Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - July 27, 1942, Ogden, Utah WEATHER Cooler today and tonight with tered mount ain thunderstorms night TEMPERATURE For past 24-hour period ending at seven a Bismarck Chicago Lake Srancl Louis New York Seventy-third 35 The United Press The Associated Press OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING JULY 27 1942 Wide World Nea Service 14 PAGES FINAL EDITION War Tax Advocated On Net Income By N Y Trade Expert Solons Urged to Amend By Killing Tax W Exemptions HOUSE SCORED Payroll Deductions Hit As Terrific Burden Upon Firms WASHINGTON July 27 representative of the York board of trade proposed to the finance committee today that it amend the tax by removing personal in- come tax exemptions so as to raise an additional revenue Suggesting a sales tax as an S L Seidman chairman of the New York tion committee urged the tion of a flat 10 per cent war tax on all net income now free of federal levies because of personal exemptions or credits for ents Calling the house estimated to increase revenues by more than six billions totally the witness said the measure ought to be broadened sufficiently to reach upwards of sons instead of the he said now paid federal tax Scores House Plan Seidman contended that a approved proposal for the advance collection of individual income taxes by 5 per cent deductions at the source on pay checks interest and dividends would a terrific burden upon business ready overwhelmed by requirements Business firms Continued on Page Two Column Six So far this year Utah has had more deaths than Idaho from traffic accidents Up to July 27 the deaths in Utah 77 and in Idaho 47 This greater loss of life in Utah is a severe reflection on driving in this state Get in your coal for the coming Do so now or go cold the storms of winter arrive This warning has been given by Ickes who predicts that in less than three months trucks and trains will cease to be able for the coal business By that time the rush of war equipment will be on in greater volume to exclusion of coal On the envelope of a letter re- from President A T Mercier of the Southern Pacific to News and Views this tion is in purple Victory Trains Are If you go to the local yards the meaning of that ment will be disclosed Long trains loaded with war terials will be seen making up much of the traffic now flowing through this city A week ago yesterday the inal did the biggest business in its history Thousands of cars were moved and a percentage of them went over the Southern Pacific As these trains roll on and on they are contributing to the tory that is coming Not or tomorrow but eventually that victory will ie achieved Contractors on the naval base are bringing in what are known as igloo huts to house their ers Plans call for ISO igloos each hut having a capacity of 16 men That is the proper thing to do for many of the workers will need only temporary quarters which not be provided in Ogden or by communities With the improvised living places Continued on ruga Two k Column Two WRITERS HELD BY JAPS TELL OF SUFFERING Describe Confinement Torture in Nippon Detention Camps By Press Accounts of a Japanese face-saving effort that fired of a vast web of tal intrigue with which Japan prepared for her conquests and of bitter suffering of American and other nationals who fell into Japanese hands were given over the week-end by Associated Press newly freed from Japanese detention Their dispatches came from renco Marques Portuguese East Africa where the exchange of some citizens of thp United States and other American nations for a similar number of Japanese and Thai nationals has just taken place The liner now bearing the permen missionaries and is to sail for New York tomorrow Attempt Failed The face-saving attempt which flopped was related by Max Hill chief of the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo when war came After first trumpeting to the world that nine of the American bombers which raided Tokyo April 18 were knocked the Japs reduced their claims to one and put the wreckage on display in Tokyo to prove it But Japanese who came to gape smelled paint and sure enough the red white and blue of the U S air force which had been freshly daubed on still was wet Hill told of long weeks he spent in solitary confinement in ing weather bereft of his shoes and with scant food of the taunt of a sullen This is Relman Morin Associated Press chief of bureau in Tokyo to 1940 who travelled through southeast Asia on a told of the workings of intrigue and fifth column activities which laid the groundwork for Japan's quick cesses in Malaya and Burma While Japan and Thailand were pretending mutual hostility he said Thailand actually was a party to Japan's plans to use transport fleets moving into the gulf of Siam as early as August and September last year Traitors Led the Way Morin said the Japanese gence service learned of British military dispositions in Malaya down to the last detail and had special landing forces practicing on the French Indo-China coast long before the Dec 7 attack Then traitors in Malaya led the invaders through the jungle forcing the British to retire continually to pre- vent severance of their cations In Burma he said it was the same story From Edwin Koons ian missionary who