Show WEATHER Ogden and J Slightly ity: warmer this ternoon tonigiit af- " V WA V A I - Nazis Driven Back From Mozdok as Lines —— l FOR F advanced along both banks of the Terek river today driving the Germans back to the northwest and west from newly recaptured Mozddok and breaking a salient the nazis forces had thrust f or- ward more than four months ago toward the Grozny oil fields Russian reports said JLSTALINGRAD r1"0" - The swift Russian recapture yesterday of Mozdok and Malgobek 15 miles southeast of Mozdok was considered a major victory like those of Stalingrad and Velikie Luki where the red army continued its offensives Crumble The German lines appeared to be 'crumbling in the most important sectors the Russians said as the nazi command stiffened resistance at some points only to be hit at others by the "hard-drivin- g red army The next major Russian objective appeared to be Prokhladnenski which Is a railroad junction for lines running east and west and south and lies 33 miles west of Mozdok of The reoccupation Prokhladnenski would cut off the German forces at Nalchik now un- - O Ir fpnm thm 1 MONDAY EVENING V iS A 'A A F I I M I AP Feature NEA Scrvie 10 A mmi¥haa¥ Rains Slow Action Winter rains have broken the terrain and made the Caucasus campaign slower than the drive CAiari RUMANIA Moscow radio broadcasting the mid-da- y soviet communique said today that the Russian conquerors of Mozdok only 60 miles northwest of the oil center of Grozny were continuing their pursuit of the German forces and had liberated several more populated places Black areas (above) indicate how soviet forces are rolling toward Riga (A) in the north and Rostov (B) in the south Black territory 1s that gained by the Soviets since their current offensives broke through the German front lines (striped on the shading) Russians Friday captured strategic Velikie Luki route to Riga and Elista by the forces pushing toward Rostov White Book Reveals Plot Before War at Bismarck Ohicago L Allies Wipe Out Nippons In Guinea's Buna Area By ASSOCIATED PRESS American and Australian jungle fighters who wiped out the last pockets of Japs ia-jtBuna- - area of New Guinea over the week-en- d were closing in today on the invaders' defenses in the swampy Sanananda area to RAF ATTACKS El) II II TARGETS ha across the Don steppes but the entire German position in the heart where a comof the north Caucasus— already Im- the north periled by the Russian push south munique from General McAr-thur- 's from Stalingrad— now appeared In from frontal headquarters said "the greater danger assaults position is now hope- Delayed accounts of the Russian enemy's occupation of Elista said it was a less" In' Washington the navy anvictory of men over" machines red Gerarmy infantrymen mastering nounced that U S motor torpedo man tanks' in a violent battle ' boats scored a hit on one and three There were no further specific two other of eight reports of the progress of the red possible hits on Stalin-grad Jap destroyers sighted Saturday off army offensives south of or in the middle Don region the northwestern end of GuadalIn the latter sector the Germans canal island in the Solomons were resisting stubbornly along Fortresses Active ""prepared lines of defense Red Star Flying fortresses and long-rang- e Lockheed lightning fighter planes carried the aerial attack again to the Jap strongholds of Lae and Madang far up the New Guinea coast and the bombers raided Gas-maon New Britain island set10000-to-n a ting ship ablaze Sanananda some two miles up the coast from Giropa and five miles from Buna was described as the last stand of Jap forces on the "See those planes?' asked an Og-de- n Papuan peninsula who advanced man' "They are Russian?" last September to 32 miles from Port Moresby stepping stone to When asked how he knew he Australia The communique announcing that answered "I can see the' insignia the Japs were hemmed In a narrow on them" pocket there said the allies had Who would have thought before "completed the destruction of the the war that some day we would enemy's defeated forces" in the see Russian planes over this city Buna area U S Fliers Active This world of ours is getting American fliers 5 continued their smaller assaults against Jap ground and sea forces in the Solomon islands Calling up In early morning pounding the enemy airfield at James Douglas that much loved Munda and bombing two depioneer said: stroyers Land fighting continued on "I want' you to see Ben Lomond Guadalcanal island with between as you often write of the moun- 30 and 