh Fight senate caucus room after army "The W P B chairman acknowlsignal corps technicians had ex- eriging that they:re after my hibited "Prelude to Victory" a was understbod tobe ready short film directed by Lieutenscilp to !ight to the finish against the ant Colonel Frank Capra noted army and navy which have prodirector now serving Hollywood tes?d his recent decision to transfwith the army f:- seven important PB divi5Holman seated in the middle 1C'TF from the control of Ferdiof the audience leaped to his nand Eterstadt vice chairman in feet and shouted that the film r harge of materials to that of had been "greRtly changed" Charles E Wilson vice chairman since he first saw it at a recent i7 charge cf production" the Legion dinner-pre- c'! a Washington dispatch said view services 1VEre destcribed AS t fle was challenged by to the shifting of the sentative Albert Gore (1)) umt from Tennessee who shot back that s'I'nur-ge- r ma Frers:a:t toWilson on the ground he considered the Capra prot7af t impaired the success of the duction a "fine film" gortre!::ed materials plan which After ot spirited verbal exIte!Avised bv ITherstadt change the two men left the shift Imperathe six-memb- er !- contiver - I rt te 1 i t k I 1 : I 1 1 I I I 1 ii 4 1 I I1 1 1 arti-Americ- an 7 m 60 pedite loans to plants which are unable to obtain them through the Reconstruction Finance corporation or commercial banks Johnson said Regional and district offices are being authorized to make loans of $23000 without sending them to Washington for approval "We will decentralize our operations" Johnson said "This job cannot be done in Washington It can only be done on the industrial front" Acknowledging criticism of his appointment based largely upon his military connection Johnson said he won't be working for "two masters" Until recently he was in charge of the New York district of the army ordnance He was assigned lo his present job by President Roosevelt he s a I d and W P B Chief Donald M Nelson has expressed an "intense desire" to carry out the wishes of congress and give small business a much greater role in war productiorr Or Damaged: Yanks Lose Two 46—° S m 0 v045 U S— (0 Mcial ) By United Press I At reran ''---- WASHINGTON Feb 16—Seventeen Japanese ships were sunk Or damaged and more than 60 enemy aircraft were shot down in a period of naval engagements' in the Solornons during which the United States lost the heavy cruiser Chicago a destroyer and 22 planes the nay announced Tuesday in two communiques The first communique said that batduring Avidespread s:C tles from January 29 to February two Japanese destroyers Were 4tk--' utlc and 13 other enemy ships probably sunk or damaged j---D---Two More Damaged The second communique Issued late Tuesday disclosed that two more Japanese destroyers were $ damaged in an attack by Amen- 1 bombers on an en- emy surface force near Rendova STATUTE MILES island in the New Georgia group o n February Two and possibly 31wcow Tuesday announced capture by red forces of Kharkov three Zero fighters were shot down du ring this raid (shown On map) Russian steel city that has long semed as While the communiques did not The city fell after fierce a bastion of the German army disclose the number of United street fighting the Russians said States ships damaged they defi- nitely spiked Japanese claims that they had sunk two American battleships and three cruisers navy disclosed that the en- Board Badly Needed emyThesent in- large naval forces car1U-Bo- at aircraft eluding battleships For Postwar Era riers corvettes and cargo ships in the closing days the Solon-ionSays Chief Executive to of the battle for Guadalcanal in Jap-Hel- d a determined attempt to evacuate their forces trapped on the island WASHINGTON Feb 16 (1') Germans Put Up Lae Salanuma Hit in role the himself of4EA1r Power vs Ships Picturing what he termed a great saver of But the engagements involved Stroll- Defense By Raiders money and a watchdog on the air power versus ships: no surface ships were engaged with one anWith No Opposition - Ba Six Bombers' pocketbooks of the country Pres- - other ident Roosevelt said Tuesday that The communique revealed that congressmen who vote to abolish the Jap fleet refused to "accept l) Allies—(Official) national long-tim- e planning were a decisive battle" It was content Associated Press By By Associated Presi likely to be the real 'spendthrifts to limit its activities to covering 11 AN AMERICAN ALLIED IN BOMBE HEADQUARTERS the troop evacuations and interof the nation The chief executive made his fering with American reinforceAUSTRALIA Wednesday Feb 17 STATION IN ENGLAND Feb 16 —American Flying- Fortresses and statement during a press confer- ment efforts —Lae and