was imprisoned in Korea Morin obtained the story of how the Japs administered the water cure to the clergyman They tried it once and I Koons who has a chronic heart condition told Morin A few days later beating my back and soles of my feet with rubber hose they said I needed more water but at the last minute they decided otherwise Well sir just to show them I wasn't scared I said I really was thirsty after so much talking and asked for a small A picture of the plight of Continued on TWO Column Three HAMBURG HIT IN Block Buster Bombs and Incendiaries Used In Night Raid WEIGH TWO TONS Nazis Biggest Sub Base Shipyards Airplane Plants Blasted LONDON July 27 UP An air fleet estimated at 600 or more big bombers pounded the great German port and U-boat center of Hamburg with block buster bombs and thousands of in- during the night in an attack which the Germans admitted caused heavy age The assault mightiest since the R A F's attacks marked a resumption of Britain's annihilation offensive The raiders chose as their targets the great shipyards bombing plane factories Adolf Hitler's gest submarine works and a base for the supply of nazi garrisons along the potential second front in western Europe Damage Extensive The German high command considerable civilian casualties and numerous buildings statement regarded by British observers as an ad- mission that both damage and casualties were extensive The air ministry admitted that 29 bombers were lost the at- tack made in excellent weather The Germans claimed that 37 of the raiders were shot down and in- as usual that the British bombs for the fell on German planes making scattered raids on about 23 British targets during the killed more than 40 persons and injured scores of others Many persons were trapped in Continued on Pago Two Column Four Region Where Russia Fights Invader Maritime Group Shelves Probe WASHINGTON 27 The house merchant marine com- today shelved a resolution calling on the maritime commission stay its cancellation of a con- tact with the Higgins ing corporation of New Orleans lending completion of the investigation Chairman Bland an- after a closed session that the committee felt that more good could be accomplished by ng with the investigation without assuming responsibility for the contemplated by the tion FRENCH REVOLT SEEN BY AIDE LONDON July 27 Andre Philip escaped French un- leader said today that an allied invasion would throw ail occupied France into immediate revolt Philip who reached Britain to join Gen Charles de Gaulle while being sought by the gestapo warned however that an unsuccessful invasion would result in a terrible slaughter by the mans If an affair like St Nazaire when the people fought alongside the commandos is repeated two or three times then the slaughter by the Germans will break the people's he said He said that despite bloody blows by the gestapo largely in Paris French underground resistance had grown steadily since the United States entered the war Philip said the underground in France now takes direct from de Gaulle and considers itself a of the ing French within France He said that although France was expecting a bumper farm crop this year Chief of Government Pierre Laval was sending so much to Germany that people in cities were starving Rent Director in Utah Is Named SALT LAKE CITY July 27 AP J C Halbersleben Provo attorney has been appointed rent director for the Provo district The made in Denver by Clem W Collins re- gional administrator of the office of price administration with whom Halbersleben has been in ence A director also is to be for the Salt Lake dis- which includes Salt Lake Davis Weber and Morgan counties I A t SOVIET RUSSIA Kanevskaya Krasnodar WAR TARGETS This is the Russian region of rivers and railroads where German forces have driven to Rostov and threaten Stalingrad and the north Don region with thrusts U S Warplanes Fight Japs Over Lh 1 CHUNGKING July 27 Fighter planes of the U S air force battled Jap warplanes over Chungking tonight during the enemy's first raid this year on this capital of free China The United States fighters part of the new U S air force com- mand in China under Brig Gen Claire Chennault went the air at the first alarm to intercept the raiders it was stated officially The slight damage caused by the raiders was in suburban area of Chungking The first raid alarm sounded at p m and American planes immediately took off from a western China base to engage the invaders The Japs came from Hankow it was reported and while 50 of the enemy craft were believed to have started on the mission only 27 of them reached across the Kailing river from Chung king Four planes that flew over Chungking headed westward and it was believed were inter- by United States fighters Bombs released by the raiders fell far from their targets in The Japs took advantage of a full moon for the raid but when they reached capital and ters of Generalissimo Chiang Shek low clouds had gathered that somewhat visibility The enemy planes reached the area of Chungking at eight-thirty p m and the all clear signal was sounded at PRICE CONTROL PLANS PRESSED WASHINGTON July 27 The office of price administration preparing to tighten up ment of the general maximum price regulation has pledged protection to honest storekeepers and the