35 Japs reported killed in patrol clashes Enemy artillery was tain" reported active for the first time in several weeks out window there the Looking R A F fighter planes continued was the majestic skyscraper capped their un daily attacks on Jap occupied snow the and with bringing out every fold and rugged prom- villages in western Burma The inence There it stood in all its latest communique from New Delhi gave no new information on the radiant glory progress of British land forces which had pushed across the InIf you don't get some of these dian border the Rathedaung pictures of that mighty peak you area some 25into miles northwest of are missing a gorgeous treat the west uurma port of Akyab Having read in News and Views that In Golconda Nevada many ears ago a Frenchman fed his customers on horsemeat without their knowledge a railroad worker said: SALT LAKE CITY Jan 4 "I wa one of th°s who ate of Plans for the winter meeting(AP) of that and thought it peculiarly the Utah State Press association ' sweet next Saturday and Sunday have been completed Albert W Epperm he was employed son of Kaysville secretary-treasurwitil b"Idse gang of the Southannounced Saturday ern Pacific Publishers will meet Saturday at the Newhouse hotel and will be 'The mention of the occurrence luncheon guests at the Camp brought back many memories to Kearns air force basic training cenhim ter Election of officers will take Recently there died in Salt Lake place Saturday afternoon and comCity a woman who had lived in mittee reports will be made Sunday The meeting will adjorn SunColuina Two) day noon U1 ta O Press Group Sets Winter Meeting tnt er St Nazaire Sub Base Hit Mines Are Laid By British Jan 4 (AP)— British bombers attacked targets in the Ruhr last night to top off a daylong Sunday assault on nazi strongLONDON holds which included a smashing raid by U S heavy bombers on the St Nazaire sub base Three of the R A F craft Were reported missing from the night assult DNB official German news agency said a town in the Rhur suffered damage It was understood that only a small force took part in the raid Mines wer© laid in enemy waters U S Loses Seven The U S army air force lost seven bombers on the St Nazaire raid — the greatest loss yet suffered on raids on German-hel- d territory — but the communique announcing the raid reported that bursts were seen on the target and fires were started among the shipbuilding and repair facilities of the huge base It was assumed that both flying fortresses and liberators took part In the raid but official reports did not specify the types used The communique said that a number of enemy planes were destroyed as they attacked the formation in the target area and during a running fight which followed Squadrons of allied fighters escorted the bombers part way to their target and picked them up on their return The round trip was approximately 1000 miles While the American bombers were busy at St Nazaire R A F bombers and fighters sped over northern France Holland and Belgium in attacks on railways docks and airfields The docks at Bruges and an airfield in Holland were attacked while other planes bombed railway targets in northern France German planes struck back at England last night after two daylight raids Several places in northeast England were bombed it was said but there were no reports of casualties Carry Cards Men Or Face Penalty WASHINGTON Jan 4 (UP)— All men between 18 and 45 who have been subject to selective servfor six months or more must carry classification cards after Feb 1 or be subject to a fine or imprisonment or both the selective- - service bureau announced today Both the classification and the original registration certificate must be carried hereafter selective service said The order does not apply to registrants who were in the 45 to 65 year-ol- d groups at the time of registration ice registration MOTORISTS WARNED WASHINGTON Jan 4 (UP)-T- he OPA today warned motorists not to delay their tire inspection beyond Jan 31 since neither gaso line ration books nor tires will be issued to those who do not meet the deadline a) ar f ar super-congressio- Francis Maloney Sen 1 (D-Con- n) said he would reintroduce such a 1 bill immediately TROOPS MAY RIDE BOX CARS WASHINGTON- - Jan 4 (UP)— Converted freight cars may be used soon to transport troops because of the shortage of railroad equipment Director Joseph B Eastman of the ODT said today in an interview He cited that possibility aa" an example of how railroads have abandoned thinking-as-usuto make peacetime equipment serve