Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - May 14, 1942, Ogden, Utah WEATHER ers in mountains today warmer maximum t e m day was 49 de- grees minimum 36 early 43 inch precipitation Invest A Dime Out of Every Dollar in U.S War Bonds Seventy-second 325 United Press The Associated Press OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING MAY 14 1942 Wide World KEA Service 18 SECTIONS FINAL EDITION Morgenthau Wants Minimum Levy on Income Tax Blanks Fee of Several Dollars Is Advocated From Everyone EXAMINATION Would Reimburse U S Upon Returns WASHINGTON May 14 AP Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau today a minimum tax of several dollars on every one who files an income tax GENERAL SEES U S NEED FOR MARRIED MEN Family Heads May Serve In War Industries Says Hershey WASHINGTON May 14 General Lewis B Hershey selective service director told the house JURY INDICTS EIGHT FIRMS IN DYE CASE Twenty Leaders Charged With Monopoly Sale Manufacture WORLD-WIDE CARTEL Restricted Production of Chemicals Arms Is Claimed WASHINGTON May 14 justice ment announced today that a federal grand jury at ton N J had in corporations and 20 of their They're Ready If Japs Try Invasion tary committee today it soon i officials on a charge of i be necessary to induct conspiracy to I into the Under existing laws millions of people whose personal exemptions and other deductions exceed their income pay no tax at all even though they have to file returns ing Seek Legal Method But he indicated selective vice has no intention of I Morgenthau said his experts were studying the constitutionality of the proposal and if they found a legal method of having such a minimum he would ask congress to enact it It's Constitutional Later Randolph Paul top sury tax expert sent word to the press that there was no question but what such a proposal would be constitutional Paul said tions of legality could be avoided by calling the special minimum tax an excise instead of an in- come tax The secretary pointed out that a similar tax has been proposed by Senator George man of the senate finance tee who calls it an examination because it would reimburse the treasury for the expense of examining otherwise returns Annually At one point in the press con- ference in which he revealed Continued on Page Three Column Three the army more single men who have been deferred and married men with ing established families if this can be avoided although it may be necessary to shift heads of ilies into necessary industrial war work He Indorses Hershey joined army and navy officials in indorsing with the general provisions of a to provide for compulsory allotments of part of service men's pay toward the upkeep of their dependents with the government supplementing the allotment Hershey said there was an im- mediate and pressing need for the pending legislation under which monthly would be deducted from the pay of enlisted men with dependents and the government would add to this for a wife and additional for each child House Votes Raise The house yesterday voted to raise a proposed a month scale lize the manufacture and sale of dyestuffs The actual defendants topped by the giant E I duPont de Co are Americans but the indictment named as the leading chemical companies in Germany France Great Britain Switzerland and pan along with some satellite cor- in South America and Canada World-Wide Cartel Thurman Arnold justice ment chief said that a world-wide cartel had not only resulted in high prices to the American consumer but also has restricted the full development of the chemical industry which is to our war effort One of the principal means of the Arnold said in a has been restricting production of chemical ates from which dyestuffs are made and from which important munitions particularly explosives CHINA WARNS OF JAP WAR ON SIBERIA Burma Virtually Cleared Of British Chinese Forces U S PLANES ACTIVE Soviets Storm Kharkov Front Against Nazis YANKS ON HAND of pay for privates and apprentice and could be made w powder by the ton is ing out of Ogden from the plant of the Tri-State Minerals company at the corner of Lincoln avenue and Twentieth street This is a new factory and the largest plant of its kind between the Pacific and Atlantic Two carloads of the product are waiting to be shipped to the non face powder people And more shipments will go out to other manufacturers of cosmetics R W Glendinning dent has been installing chinery in the Goddard building since last November and the plant has been in operation for a month with eight employes seamen to and increased from to the rating proposed for first class privates and second class seamen Chairman May D- Ky of the military committee conceded that complications would arise from this action The and figures were voted by the senate and were by the house military committee but the house itself votedi 331 to 28 for the larger amounts The compulsory pay allotment for dependents was ed on the lower senate figures Unless the senate accepts the house amendments without I tion the pay increase auto- goes to a joint conference committee The pay allotment was ten with the idea that a man ting 542 or a month could ford to set aside of that amount for his dependents with the government contributing tional amounts It already has been indorsed by Federal Security Administrator Paul V McNutt and was expected to receive the eral approval of the war and navy departments BASEBALL Other officials said that the case an outgrowth of the exhaustive inquiry into patents and was the most far-flung anti- trust action thus far and rivaled in importance the Standard Oil company New Jersey case which was settled recently by a consent decree freeing thousands of ents for general use during