Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - December 28, 1942, Ogden, Utah WEATHER Occasional light rain this after- noon and tonight warmer today For 24 ending a m Ogden Omaha Atlanta Chicago Denver San Grand Jet St Louis Minneapolis Sheridan New New York Seventy-third 189 Wife Slain By Husband During Row The United Press The Associated Press OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 28 1942 AP Features NBA Service 10 PASES FINAL EDITION Mate Attempts Suicide After Young Mother Is Shot RESULT OF DRINK Woman Tells of Quarrel Which She Overhears In Apartment SALT LAKE CITY Dec 28 killing of i young mother and the shoot ing of her husband resulted from a drinking party and a petty quarrel investigator reported today Mrs Lorrayne Stoker old mother of a boy was shot to death last night and her husband Wayne N Stoker hardware buyer was wounded in the stomach Stoker taken to the Salt Lake City hospital was reported in very poor condition this ing Detective Leland Daley said the tragedy resulted from drinking and a petty family quarrel Mrs W C Chapman occupant of an adjoining apartment told Daley that Mr and Mrs Stoker were arguing through the closed door of their apartment Stoker was in their place and she was in the hall having just walked out of my apartment She broke a glass out of the door with her shoe He opened the door and I heard an explosion but did not realize what had happened He picked her up and took her in on the sofa and called me He was crying and tearing his hair He asked me how she was and I said 1 think she is dead Mrs Chapman's son called the police Mrs Chapman said when officers drove up Stoker walked into the bathroom and I heard a shot Stoker was found on the room floor wounded in the ache Daley said a 22 calibre revolver was in his hand Two bullets had been fired from it Mrs Stoker was killed by a shot through the heart Officer H E Jones quoted the husband as saying he had only intended to frighten his wife Mrs Chapman reported the couple had been arguing all Mrs Stoker was the daughter of Americans Bomb i Many Jap Bases Docks in Tunisia Allied Air Power Knocks Out 36 Nippon Planes TOJO WARNS TOKYO Japan Providing Against Air Raids Says War Minister Rommel's Fleeing Forces Hounded By British Eighth Army RUSSIANS ADVANCE Soviet Trap Threatens to Close on Germans In Don Area Mrs Julia Fellows Idaho of Preston At a Christmas dinner on De cember 26 1896 given to 50 un fortunate wayfarers at the S Denis hotel New York Chaunce Depew was the speaker The men had been taken from breadline ait on Broad way and invited to step around th corner to enjoy a banquet Depew wanted to make a speech and so he provided the occasion Ke was reported at great length that By The Associated Press Allied air power on the of- fensive across the southwest Pacific from Burma to the islands was credited oday with knocking down 33 o 36 Jap airplanes damaging t least four ships and ng eight or more Jap bases on week-end attacks These underlined the grim ng which the Jap people were iven by their premier and war minister Gen Hideki Tojo that the real war is starting from ow Tojo Is Worried Tojo in an address to the diet Japan faced hard military at the outposts of her and de- lared that Japan was busy day nd night providing against air aids and preparing for future war He mentioned the Aleutians Burma the Solomons and New Guinea as scenes of potential united nations and estimated that the allies had troops and 600 aircraft in India Tojo declared that reinforcement ind supply of Japanese forces on had become ex- remely and added that the privations and difficulties which Japanese troops have to en- dure in the Aleutian islands are unimaginable Supplies Dropped The navy announced today that the Japs had dropped supplies by parachute to their hard-pressed on Guadalcanal island but he parachutes and their cargo were discovered on the ground and bombed and by U S army planes Navy communique number South 1 Additional reports have been received of the attack by dive bombers from Guadalcanal island on a small group of enemy ships south of island in the New Georgia group of the mons previously announced in navy department communique number In addition to the enemy ship of tons which was announced as sunk near Wickham Continued on Two Column Two By The Associated Press American fliers pressed home shattering attacks on enemy shipping docks and transport in Tunisia Sunday allied headquarters in North Africa reported today Ground activity in Tunisia was limited to patrol action but in Libya Marshal Brwin Rommel's fleeing legions were hounded by the British Eighth army and its flying raiders Nazis Routed German detachments have been routed by allied patrols along the and road and shelled and forced to retire from a farm in the same area west of Tunis an allied communique re- ported today Casualties were in- on the German detachment and several prisoners were cap- tured the communique said Nazis Near Misurata 33 Are Dead 119 Hurt in Train Wreck Troop Train Telescopes Passenger