war needs Eastman predicted tha the railroads — by using ancient Pullmans with coal burning heaters and ramshackle wooden cars from New York city's abandoned elevated lines— would just about "get by" in al 1943 r— 1 FINAL EDITION PAGES Aid in Hurling Back Axis Attack anti-tan- NORTH AFRICA En Route to a Base Hospital Jan 3 yesterday (Delayed) (AP)-A- fter watching from a grandstand seat the destruction of 19 crack German fighters in a violent air battle it seemed anrjarent to me that Ameri can engineering genuis and the raw pioneer courage of American youth had jf orged into one of the greatest air weapons of the war the com bination of Flying Fortresses and Lightning Fighters I have just returned from t flight over Tunis in a flying for tresis where I watched fortresses and their fighter escorts rip through one of the hottest German air defenses in the world with every American bomber returning to base: In the Jead bomber In this sec ond largest attack of the war on the axis-hel- d port staged yesterday I watched the fortresses with their escorting fighters beat! off or drive through surging swarms of Focke-Wuland Messerschmitt fs 109s - No air force in the worlds even the German air force in its best t and tougher until they cut me down" he said Petroleum Administrator Ickes testified that the eastern seaboard's gasoline and fuel supplies were on a "hand to mouth basis" and the situation Was likely to become even more' grim before it improved Jeffers Backs Farmers Jeffers Rubber Administrator told the committee he had recom mended that farmers be allotted all the gasoline they need for essential food production until a new simplified rationing form can be i put into effect April l Jeffers read a letter he had ad dressed to Henderson and Trans portation Director Eastman urging themi to see to it that no larmer or stock raiser lacked ' the gasoline he needed to maintain production Jeffers said there was no ques tion in his mmd that 'any cutting of gasoline quotas below farmers' essential needs would interfere seriously with food production The trend also must be more toward letting local boards decide what were essential needs he said— "if we rely more on the integrity and honesty of the individual we will get better results than through a t punitive process PLAWSilT AT WENDOVER minister" Despite this increasing Jap pressure verging on threats of "most unfortunate" consequences Hull continued to the proposal So the Japs finally gave up and did the next best thing they sent their ' special "peace" emissary Sabura Kurusu flying to Washington where he and Ambassador Nomura waved the olive branch while Jap planes crept closer to WENDOVER Utah Jan 4 (UP) Ground parties and planes were searching the desert lands of western Utah and eastern Nevada toheavy day for a missing U Sofarmy 10 bomber and its crew The plane had not been heard from! since it left the Wendover airbase on a routine flight early ofSaturday It was carrying four was and men enlisted ficers and six due back at the base at six pvn er YANK FLIERS ACTIVE French forces effectively day had an air weapon capable of such sustained daylight bombing enough" "If I had it to do over again— attacks as that of the Americans which God forbid— I'd be harder in what they call "The Daisy government continued to urge upon U S an early meeting between the president and the Jap prime Crews Anti-Tan- k k gun by XL S ABOARD AN AMBU backed planes hurled back a LANCE PLANE OVER ners andaxis armored attack heavy -- Japs Persistent But the Japs were persistent "Throughout September 1941' says the White Book "the Jap S U By WES GALLANGIIER It fs known that the Pennsylvania railroad is experimenting with reconditioned freight cars for use as troop transports Army authorties it is understood have already- inspected one car made Pearl Harbor over with three" tiers' J of steel berths and portholes cut In the Saturday Names of the crew members were sides for windows The model has withheld pending outcome of the been described as "comfortable" search Lieut A J Madden base and is believed to have met army Railroad public relations officer said officials said in approval general only new type steel cars SAN FRANCISCO Jan 4 (UP) would be used for such purposes War-bus- y San Francisco practically u-Rlf- siis was meatless today and scores of FIREMAN ARSONIST i butcher shops were forced to shut BLOOMINGDALE N J Jan 4 down Beef lamb and veal virtually GRAFT (UP) — Fireman Thomas E Ander- were unobtainable in the San Franson's nose for fires has resulted cisco