the war Named Defendants These were named Allied Chemical and Dye cor- E I duPont de Co American Cyanamid com- pany General Aniline and Film corporation General Dyestuffs corporation Ciba Company Inc Sandoz Chemical Works Inc and Geigy Company Inc all except duPont having headquarters in New York duPont's are in mington Del The indictment alleges that a conspiracy was begun in 1929 with Symbolical of American manpower reaching Australia is this long line of American force troops disembarking upon their arrival down under They'll back up Gen Douglas MacArthur tries an invasion of the united nations base Aussies Sink Jap Ship And Damage Two Others Nippon Island Bases Hit By Allied Bombers Off Australia By The Associated Press Burma was virtually cleared of British and ese forces today and the Chinese press warned agains a possible Jap offensive against Siberia Threat of a Jap drive against Siberia goes hand in hand with the German offensive in the sian Crimea Chinese newspapers said The China Times said bluntly such a Jap move was highly and the official Central Daily News urged the allies to give Japan no breathing space in the southwest Pacific The army organ Sao Tang Pao summed up the situation Japan is bound to strike when the nazis launch a general ive but a junction is be- coming more difficult in view of the American victory in the Coral sea the British occupation of FRENCH SHIPS AT MARTINIQUE IMMOBILIZED American Officials Help Solve Problems of Possessions Russians Smash Through First of German Defenses RESERVES IN ACTION Heavy German ties Inflicted as Russ Advance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA May 14 and chinese successes in out suddenly at the western flank of the Jap invasion bases north of Australia allied bombers last night sank a Jap ship at the former Dutch island of Amboina and damaged two others General MacArthur's headquarters announced today i 3 elicit agreements involving duPont danzer the leading British German and i real Swiss companies with the German AIR RAIDS SEEN ON WEST COAST Secretary Stimson Notes Real Danger Along Pacific WASHINGTON May 14 AP Secretary of War Stimson said day the possibility of air raids on the west coast was a real ger Asked at his press conference to comment on reports that frequent air raid alarms and blackouts on the Pacific coast were the result of the activities planes Stimson replied that he was un- able to make that assumption They are on their toes out there and very much on the he said I am glad to see them alert because I think there is a dye trust I G largest corporation in the as the keystone At capacity it is capable of i ing out 40 tons to 50 tons of powder in three shifts When News and Views was at the factory on Wednesday four cars of the talc ore were on the sidetrack being unloaded by the workers PIONEER LEAGUE at Ogden due to weather Salt game still uled for tonight One car came from Death ley one from Oasis Nevada an- other from Kingston mountain near Las Vegas and the fourth from Montana The Tri-State is associated with the Southern California Minerals company the biggest producer of talcum powder in the world Having purchased the Goddard three-story building the company is planning extensive ments One of the uses of the powder Is the polishing of rice and while at the plant Glendinning showed me samples of rice treated by this process Puerto Rico demands the ished rice which by the Ogden process has more gloss than any other When placed on the market the polished rice has of cose and powder which is re- moved in the washing preparatory to cooking This talcum also is used in the of paper and is employed as a filler in cotton sheets and cotton products Of late been entering into on Page Two AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia vs Chicago Knott and Wagner Dietrich and Tresh Boston vs St Louis H Newsome and cock and Ferrell games postponed NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E Pittsburgh 102 xxx x x Brooklyn xxx x x Wilkie and Phelps Higbe French 3 and Owen Cincinnati 213 xxx x x New York 000 xxx x x Riddle and Lamanno Carpenter McGee 2 and ning Chicago 100 xxx x x Philadelphia 000 xxx x x Lee and McCullough Melton and Warren St Louis at postponed BULLETINS WASHINGTON May 14 UP Individual card rationing of oline in Oregon and Washington will start on June 1 the date when a 50 per cent delivery order will become tive a high government official said You can't be on the alert out going further than necessary on particular occasions At the same time other allied air raiders attacked Rabaul New Brit- ain on the enemy's opposite flank plastering shipping in the harbor and raining explosives on 15 Jap bombers surprised on the airdrome runway a communique said New Allied Blows The new allied blows warnings by Australian leaders that the battle of the Coral sea has not ended the peril facing this continent and that only continued assaults upon the whole vast work of Jap bases to the west and northeast can avert in- vasion The attack on Amboina former Dutch naval base represented a round-trip flight of more than miles for allied raiders at- tacking from northwestern tralia In addition to sinking one sel in Amboina harbor the allied raiders were said to have scored direct hits on one ship of- tons and another of tons They also set fire to docks Bombers Surprised At frequent target of allied raids three of the 15 enemy bombers surprised on the airdrome runway blew up and others were Burma The only course open to Japan is to turn north and attack beria In Asia authoritative Chinese sources reported that Chinese troops operating only 25 miles southwest of Nanking capital ol the government for conquered China had on the About 100 Japs were killed in the