Salarnana the Jap-helence discussion of what might reHere is the' breakdown of losses New Guinea bases on the Liberators pounded the German sult 'should congress finally ap- by both sides in the y base at St Nazaire in period gulf have taken a new aerial broad daylight rilesday in the face prove abolition of the national re- of scattered encounters: sources planning board The house pasting from the allies without the of heavy- groth1d and aerial Japanese: j committee has voted Ships sunk—Two destroyers from Jai) fenses which brought down six of appropriation opposition to cut off its funds d bombers the big Probably stink—Four destroy- fighter planes Mr Roosevelt said the agency ers as was second the It European Since the Papuan peninsula to (Continual on Oneze Twos headed by his uncle Frederic B two days for the U S Column e the south of these two bases fell bombers and the third allied Delano was looking ahead-towa- rd allies Lae and Salarnaua tack in four days against St Napostwar years when people would be leaving jobs in munitions plants have drawn the attention in New zaire a French port about 75 and soldiers would be coming 1 southeast of Lorient where Guinea both on the ground and miles home into the Loire river the from the sky Both have air- - Bay of niscay empties It has been working he said H-11- 1' T"-cwith a backlog of work projects dromes Although they bumped into a which could be started then Yet allied medium bombers were daredevil German flying circus a rriMuch time and considerable able to drop low for their attack R thick curtain of antiaircraft fii7e money can be saved through adwithout encountering aerial op- - the bombers reportedon droppingvanced planning and preparation their explosives dead This Absence of thearof engineering and archietectural WASHINGTON Feb 16 (JP)— position was in sharp Japanese contrast get details he said Other large formations c4 allied Chairman Doughton (D) North with an aerial action which oc- He is inclined to think Mr was reported reliably curred in January only 35 miles Planes- believed to be flOters Roosevelt said that advance prep- Carolina southwest of Salamaua at NVau roared out across the English aration might save almost sev- Tuesday to have submitted to the where more than 40 Jap planes channel late Tuesday afternoon eral billion dollars in such things house ways and means commit-a- s were shot down or damaged in one headed toward Boulogne and Catime and employment tee a tor cancellation the biggest sky fights of the lais The president himself brought of halfsuggestion The ministries of R ir: and borne 1913 income of individual Pacific war: southwest - (Continued nn Page Four) txes to facilitate putting 41000Minor skirmishing continued in security announced that enemy Column 0 e i o 00U taxpayers on a area with the noon Planes dropped bombs at a place the of General Douglas In'ar the southwest coast of Engbasis communique Such a cancellatioa would erase MacArthur reporting the killing land Tuesday afternoon causing some damage and a small number around $6500000000 of govern- :of 17 Japs Wau and Mubo on the ap- - of casualtiesment "assets" according to treasbefore dark our fight-sectury estimates The plan would re- proaches to Salarnaua are in a- ers"Shortlydown an enemy bomber shot where there has been conquire a certain amount of "douinto the sea off the south coast bling up" by persons paying more siderable ground activity in recent- of improvised theater both in an than one year's taxes within a weeks during which the Japs suf- a England" the ministries said in joint communique angry mood year until the unabated portion of fered losses exceeding '1000 men The air ministry also disclosed Holman did not elaborate on 1913 and in full were paid and were forced to give ground his charge that alterations had Over Salamauti medium bomb- - that night flying fighters shot up The proposition was submitted been made In the film but at a committee executive session ers came In for a low level attack 11 locomotives and trains and shot in northern friends said he had been critical a committee source reported and which resulted in the destruction down one Dornier-2101 PAze Four) tContirled was understood to have gained of numerous small surface craft of the alleged "early version" 1Column Five) because it purportedly contained substantial favor immediately passages criticizing congress for among the 25 members now tryHar"apathy" in the ing to decide how much taxes if bor period any should be abated in the The Capra production was run changeover to a current collection off to demonstrate the part mofoundation t tion pictures are playing in the Some committeemen commentwar effort Its showing was a ed privately that