area Saturday Some pork in his arrest on a charge of arson was offered for sale but by two Anderson used to baffle his fellow p m Saturday nearly every store By Associated Press of the Bloomingdale was completely sold out of all reA British Merchantman which tail supplies volunteer fire company j because tried to ram an attacking he got to the firehouse before in "the Atlantic ocean off CENTENARIAN FIES alarms were turned in and thus the northern coast of South Amer- ST GEORGE Utah Jan 4 (UP) ica was got to drive the truck He was and sunk arrested last night after a suspic- It only happens to a man once re- I the navy disclosed today ious fire broke out in a summer marked Charles W Seegmiller as The sinking rasied to 582 the Ascauslake Oakwood on sociated birthPress total of announced he celebrated his hundredth pavilion ing $500 damage State police said day by taking his first airplane united nation and neutral ship his footprints matched those of the ride and returning to greet more losses in the western Atlantic since arsonist Pearl Harbor than 500 relatives and friends No Meat Left in San Francisco BRITISH fire-fighte- 35 By ASSOCIATED ousness of it never has permeated that together with the freedom that people attach to their movements" he testified He recalled that not only he but Rear Admiral Emory Land of the maritime commission: war department and other officials had repeatedly told the nponipi ttf the "insistence or easo- line and fuel oil rationing and of converting oil burners for the use of coal' As a result of the "carelessness and indifference" plus bootlegging he declared "we will have tnis winter people who scrupulously observed the rationing laws who will be Inconvenienced r Not Touch Enoueh The! retiring OPA chief said gaso line bootlegging reminded him of liquor bootlegging during prom- bition Hisionlv reeret "as an outbound administrator" Henderson said was that he Had "not been tough an cold-should- 40 'Washington 3" 3 Allied Air Power 'Mount With Flying Fortresses 19 Crack German FightIn the Lead ers Blown From Sky By Fortresses PRESS department ment a plan to bring President Roosevelt and Premier Prince Konoye together aboard a Jap warship in the Pacific for a "frank exchange of views" Jap Ambassador Kichisabura Nomura broached the subject to Hull on Aug 8 when the presence of Jap troops in French Indo-Chin- a was complicating the already strained relations between Japan and U S 'The ambassador then Inquired" says the White Book "whether it might be possible to arrange for a heads matingtwoofthe: respomible of the governments to discuss mean of adjusting relations between the two nations" Hull's response is not recorded but a few weeks later the subject was reopened this time by a message from Konoye to President Roosevelt pointing out that inconversations formal were getting nowhere in a situation "which might produce unforeseen contingencies" Asked to Meet F D R In a conversation with Hull the same day (Aug 28) Nomura said Konoye nlanned to meet the presi dent "in a Jap warship" and that his government was "very anxious that the meeting be held at the earliest possible moment" Hull was cool to this suggestion although the then recent meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill aboard a warship in the Atlantic made the Jap proposal technically innocent enough Hull told Nomura he thought an agreement in principle on the main issues should be reached before any meeting of the president and the premier On Sept 6 Grew informed Hull that Konoye assured him Jap army and navy leaders were very favorable to the proposed high seas conference that the navy would send along a full admiral and the army its vice chief of staff The White Book does r not say whether Hull suspected treachery but mentions the fact that the military element responsible for Jap aggression would be "heavily represented" at the conference was a factor in this government s dis approval of the plan Jap-Americ- 15 6 20 New Orieana 74 1 HIGH OVER TUNIS Enforcement problems had been of reports that Japan by reluctance to ac planned the surprise attack in case aggravated v U S cept gasoline rationing and few of "trouble" with the persons would inform on violators government Jap Apparently amof the rearulations! Henderson told did not know the American bassador had got wind of its de- a senate committee investigating signs for a few months later it oil shortages is that the run seri"My guess began urging on the state depart27 1941 '!'