fight it was said It was off on Dec 12 1937 that Jap bombers sank the U S gunboat Panay Defenders of Burma Britain's de- WASHINGTON May 14 AP warships at are being it was authoritatively disclosed today The immobilization is being led out in cooperation between French and American naval and other officials on the spot Other important details of a comprehensive solution of the problem of French possessions in the Caribbean are still being dis- cussed it was said Responsible sources emphasized that these negotiations are being carried on directly with Admiral Georges Robert French high com- missioner on Martinique and that U S is not in any sense dealing with or looking to the Vichy in this matter Warships affected by the agreement include it is understood the aircraft carrier Beam and the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc Reports from Berlin and Bern FOUR INFANTRY UNITS PLANNED WASHINGTON May 14 Secretary of War Stimson an- today the army had dered formation of four more in- fantry divisions and the staging this summer of large-scale tic field maneuvers which will place emphasis on the offensive The divisions latest of 32 to be added this year to the expanding land forces will be organized in September Six others already are in process of formation The new units and their posts division Fort Custer Michigan Camp ridge Morganfield Kentucky 102nd Camp Maxey Paris Texas and 104th Camp Adair Corvallis Oregon U S Concentrates Stove Companies WASHINGTON May 14 AP The war production board look a leaf from Britain's book today and adopted concentration of as a means of keeping civilian industries operating for the duration of the war Using the stove in- dustry as a guinea pig WPB gave small business a new lease on life by ordering large manufacturers of cooking and heating stoves to stop production July 31 and convert to war work After that date output will be concentrated in smaller stove companies less suitable to Army Plans Parade On Memorial Day WASHINGTON May 14 AP The army is planning an imposing parade of the armed forces in the national capital on Memorial day May 30 with naval corps and coast guard as well as army detachments taking part tary of War Stimson said today he parade would include infantry teams field artillery ored force and parachute units among others damaged if not wholly destroyed headquarters declared No allied losses were reported in either raid The Japs however were re- ported to have lost two of six zero fighters which attempted to attack Port Moresby on the southern coast of New Guinea Allied ers credited with shooting down the two planes were reported to have damaged a third Looking ahead to the time when the allies expect to launch an of- fensive from Australia Army ister Francis Forde announced day that conscripted members of the commonwealth's home militia soon would be given an ity to volunteer for service where in the world Ethiopian Prisoners Returned To African Homes By British By WESTON HAYNES Ethiopia April 14 first prisoners to be re- turned to their homelands by the British in this war are hundreds of Ethiopians who were captured during the British conquest of Italian East Africa Taken by the British more than a year ago they now are making their way over the mountains to their farms and tukals after being brought 800 miles to from their internment camp in the dan v They came here in a motor con- voy of than 120 vehicles stretching some five The majority of them were con- scripted by the Italians and were captured as one after another of the Italian strongholds fell until last gave up in No- A few were deserters from the Ethiopian force that fought with the had no need for a were too anxious to reach their homes On a hill three miles short of the prisoners untangled themselves and their equipment and stood before the shack in which a rather dered Ethiopian official formally received this human cargo from the British officer in charge Their last gift from the British was an issue of cigarets The wife of one of the repatriates was on hand to greet her husband The meeting was restrained anc dignified He stood aloof looking at the mountains as she knelt be- fore him and kissed each foot But when she arose they threw dignity to the winds and and kissed and alternately laughed and cried Finally the husband waved he away to his collection of blankets and eating utensils They made c heavy load but shouldering them she followed her Husband now free man up a path into the moun tains fenders of Burma were reported near the gateway of escape over India's Assam border Their along the Chindwin river now was going forward unimpeded by Jap forces sharply checked four days ago near Kalewa United nations lashed ut again at Jap invasion bases bove Australia sinking a on Jap ship at Amboina in the Dutch East Indies and damaging wo others Big U S army bombers struck t the Jap airdrome at Myitkyina n far northern Burma in an ort to cut down the invaders air orce Major General Lewis H headquarters said the U S planes striking from secret ir fields in India set fire to many grounded planes The R A F announced a bombing and machine-gun attack on a paddle steamer and barges the Japs moving up he Chindwin river and said that details on a raid Akyab airdrome yesterday showed bomb lits on runways and among dis- Jap planes t Simultaneously a communique in Chungking disclosed that Flying Tigers of the can Volunteer Group had reached out a long arm to pound the im- Jap air base at Hanoi n Indo-China more than 650 miles southeast of Myitkyina Gen Douglas MacArthur's quarters reported that allied bombers lashing out at the ern flank of Jap invasion bases above Australia had sunk a Japanese ship at Amboina for- mer Dutch naval base and aged