Cars at Almonte WORST SINCE 1910 Soldiers Aid in Rescue Of Victims Near Station ALMONTE Ont Dec 28 holiday passengers were killed and 119 injured many critically when the locomotive of a Canadian Pacific troop train plowed through the three wooden cars of a local train standing in the station last night officials of the railway said today A corrected casualty list was re- leased by the railway after earlier reports had listed 232 casualties including 33 dead Virtually all the dead and in- jured were in the three coaches were taking aboard men women and children at the monte station on the run from Pembroke Ont to Ottawa The troop train was only ly damaged It was moving from the Petawawa military camp Rescue Workers Toil Throughout the night in the flickering light of a bonfire built from the wreckage of the smashed cars rescue workers toiled to re- They Put Can Openers on Diet U S Will Ration Canned Goods In Early February THREE SQUARE MEALS You will need a ration book with Rommel's retreating Africa corps was rapidly approaching Misurata and there it must decide either to make a stand or give up all j Tripolitania and join the axis forces in- Tunisia where ing rains kept allied and axis armies at a standstill American flying fortresses corted by twin-motored Lightning fighters successfully raided Sousse harbor on the east Tunisian coast and one ship was blown to pieces by the shower of high explosives dropped on the harbor and front Warehouses and docks were hit The Lightnings and hawks entering the fray for the second day meanwhile shot up numerous vehicles in forays along the roads by which the Germans are attempting to reinforce their positions All the planes in these attacks returned safely One flying fortress reported lost in the attack on Bizerte Friday tut in a belated appearance It anded in friendly territory some lease trapped passengers and re- move the dead Scattered in the deep snow were vour can opener beginning in February American people wore told in an extraordinary broadcast Sunday evening by Elmer Davis left director of war information and Claude R Wickard right food administrator These two outlined plans to ration all canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables and their juices including soups The system will make sure that civilians on the home front will all go on getting three square meals a they said Food Ration to Insure Equitable Distribution WASHINGTON Dec 28 were broadcast last night to ration all canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables and their juices including soups by Food Ad- ministrator Claude R Wickard and Elmer Davis director of Retail Grocer Leaders Score Ration Policies Hoarders Given Month To Lay in Supplies Says Leader By The Associated Press A spokesman for the tional Association of Retail Grocers and the chairman of the house agriculture tee Rep Fulmer joined today in condemnation of the food administration's announcement more than a month in advance of its plans to ration more than 200 kinds of commercially processed foods by the papers but readin speech after the elapse of 46 years there is much of emptiness He failed to touch on the great problems of the day entering into the lives of the men who were before him and he devoted his time to platitudes Chauncey M Depew's ways have served their day but their day has passed This evening at eight o'clock the war committee of ber county will proceed to dedicate the Federal Recreation Center at 440 Twenty-fourth street The old American Legion teau has been remodeled and made to serve the soldier boys of our present war as a recreation center Under the supervision of the USO the reconstructed building has been made most attractive From now on the soldiers in and around Ogden will be made to feel they have a home in this city which will cheer and com- fort Better to give them wholesome amusement under most favorable environment than to invite them to indulge themselves in able resorts Two Navy Men Shot in Rioting VALLEJO Calif Dec 28 After two days of intermittent rioting between white Negro service men in which two Negroes were wounded by gunfire and four white sailors received knife wounds this teeming navy yard city was quiet today and the tension had eased Last night about service men milled around in a of dis- orders in the streets Saturday night 200 or more clashed in street and barroom fights Tommy guns in the hands of marine corps tary police broke up the disorders last night Leo Arthur Shaw 18 in the left arm and George penter 26 shot in the left leg were the only casualties of the marine patrol's shooting Both are Negro sailors The previous night four white sailors were treated for slight wounds after fights with Negroes That has been the object of the Continued on Pass Two Column Jeffers Hopeful Rubber Sufficient CHICAGO Dec 28 Chief W M Jeffers believes the nation's automobiles tires if prop erly cared for will be sufficient to bridge the gap between the critical condition and the when synthetic production will taki up the slack In a