buying public against deliberate chiseling penny profiteering Effective July 31 officials noted a section the emergency price control act makes violators of price ceilings liable to civil injunction suits action to revoke licenses and suits for treble damages U S SCORES IN Attack Listed as est Bombing Success Of Battle CAIRO July 27 States army bombers scored one of their biggest cesses the war in a night air raid on axis supply base of Tobruk where great fires were started it was disclosed today The American bombers ably Liberators hit gasoline dumps and other targets in the Auto Inspection Deadline Looms SALT LAKE CITY July 27 AP Supt P L Dow of the Utah patrol warned motorists day that Friday is the deadline for state automobile inspection The deadline will not be ex- tended beyond that time he said Under state law motorists ing to have stickers on their shield showing their car is in good working condition are subject to arrest BASEBALL NATIONAL York postponed St postponed Cincinnati Philadelphia Only games scheduled New postponed Boston xxx xxx xxx x x x Cleveland xxx xxx xxx xxx Hughson and Con- roy Desautels Only games Hypnotic Trance Brings Leap And Lands New Paratrooper SAN DIEGO Calif July 27 Richard Hayward battalion com- William F Sehroeder HI 20 i mand and nine other devil dogs of Rock Island 111 was a fledged sky warrior today because he became so fascinated watching I had watched 40 men go out marine paratroopers leap from of the plane on four previous trips their transport that he made an unexpected jump himself from only 800 feet altitude was though I was under- the spell of a hypnotic der said in of the perilous first A naval medical corps officer Sehroeder was transferred from the navel air station here as acting flight surgeon to Camp Elliott An aviation enthusiast since his days as an interne in St Luke's pital Denver he became interested -in the parachute battalion ing at the marine cantonment Sehroeder was assigned to company groups of machie para- troopers as an a ies of practice jumps Four plane loads of 10 men jumped after the officer had taken their blood pressures pulse readings and observed their physical con- ditions In a fifth plane load were Maj and I stood by der said in an interview I began wonder how it felt to jump and I realized from a purely medical point of view that my observations could not be complete without that climaxing experience As the 10 men jumped one after the other in quick succession I fell into what now seems like a hypnotic trance and an instant after the tenth man leaped I just followed him out as though im- by some strange force The officer equipped with an ordinary parachute but had no emergency The other chutists were amazed when they saw the doctor ground with them attired in It was a thrill 1 knew I wanted to repeat many times so I im- mediately applied for paratroop duty to surprise the re- quest was Sehroeder said CAIRO Egypt July 27 AP The lull in action of the ground armies on the El Alamein front was broken last night when Brit- ish forces launched a limited at- tack in the northern sector Brit- ish sources said today raid on Saturday night Fires were burning Sunday night when allied planes returned to the scene and bombed the dock area It was considered to be the United States unit's greatest cess since their attack on the Italian the R A F news service said The Italian fleet was attacked and hit by about 35 bombs when it attempted to intercept a British convoy en route to Malta in the first U S air corps action over the Mediterranean The Americans attacked through layers of clouds which often pre- vented them from seeing their targets as they the news service added A direct hit was made on a ship in the harbor and a big explosion resulted Long fighter planes at- tacked troop and supply barges in the Sidi area of the tian west of the Alamein battle line Reward Out for Berlin Firebug STOCKHOLM July 27 UP Heinrich Himmler chief of the German gestapo has offered a reward to persons who assist police in rounding up persons who nightly set fire to big apartment in Berlin the newspaper Dagbladet reported Before the war a mark was worth about 40 cents Prices Pegged on Crop Containers WASHINGTON July -27 UP The office of price administration today established ceiling prices for western wooden agricultural con- used and ing fruits and vegetables at est levels of last October and No- Nazis Penetrate Main Rail Route To Caucasus Fuel ALLIES CLASH WITH NIPPONS IN NEW GUINEA MacArthur Makes Thrust In ion Sector GENERAL MAC AR- THUR'S HEADQUARTERS Australia July 27 Allied patrols have clashed with the Japanese 30 miles from the new enemy invasion base on the north New Guinea coast it was revealed today Gen Douglas ing skirmishing in the new area said in his communique that allied air units maintained a continuous attack which had cut the base off from its mother fleet and ened to smash it entirely Its First Clash The first clash in the new in- vasion area in the area across the mountain road from the allied base of Port Moresby both that Allied patrols had deep toward the enemy tion and the Japs had lost no time in moving out from it In a second ground action the Allied patrols killed about 60 anese who attacked their positions at muno only 15 miles south of the