! -- NAZIS IN BATTLE i an formed 41'Provo 5 18 Rock Bprlngi 25 41 32 189alt Lake AtUnuT64 YANKS OUTFIGHT ar Jan 25 39 Was Not Tough Enough Henderson The other was a movement that flourished off and on during the conlast congress for a in to assist committee gressional prosecution of the war Wednesday's session will be devoted primarily to receiving new members of the organization ' To Hear Address Thursday has been set aside for Roosevelt's President receiving state of the Union address Friday the house and senate probably will receive the administration's budget for the next fiscal year beginning July 1 1943— a budget that some quarters estimate may reach $105000000000 Meanwhile it was believed that Senate Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley of Kentucky and all other senate and house leaders bothDemocratIc and Republican would retain their jobs in the new congress The" economy campaign will be led by Chairman Harry F Byrd (D-Vof the joint congressional economy committee He has indicated that his group will delay opening the campaign just enough to learn what major economies the president may suggest in" his budget f message Mr Roosevelt already has told congress that curtailment of non-wexpenditures is Its responsibility — that he will - concern him self primarily with the vast sums to be devoted to jwinning the war Byrd believes that the new con gress has a mandate to accept "fully and adequately the president's challenge not only in non-wagencies but in the admin-? istration of war agencies The proposal for a committee to handle bills dealing with the conduct of the war died during the adjournment rush of the last session But 43 EX-CHI- EF I RUSSIANS ADVANCE C Freia'ch Capture SCORES FUEL Nazis- - Italians: in BOOTLEGGiG African Conflict OPA Oii Warship Message Thursday Launch Work of Mill I JANUARY 4 1943 ToLureFR COHSS a 'jrk' Japs Tried Jap-Americ- O tfa Aa i '' ! Jan 4 (AP)— The red army of the Caucasus 1 R Jo Over Tank MOSCOW I — f 22Oklahoma 39 Ogden ' Says 4 WASHINGTON Jan Senate Confab 78th Term (AP) — How close Pearl Harbor came to being a much TESTIFIES BUDGET ON FRIDAY greater national humiliation ICKES ALSO — " '" than it actually was is disclosed in the white book is Farmers Economy Campaign Set sued by Secretary Hull over Jeffers Upholds In Receiving Fuel to to promote "a By Chairman Byrd the week-en- d Aid Production Next Week clearer understanding" of war problems and issues by WASHINGTON Jan 4 WASHINGTON Jan 4 Americans — Price Administrator The final and most dramatic (UP)— Congressmen return- portion of the book reveals that the (AP) ing to the capital for the Japs not only" planned montns at-in Henderson denouncing gasofor a surprise mass line bootlegging and express formal opening of the J8th advance but did Harbor" at Pearl tack congress next Wednesday to- their diplomatic utmost to maneuv- ing regret that he had "not discussions been tough enough" in en er day found two campaigns for in such a way peace President that f Roosevelt would be in the hands of forcing rationing said today action well developed One was a determined drive by the Jap navy when its torpedo that people are more indif an influential group of senators to planes stabbed at the heart of the ferent to the need for con cut government expenditure- s- American seapower in the Pacific non-wones— drasticalSurprise Attack serving motor fuel than to especially C Grew In' Ambassador Joseph ly on anything else the state For Elista lines I To Humiliate Uj S Corps in Drive ' A 1 aB ' 5 WEDNESDAY - MAY SPLIT ARMIES - "fyf f? 7Vf SOLOilS BACK JRUSSIA nNlANDJg ZZZS iL 1 OGDEN CITY UTAH Crumble eds Win III I Riissians Advance in Caucasus Thrust Near Grozny Oil Fields I J VV Tbe United Associated Press I he 'J iV- - N U3(& J Year— No 196 Seventy-thir- d I J' jTli Sl rt1 vicin- rs aub-mari- ne : 1 - Chain" run over Tunis and Bizerte where the Germans have' concendeft trated fighters and fenses of terrific fire powei Day after day from a "Shjangri-La- " in North Africa flying forlescort tresses with their twin-taile- d fighters smash down on the! axis-hel- d ports with such regularity that the pilots Joke that they "feel like a driver on a milk run'! The losses in fortresses and escort planes shot down hav4 been the lowest of the war for the type of operation being less than two ' per cent anti-aircra- ODT WILL RULE BUS-CA- LINES R WASHINGTON Jan 4 (UP)— President Roosevelt today expanded the authority of the office! of defense transportation over domestic transportation facilities to include street car and bus lines By executive order Mr