prepared address today a the annual meeting of Illinois high way users Jeffers described rub her conservation as the lifeline o this nation The whole hearted support of every citizen i needed Every driver of automotive vehicle is a member o the team which can keep this na tion on rubber and protect ou national domestic economy Every one must make some sacrifices anc must do it he said festivities torn bundles in the liant color of Christmas wrappings Although civilian's made up the bulk of the casualties at least six soldiers were among the It was they were passengers on the tawa train which was standing in the Almonte station when the troop train crashed into it It was the worst train wreck in Canada since 1910 So great was the impact of the trains that two sizeable trees by the right-of-way were sheared off by the telescoping coaches Police Chief William Peacock of Almonte who was among 150 zens saying goodby to relatives and friends was on the station platform as the engine crashed into the standing train I didn't see the troop train com- he said later There was a terrific crash as it hit the rear end of the other train Residents and soldiers who from its base and on the leaped from the troop train rushed way back shot down a to help the injured Bodies were pulled from the wreckage and en to the town hall which became a temporary morgue hospital facilities could not begin to cope with the situation and even coal bins in the institutions were used to house the injured For hours the rescue operations proceeded Doctors and nurses were rushed to the wreck scene from as far away at Ottawa about 40 miles east of Almonte and every truck immediate vicinity was into service as an 90 fighter and damaged two Patrols Clash On the ground small groups of German and allied forces were meeting in occasional clashes But Continued on Two Column Three Subs Sink Three Allied Vessels By Associated Press Eight more united nations cargo ships last week were announced as sunk in western Atlantic enemy attacks The American two British one Panamanian and two unidentified sunk off the United States in the Caribbean or off South America Fifty-two seamen were reported killed or missing in the sinkings which raised to 572 the Associated Press count of united and neutral nations cargo ship losses in enemy attacks in those Pearl Harbor in the pressed bulance or hearse A plumber ried 10 bodies to the morgue war information The purpose as Wickard ex- it is to insure an able distribution on the home front while supplying the armed forces and our fighting allies who gether will need about 25 per cent of all the food that we produce next year Rationing in this he said does not mean Allied Rumor Hit Speaking on the same program Davis observed that some can food goes to the Allies and said that to hear some people talk you would think that most of it is going to our Allies That s not so What goes to our Allies s less than what goes armed and don't forget that to some extent this exchange of foods works both ways Some British food and a great deal of food is supplied by the ments of those countries to our roops who are stationed there The total sent our Allies is less than what is supplied to our own armed forces it is small com- pared to what is left for us at home Montgomery Retires Prior to the broadcast Donald E Montgomery retiring ers counsel in the agriculture de- a statement testing against advance ment of plans for food rationing He called for the rationing of all foods except cereals and able fruits and vegetables but de- clared that no previous ments should be made in order to avoid tipping off trade tors pantry hoarders and book patriots Wickard and Davis said advance announcement was necessary to give the public time to become miliar with the point rationing Liberty Ship Named Borah Dried and Frozen Fruits Vegetables Also to Be By Cards HOARDERS WARNED Citizens Must Play Fair With Food Supply Officials Says WASHINGTON Dec 23 UP officials having announced that all canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables will be rationed in February began a concerted drive today to prevent a run on available supplies of foodstuffs They appealed to the patriotism tern Roosevelt's Son Receives Medal ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA Dec 23 Lt Elliott Roosevelt who commands a 12th air force graphic unit has been awarded the distinguished flying cross for ism and extraordinary ment in flights made ily with complete disregard for his personal safety The medal was pinned on the president's son yesterday by Maj Gen James H Doolittle American j Leadore Idaho PORTLAND Ore Dec 28 AP A Liberty ship bearing the name of William E Borah late senator from Idaho was afloat today tened by an Idaho school girls Amy 13 of Howe broke the bottle of champagne on the vessel's prow and 14 other Idaho students watched and Mrs Borah widow of the Lion of patted the ship She came from Washington to witness the ing Gov Chase A Clark of Idaho the principal speaker said if this ship will live up to the name