the plan by in the East Indies were not deWASHINGTON Feb 16 (2P1— part of the Truman commitBeardsley RUIT11 chairman of the tee's investigation into charges federal reserve bank of New York of Knox said stroyed" the Navy Secretary to cancel all of 1942 taxes was The last navy report on Amerthat well known Hollywood pipis the its navy Tuesday pressing rsonalities among them Colonel ican submarine sinkings of Jap"definitely out" and that the comk anese shjps of all types came mittee decision now apparently submarine campaign "very enDarryl F Zanuck official of Twentieth Century-Fo- x rests between the Doughton proout about two weeks ago and ergetically" against Japanese used their influence to efshowed that up to that time 123 posal and a plan submitted by Repshipping in the southwest Pacific area fect a change in the award of resentative Robertson (D) Virenemy ships were sunk 22 probcontracts for training films "We assume that they're doginia to abate the 6 per cent norably sunk and 32 damaged—a Truman said Tuesday his commal and first bracket surtax of 13 ing the most they can to extotal of 177—by submarinemittee will call Undersecretary per cent on the 1942 income for ploit that territory" he told a The secretary was asked how "Undoubtedof V A r Robert P Patterson to all taxpayers conference the navy was getting along with press The Robertson proposal would lly they are getting oil for one eireumstances unrier its campaign Of attrition against explain which army training films have wipe out $7000000000 to SS000- - thing shipping on which the Japanese been produced by companies "I have had unofficial reports 000000 of treasury "assets" acwhole usefulness of the conwith which Zanuck and other cording to Randolph Paul tress that theythave renewed oil proquered territories rest and he motion picture company execuury general counsel Paul said the- duction in the shallow-- wells in replied that "were pressing our times now in uniform are assoRuml plan would erase $10000submarine campaign very enernorthern Borneo and we know ciated 000000 of "assets" of course that some installations fletically" KURSK VORONEZH - BELGOROD33 KHARKCSV c 200 0 11EEnnala can-escort- President Hits illove to ody BPlan UCapture S)°‘ ö ROSTOV four-motore- at-th- - U S Bombers Hit Rolmnel By Gault Mac Gown Accredited 17 S War Correspondent WITH THE UNITED STATES FOLICES IN TUNISIA Feb 16— is Censored By Cable now confirmed that Marshal Erwin nommel is no longer in command of the German forces in Tunisia American bombers- blew up his headquarters at Sfax wounding him seriously- He was taken to a hospital in Tunis from which be was transferred by airplane to Germany This blow to the Africa corps leadership may oblige General Von Arnim to revise his strategy and may explain the present sortie in force of his panzers aimed at gaining better positions and destroyinz advanced airfields of the allies North American Newspaper Alliance - I l'roaxi Paper Stilled MJENOS AMES Feb 16 ('f'— Acting on instructions of the in- terior ininister police Tuesday ordered the newspaper El Pamper° which is friendly to the axis closed indefinitely I sl 4o 7' r t : '- - half-encircl- or i I tt 1 - I I I t L - i 1 f: i - I ut H - :i army units WAu-Mub- : : - - 4 N industrial center capital of the Ukraine—which probably was more valto the Germans than anv other Russian city they have taken of the l - $5000-a-wee- l':::':::-- I - - I an to Lance of iGlins Hedtrincr i 1 as - Navy Pushes Drive to Smash Jay Shipping in Pacific - er at pre-Pea- rl - - - 7 1 20-mi- le d 19-1- '':-1''- I Sweeping Advances First Great Test (The Russian midnight communique as recorded by the soviet monitor in London reported Allies---- ( 0 f ficial) sweeping aJvances over a wide front in the Rostov region By Associated Press west of ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN with Sinyavka 20 miles to Rostov and g halfway Taganro Feb 16 NORTH AFRICA defense center on the north- American tank forces and corn- - nazi ern coast of the sea of Azov one bat teams rising to their first' of the localities falling-t- o the back sians great test of the war threw Marthe veteran armed forces of a dozen other towns fell shal Erwin Rommel six miles to (Half Russians the sweeping forward Tuesday in a counterattack west to clean out the whole Donets river of Faid pass on the ancient pla- basic of the German invaders the teau of central Tunisia communique added n ' Recovering- from the shock of (West of Krasny-SuliRommel's first onslaught which junction in the Donets the sovi-broke through their lines for a rolled forward into 30 gain' of 20 miles §unday the more populated places and the Americans under an umbrella of peril to Nazi forces in all of