great enemy base of 150 miles up the coast from Buna There was intensive aerial ty in Australian zone throughout TdW Darwin The attacked Darwin the north coast Australian base Saturday and again Sunday night with light forces they made the first aerial attack on a lated northeast coast point day night with an ineffective raid on Townsville 660 miles south of Cape York and 700 miles up from Brisbane on the east coast In their raids yesterday on the area the allied planes struck at building installations anti-aircraft and machine gun teries and food and ammunition dumps It is believed the area was badly the communique said One Japanese fighter was shot down others were seen receiving gun bursts Two allied planes were missing from the fight SECRET WEAPON IS DISCUSSED WASHINGTON July 27 Behind closed doors the senate naval committee approved today a naval expansion gram which contemplates a 000 expenditure for secret training and a mysterious new weapon Twenty-two Take State Bar Exams SALT LAKE CITY July 27 One woman was among 22 rants who today began the day Utah State Bar examination in the capitol building She is Mrs Florence Austin Linsley of Tooele recent graduate of the University of Utah law school Her husband Edward G was admitted to the bar March 17 The special examinations were moved forward from October to accommodate many of the dates who expect soon to enter the armed forces BULLETINS WASHINGTON July 27 AP Andrew J Higgins told a house merchant marine sub-committee investigating the steel situation today that cancellation of his con- tract to build 200 cargo vessels at New Orleans would the government between and WASHINGTON July 27 UP The senate today passed and sent to the White House a to in- crease the salaries employes in the lower brackets STUDENTS REGISTER SALT LAKE CTTY July 27 AP Registration for the University of Utah post session opened today Students may register until day Registrar Ronald B son said The session continues until Aug 21 Germans Halted ever on Front NEW RUSSIAN CRISIS Nazis Say Seized Bisecting Line to Oil Fields By The Associated Press Berlin announced today a penetration of the Caucasus south of Rostov on the Don on the main rail route into Russia's greatest oil fields but farther up the Don in the area where the invaders had forced at least two crossings the Germans had been halted Moscow said The battle of Russia had reached its gravest stage thus far in 1942 Berlin claimed that the strongly fortified town of had been captured by forces which engulfed Rostov last week and later spanned the Don Estuary south and east of Rostov Main Rail Oil Line The main railway and pipeline which parallel the Caucasus tain range bisecting the Caucasus southeastward to Baku on the Caspian pass through There was no confirmation from Moscow for this or the older claim by the nazis that Rostov had been taken The Germans hurled into battle the great weight of reinforcements they against the north Caucasus and Stalingrad on the Volga sendr ing tanks arid planes in a furious assault in an effort to widen their footholds south of the Don river near Moscow said U S Planes Used The Russian air force using some U S bombers and fighters pounded the moving columns of German men and guns by light and under the nearly full moon by night The whole steppe land was eerie with flames Bombs burst over great areas of the gentle grassy slopes and the plains waist high with grain The Russians reported they were holding their positions against the tremendous onslaught last Rail Link The way last rail link with the casus undoubtedly has undergone heavy bombings There were ever no reports suggesting that German land forces had reached this line which runs south of the Don barely 50 miles from ansk The Russians announced that the battle for the Caucasus con- through the night at 300 miles north of Rostov the northern flank of the Germans eastward and southern offensive and in the vicinity of Rostov and Novocherkassk lies 20 miles northeast of Rostov and ansk on- the north bank of the Don 120 airline miles northeast of Rostov The Germans already have claimed the capture of In the area born fighting for additional crossings in said the Moscow communique The mans are trying to force the river Don simultaneously in several one sector a big tank battle is in progress our men have pinned down numerically forces and prevented them from advancing Fierce Combat The communique said that fierce combat continued on the outskirts of Rostov but that in one sector the enemy had broken into the heart of our defenses Fifty man tanks were reported destroyed in the Rostov and zones In the Voronezh fighting the Russians still were attacking and in single sector killed about Germans in one day and downed three planes with rifle Eire the Moscow communique stated The Russians claimed moreover that an had been occupied in the Bryansk region northwest of Voronezh and west of Moscow wifch a German mechanized regiment routed ng dead the remnant of 300 men as prisoners and 20 disabled anks A crowd estimated ions jammed Trafalgar Square in yesterday and shouted for a second front even after being told it might mean another battle of Britain an attempted sion of Britain and hardships such as the people of these islands had not had to endure before