it bears it will breast the waves with a strength and determination that will make it- play -an important role in the days to come The entire student body of quarters tended the ceremony Their of- representative was Jack ley 11 Five other students also were present from Miss Amy's school while Russell Anderson of airforce commander on the ian front Petain Denies Giraud Leader LONDON Dec 28 shal Henri Philippe Petain casting from Vichy denied today that Gen Henri Honore Giraud new French high commissioner in North Africa was acting in his name school with the highest per capita collections in the state The sixth Liberty ship to be christened by winners of the school contests the sel slid down the ways at the gon Shipbuilding corporation yards NINE DEE IN CRASH LONDON Dec 28 quoted a German radio broadcast today as saying nine persons were killed injured in the sion of a speeding locomotive with a stationary train in south S Youth Faces Court Tuesday CHINOOK Mont Dec 28 UP Leslie Scifers con- fessed slayer of pretty blond Elaine Allen 15 will be arraigned here tomorrow on a charge of first de- gree murder The proceeding was scheduled for today but was Leslie is expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity It's Useless to Hoard Your Food Says First Lady WASHINGTON Dec 28 UP Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt said today it would be useless for people to hoard canned goods at this time because no one can buy enough to last through the emergency I hope people don't go out and buy and she told a press conference It won't do them any good anyway because they will be asked to declare what they have when rationing goes into effect A reporter that many people might not declare all they have on hand Mrs Roosevelt said their neighbors will probably complain about the things they have It's wonderful what your neighbors know about you way hoarding is stupid because no one can possibly buy enough of any one thing to last until the shortage is over Nelson Lists Arms Increase Production Statistics Show Biggest Rise Since 1940 WASHINGTON Dec 28 AP Munitions production in November scored the biggest monthly gain since the United States began to in the summer of 1940 Donald M Nelson chairman of the war production board reported today that the volume of planes tanks guns ammunition ships and other munitions in November was 12 per cent greater than in Octo- ber as compared with a rise of four per cent October over Although the percentage increase vas smaller than a 79 per cent ain scored in April over March sTelson said the absolute gain vas greater in November because reduction now is in greater The box score for November com- with Airplanes up 18 per cent nance up 13 per cent army and navy vessels up 9 per cent hant vessels up 26 per cent other munitions up 9 per cent Many items that are needed most in the type of warfare now jeing waged in North Africa are among those rolling off assembly ines in greatly increased Nelson said The 12 per cent advance last month pushed the WPA munitions production index up 46 points to 431 compared with 385 in October Yankees Raid Bangkok Japs NEW DELHI Dec 28 large force of American motored bombers dealt a second destructive blow at Bangkok occupied capital of Thailand day night smashing the naval dock area a large arsenal and powder factory and the air field a com- We deplore government officials giving the unscrupulous portion of the public a month to do their said Mrs Rose Marie Keifer the grocers secretary at Chicago She said rationing would be necessary next year but there is no shortage at the present time Sees Buying Wave of all Americans warning that hoarding would jeopardize the war effort and aid the axis They said there would be one-third less of the foods to be rationed next year but enough for a healthful diet Policy Criticized The policy of announcing ing programs in advance of their effective date has been widely But last night three high officials answered that only con- fusion would result if the new program under the points system Fulmer told reporters rationing i were started without time for ex- authorities had promoted a buying planation wive and encouraged hoarding OPA officials said supplies of Some stores reported but canned goods will be rationed also many already had established limits of one or two cans of each food to a customer Chain store executives in New York said the announcement makes it explaining they have limited sales Utah to Cooperate Declaring that grocers will operate with the OPA in every detail of the program Sherman P Lloyd of the Utah Retail Grocers association said grocers generally are glad to see the rationing program come It will solve a big problem for the manufacturer distributor and consumer by giving everyone an equal share of he said H S Tucker division manager of Safeway Stores Inc and of the Utah Chain Store association said the ing program would be a fine thing for civilians and business as a whole in that it would provide an even and normal distribution of essential