two others Other allied warplanes attacked Rabaul New Britain on the site flank bombing ships in harbor and 15 Japanese bombers on the airdrome runway German high command saic izi preying on alliec ships in the Atlantic had sunk nine vessels totaling tons in an attack on an convoy lasting several days Other sank 12 merchan ships totaling tons and in American the high command said that Pierre Laval the French chief of government who favors oration with Germany had advised U S he was ready to immobilize French warships now at Martinique but would not hand over merchant ships berthed there met a cold re- at the state department Negotiations Slow SAN JUAN Puerto May 4 concerning he status of Martinique are eeding satisfactorily it was By The Associated Press Russian armies stormed today at the gates of kov vital industrial city of the Ukraine and launched a in the Crimea which Berlin claimed ever was halted by the nazis Soviet offensives ly on a grand scale were de- clared rolling against the Germans also in the vital tors of Leningrad Novgorod Russa and Moscow A spokesman for the man high command said the Russians had launched a along an old line of fortifications about 13 miles west of the town of Kerch in the Crimea That attack failed the spokesman claimed and German and Roumanian troops forced their way across the line In the Crimea the Russians acknowledged yielding some ground in the battle of Kerch peninsula but disputed the ler high command's claim de- victory Latest soviet dispatches said the Russians were now holding a new line in good order inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans The soviet radio reported that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's raine armies had smashed the ed today after return from Fort de France of Rear Admiral John H Hoover U S navy commander n the Caribbean sea Admiral Hoover completed pre- conferences at Fort de France with the French high com- missioner Admiral Georges ert last Saturday and made a second trip there early this week AMERICAN DIES IN WASHINGTON May 14 The death in an Ecuadorian quake last night of John M Slaughter American vice consul at Guayaquil and Mrs Slaughter was announced today by the state department Slaughter a junior in the diplo- matic service was from South Bend Ind This is another in- said Secretary Hull in a formal announcement of a foreign service family who have given their lives in the service of their country in as true a sense as if they had been killed the battlefield PROVE FATAL SALT LAKE CITY May 14 AP Samuel J Rich 68 died today of injuries received in an auto- mobile accident Monday evening His son Samuel A Rich 37 in- jured in the same reported recovering mishap was Icelanders Oust German REYKJAVIK Iceland May 14 United States army an- that a German long-range bomber sighted off eastern Iceland was driven off today by heavy anti-aircraft fire with no bombs dropped and the extent of damage if any to the raider undetermined There have been evidence of German planes prowling the north Atlantic sea lanes and it was able that this bomber was one of The elder Rich suffered a tured back when the automobile driven by the son overturned on south Redwood road Police said the car skidded on wet pavement Corregidor Loss Claimed BERLIN From German casts May 14 AP Japanese headquarters announced today that U 1 S and Philippine troops on Corregidor surrendered May -6 had numbered that the de- fenders lost 700 dead and that prisoners were taken half of them Americans The last report to the war de- gave men as the defense strength on Corregidor and said there were 3845 men and of- of the navy and marine -in its Manila German defenses before Kharkov and were advancing on the city itself imminently ening the key nazi stronghold All winter Kharkov has been a major obstacle in the path of viet The Russians said masses of red army reserves had gone into tion for the first time against Kharkov and thing is being abandoned by the Germans in great quantities on the field of action Kharkov a big steel and rail center was one of Hitler's key winter defense bases Recent Stockholm dispatches said German troops were massed in the Kharkov sector and described the city as the new field ters of Field Marshal General dor von Bock under Hitler's re- vision of commands Simultaneously a Vichy French broadcast said the Russians had launched massive attacks paced by violent aerial bombing against the German armies at sa and Novgorod about 120 miles south of Leningrad Heavy Fighting Heavy fighting was also ed raging on the Leningrad front where the Germans were said to have thrown new six-inch anti- tank guns into action in a vain attempt to stop the monster soviet Voroshilov tanks Pressing an apparently major attempt to break out of sieged Leningrad red army troops were said to have crumpled the first German lines and captured many important positions in the secondary lines in a ad- vance Fierce action was reported too on the Moscow front with the Russians driving toward the big German winter base at Smolensk 230 miles west of the soviet cap- ital On the basis of all these reports it appeared that the whole mile battle line from Leningrad to the Black sea was aflame in a series of gigantic battles which may decide the war in Europe On Libyan Front On the Libyan front meanwhile British forces operating on the central sector dispersed a ment of 15 axis tanks in a sharp encounter yesterday the British announced officially Another small force of enemy tanks was forced to withdraw un- der a British artillery ment British headquarters re- ported The Italian high command re- ported that British submarines had attempted to waylay an axis con- voy in the Mediterranean but de- clared the raiders failed te