Roosevelt gave ODT authority over "all domestic transportation within the United States" and gave Director Joseph B Eastman the power to initiate requisitioning of such facilities Local passenger transportation equipment brought under the ODT included buses street railway cars trolley coaches trucks converted for passenger transportation (ferry boats and other vehicles or vessels use'd or capable of being used to carry nine or more passengers (including the operator) in public or private carrier service j LABOR SHORTAGE ACUTE IN OGDEN WASHINGTON Jan 4 (UPJ— The war manpower commission toclassifiday Issued the following centers: industrial of cation major Centers with acute labor shortages include: San Diego Calif! Las Vegas Nev Portland Ore Ogden Utah Seattle Cheyenne Wyo Centers with current balance of labor supply and demand include: San Bernardino Pheonix Ariz San Francisco and Stockton Calif Idaho Pocatello Pueblo Colo Provo and Salt Lake City Utah Everett and Spokane Wash Areas with anticipated balance for six months include: Freisno Los Angeles and San Jose Calif Denver Colo Areas with labor sur pluses include: Billings Mont Al buquerque iNew Aiexico southeast of and captured both German and Italian ' prisoners dispatches from Allied headquarters in North Africa announced today Pi-ch- on Correlated with this action were two raids by American airmen flying light bombers and fighters against axis armored equipment concealed about the Port of Sousse some 60 miles to the east in which half a dozen tanks were destroyed or burned and many others damaged Brave Bad Weather Braving bad weather the fliejs struck with bombs cannon and 8 machine guns One Lockheed was lost but the pilot got down safely It was a spectacular followup to a great display of growing allied air power in Tunisia at the weekend in which American and British planea - shot dawn 2& enemy-aircra- ft damaged 34 others and battered axis supply bases of the axis planes Twenty-thre- e reported destroyed were credited officially to American fliers who took a leading part in the nery burst of aerial activity described In dispatches' from North 'Africa as the most intense of the entire ' i Tunisian campaign The Americans' bag an allied r headquarters communique said in- - ( Gerwhen down 19 eluded brought man and Italian fighters attempted to repulse a flying fortress assault on the Tunis harbor area Satur- day The bristling guna of the formidable fortresses accounted for 17 pf 8 this toll while escorted Lightning fighters which down two the the raiders shot' " bulletin said 'V ' No Fortress Lost Allied losses were put at only seven planes— two of them American Not a single flying fortress was lost though dispatches from the front indicated that perhaps 32 had taken part in themass assault upon Tunis The communique said that the fortresses scored hits on two ships in Tunis harbor set fire to oil J tanks blasted a power house and did widespread damage to the dock ' area Docks and a military encampment at Sousse and the railway between Sousse and Sfax— previously reported broken in eleven places by allied air attacks— also were bombed" allied headquarters P-3- 2 - tWln-engin- P-3- ed -- said French Laud Yanks j French infantry motorized cavanti-tan- k alry some artillery and the Germaof brunt the bore units n-Italian thrust in the region of Foudouk southeast of Pinchon The French commander cited American anti-tan- k crews and planes for their" support It was the first reference to American troops in action in that Immediate area although U S forces were known previously to have moved into the southern protector? reaches of the French " ' ate Dust storms and rains combined to hamper all operational activities yesterday within Libya Without detail the Italian high command declared that "In Tunisia axis troops have consolidated uci ' cesses of the last few days and : - occupied some ground" Its com- munique broadcast from Rome said axis fighters and ground gunners had shot down 10 allied planes The German high command reported that French troops attempting to cut German lines of communication in southern Tunisia had been hurled back westward and credited the German air force with heavy destruction of allied base and supply columns In that area-Alliroad and rail transports were heavily and effectively raided direct hits were scored on ah air-ba- se and escorting fighters shot down five allied planes the communique said A German submarine was re ported to have sunk a 5000-to- n allied ship in a heavily-escorte- d convoy off Oran : '" ed |