foodstuffs and make for a normal control of these vital consumers commodities Procedure Scored Rep Fulmer commented in The procedure is ridiculous The announcement this far in advance can only result in a wave of buying and hoarding which will aggravate the situation It is only natural that housewives who use canned foods extensively will start stocking up especially when they are warned in advance that they had better get all they can while the getting is good Fulmer said the decision to tion canned foods amounted to belated official recognition of the truth of the agriculture repeated warnings of the past that a food shortage was ing Henderson pointed out that each consumer registering for the new ration book would have to declare all commercially processed foods in his possession and heavy alties are provided for any cant who makes a false tion announced today The considerable force of Fireman Is Hero Of Train Crash bombers winging the miles across the Bay of Bengal and Burma and back arrived over the target about midnight the com- said The arsenal and powder works in north Bangkok also were hit and fires and damage were ob- served from explosions of heavy bombs in the naval dock area All bombers returned from this raid Old Radio Tubes To Be Turned in Dec 23 Owners of radio sets soon will be required to turn in their old tubes when they buy new ones In making this announcement today the war production board said would mit of tube bases which in some cases can be re- fabricated 111 Dec 28 bravery of a fireman on the cago Northwestern mail train which plowed through the rear coach of the San Francisco lenger Saturday night was credited today with preventing a possible heavier toll of dead and injured Harry B Beisel 32 Melrose Park 111 remained at his post in the engine cab immediately after the crash to close the live steam valves which threatened to scald those remaining in the age He also closed a steam ing line that hampered rescue work The crash killed two trainmen seriously injured a Negro porter and injured 40 passengers The dead were Charles 47 Chicago flagman on the ger and Christian Larsen Chicago engineer on the mail express James Williams Chicago Negro porter suffered a fractured skull broken arm and lacerations Seventeen of the injured were hospitalized Officials have not determined whether the wreck was caused by the failure of a block signal or poor visibility in the area to restaurants hotels hospitals and other institutions The cuts in normal supplies will be to those imposed on the general public The method will be ly the same as that already used for coffee and Restaurants will be required to declare stocks of canned foodstuffs already on hand and they will be required to make returns on the amounts con- during December The rationing of canned dried and frozen foods was announced by Price Administrator Leon son and followed with radio ex- by Secretary of Agri- culture Claude R Wickard and Chairman Elmer Davis of the office of war information All three emphasized the danger of hoarding in the interval before rationing starts and called on Americans to clarify the good of their citizenship during the next five or more weeks If you want to help the axis one of the best ways is to hoard Wickard said Appeal Is Made Henderson We are appealing to every citizen to un- first that he must play fair with the nation's food supply second that there is no tion for rushing put to the nearest grocery and stocking up third that whatever foods to be rationed he has on hand he will have to de- clare before getting a new ration book The new program will begin some time in February The stuffs involved will be frozen for a week before rationing starts ing which time the war ration book No on the points be issued The new ration book will have two types of ones for canned goods including soups and red ones for meat which is scheduled to be rationed soon too Canned and bottled fruit and fruit juices including spiced fruits canned and bottled vegetables and vegetable juices all types and varieties of canned soups Dried raisins etc Frozen berries peaches etc Frozen vegetables asparagus lima green and wax beans coli corn peas etc The new program specifically ex- empts the Candied fruits jams and jellies chili con carne fruit cakes and puddings meat stews containing some vegetables olives pickles and relishes paste products such as spaghetti macaroni noodles and potato salad Fresh Foods Exempt Henderson emphasized that fresh fruits and vegetables and canned and processed foods are exempt from the provisions of the new ration program Meanwhile he will begin ing volunteers to handle registration of consumers and to inform the public how the points ration system works Every member of the civilian born in- fant to the most elderly will have exactly the same number of coupon points to spend diring each ration period Expected to be about a month in duration The periods will be announced in ad- vance Point values for various foods will be identical throughout Continues on Paga Two Column Eight