south-fightplanes were engaged in a ern Russia deepened with these heavy action which might hasten advances and the fall of Kharkov a north African showdown by which poises the Russians for weeks southward drives that could trap Some 60 miles to the south the large German forces allied lines were bent back as Kill Many Germans American and French troops with75 west miles (Russian troops advanced e n drew from Gafsa ofi the Gulf of Gabes and small forces' other sectors killing hundreds of of the enemy occupied that for- - Germans the midnight war bulleward base but the decisive aetiont tin said and soviet offensives cod-wbeing fought around Sidi tinued in the Kharkov area agai95t the Bouzid about 125 miles south and t "desperate resistance soviet units broke up the enemv slightly west of Tunis Rommel apparently had thrown defenses by powerful blows and wiping out the man power and the bulk of his armored forces into the Hitlerites") the battle in what may be his lastl equipment ofwas Kharkov the greatest vie- big offensive effort in Africa at a tory for Russian arms since the time when he believed the British at Stalingrad where the triumph exan would require Eighth army German Sixth army was wiped tensive period of rest and recondi- - ont 1100-mile tioiUng following its In the final assault red army chave of Rommel across Egypt men routed some of- Hitler's bst and) Libya into Tunisia "S S" or elite guard corps the communique from Cairo eluding two—the " Adolf Hitler" Tuesday said General Sir Bernard and "Reich" tank divisions—that L Montgomery's desert veterans the Russians say had been rushed were continuing to push up to the up from France since January 31 Mareth line 65 miles inside Tu-- 1 marked the fall Kharkov of The nisia and had occupied Ben Gar- - crumbling not only of the strongdane a fortified outpost Ben est bastion of the nazis' powerful Garclane is about 20 miles inside 1941-1- 2 winter defensive Tunisia from which last summer's great (A Berlin broadcast quoting Gerrhan offensive was mounted— "competent military quarters" but also the last important strong-sai- d German and Italian forces hold of the line except Orel to the (Continnel on Pig' Three) north and that city already is (Column Four) Allies---(Officia- pay-as-you-- i I —was announced in a special corn- munique Kharkov was toppled after a kJ "violent attack Which passed into fierce street fighting" it declared and the soviet lunge smashed through some of Hitler's crack Amerirans Strike Il ard in - 10-da- t Farce R oniinel Lines aeit Six 11l lie Allied BomberslYanks Batter Base Rain Fire on Mises At St Nazaire s ' Dnieper river N RUSSIA s r air-nav- al ets R ' By Associated Press MOSCOW Feb 16—Red army troops stormed into Kharkov ' Tuesday in a vicious assault seizing that skyscraper City of the Ukraine to wrest from the German-theigreatest fortified base in southern Russia and imperil all ifitler's troops east of the ' ROSSOSH el) 1 Russian---(Offici- al) 10-d2- :! - Fierce Street Fighting Precedes Fall Of SkA scraper City to Russ Nazis Face Withdraltal to Dnieper OREL :':':'7: F 11' 4 s rmy 'Doctored' Morale Film Senator Holman Charges - NrI-301- Nip Vessels Stmk I loss at astion twerils Large Moscow IThere Nazis Feel Russ MitYht Nelson Ousts WPB Aid Pledges Contracts U S 17 Ebemtadt For Nation's Small Firms Jap Ships In WP31710-11Neitly Appointed Vice Chairman Sixty Planes Bao-- s ed Can Threaten New Traps From Kharkov vital railway center second in importance only to Moscow the Russians can threaten new traps for German forces retreating across the plains east of the Dnieper Kharkov had been in Germarr hands since October 21 1941 four months after the start of the nazi invasion It normally was a city of 800000 with immense industries and six trunk railroad lines radiating from it At Kharkov the Russians now stand about 125 miles northweA of the Dnieper at Dnieperonetrovsk and the speed with which their offensive has crushed for- ward indicates the Germans—their whole system of "hedgehogs' lie fenses in southern Russia virtually eliminated—plan to make a new stand' on the western bank of the Dnieper Farther south the Rug sians stand at Likhaya only 65 miles east of Dnieperopetrovsk (All the nazi forces in the Donets river basin tcr the south now seen to be in an almost indefensible position for the soviets can sween down to encircle them and the Germans apparently must yield all the territory along the northern coast of the sea of Azov and perhaps the Crimea as well (British military observers say the Germans must -fall back to the or perish Dnieper German-radihad prepared (The on Pmze (Conunieei Column Five) ? 4 ii i7::7 f I t f - 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