Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - January 12, 1945, Ogden, Utah The Weather south partly cloudy north portion this afternoon night and Saturday continued mild days and cool nights 203 Temperatures For at a m today 30 29 43 Albuquerque 30 Or 47 63 32 18 Bismarck 24 22 32 Boise 30 25 41 32 Lake 28 47 Chicago 28 Antonio 34 85 Denver 33 Fran 43 35 Grand June 32 41 Las Vesas 30 49 53 Los Angeles 48 22 45 Minneapolis 24 23 29 New Orleans 50 45 New York 21 29 39 City 41 24 The OGDEN CITY UTAH FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 12 1945 MIA AT SECTIONS FINAL EDITION m f Announces I In Utah House SOV Hot Fight Looms When Budget Report Presented By John Hess United Press Staff SALT LAKE CITY Jan 12 UP Speaker W R White of the Utah house of representatives today had an- some 340 committee appointments while lators waited to see how these would affect the issues ning to shape up as the first week of the 1945 session drew to a close The temperature in the house hambers was expected to rise ral Tom Livingood of the joint legislative budget investigating committee set up two years ago by the fifth legislature presents a mental report School Report The report prepared by good and Quayle Cannon Jr unsuccessful can candidate for U S congress last November will oppose state j assumption of support of the Utah vocational school at Provo and in- those at Weber college Ogden and West high Salt Lake City The federal government is expected to abandon support at the end of the emergency The committee urges that the legislature appropriate for not more than one year thus iting another session in the late inter or early spring of 1946 The report also calls for school superintendents to be required to submit separate budgets school lunch programs and suggests a number of accountancy reforms in the roads and finance departments Minority Attacks Rule 45 A large minority of the house led by William Ingleby and Mrs C L Jack of Salt Lake City and supported by the Utah county Ration yesterday tried fully to rescind rule 45 ing the joint committee They charged that the rule included in a book of rules adopted Tuesday had been railroaded through out the knowledge of new bers They questioned the right of Cannon not a member of the to serve on a legislative Continued on FaRe Two Column One Valentines In Right Slot Again By Allan Fisher NEW YORK Jan 12 AP Mr Valentine a cherubic somewhat bald gentleman led the way into his heart throb capital of the said it was his opinion that sentiment this Feb 14 would be channeled in the right direction You want to know why valentines this year are instead of he asked Almost a year ago we began to detect a trend indicating that our GI Joes and Janes wouldn't be interested in patriotic valentines this year How did we discover that? Simple You could do it yourself by watching the movies or the styles or the kind of shows that succeed in the theatres Measuring the sentiment of tomorrow is the business of Mr Valentine who is known in some circles as Stephen Q Shannon di- rector of the greeting card industry Last year the emphasis was on patriotism For this year Shannon's researchers have led to the confection of such a typical valentine as you are my everything You make my dreams come true Forever and forever My heart belongs to you mi m su Jail Fines May Greet Those Who Shun Vital Work WASHINGTON Jan 12 UP Congressional leaders indicated day that stiff fines and prison may replace threats of in- duction as the enforcement weapon in proposed legislation to get all men into essential work Chairman Andrew J May Ky of the house military affairs committee author of the pending o b LC P M There been less feverish on the Persian Gulf area in the last few months It was there that Col Frank Browning was up to a month ago WASHINGTON Jan 12 UP Lieut Gen William S Knudsen army production director today joined advocates of stiff fines and prison sentences rather than induction into the armed forces as the enforcement weapon in proposed work or fight tion The explanation is now under- with the news that key has opened the Dardanelles to the allies From now on supplies for Russia which the American and British have been sending forward will through the waterway from he Mediterranean to the Black known to history as the danelles It was there the British bogged down in the first world war when the Anzacs supported by the Brit- ish navy attempted to blast the Turkish defenses and suffered a humiliating repulse by the Turks assisted by German gunners on the hills of Gallipoli Turkey could have been of in- estimable assistance to the allies two years ago if at that time the Turks had permitted allied ping to utilize the Dardanelles That action would have made un- necessary the herculean task of getting aid to the Russians up through the Persian Gulf and across the desert areas of Iran to the Caspian Sea and on to the south end of the Russian front ing the Germans in the Crimea work or fight said he was willing to abandon the provisions for drafting recalcitrant men into special work battalions in favor of some legal penalty I have never been wedded to the idea that they should go into work battalions especially since the army said it didn't want or need May said But there must be some penalty and I un- that several committee members prefer the fine or im- prisonment now provided under the selective service act Violations of the selective vice act are punishable by fines of up to or imprisonment of five years or both The proposal to substitute legal penalties for the induction visions in May's also found support from Representative Paul J Kilday declaring it obvious that the army navy don't want work he said he would offer an amendment to prescribe legal penalties for men who leave their jobs or others ing who refuse to go into essential work of War Robert P Patterson and Undersecretary of Navy Ralph A Bard told the com- earlier this week that er the army nor the navy had jobs for special service units as proposed in May's but said they would cooperate if congress so ordered There was no doubt however that the government would be far happier if all men in the 18 to year brackets would voluntarily get into war work so that a spe- cial draft would not have to be in- WPB Orders lew Slash in Output Of Han Goods Action Virtually Wipes Out Spot Reconversion Plan WASHINGTON Jan 12 war production board has ordered drastic new restrictions further tailing civilian goods tion The additional tightening a source said today will have the effect of wiping off the books a large percentage of the consumer projects under the spot program This will result from a sharp cut in the allocation of metals for the program due to greatly ex- military requirements New Applications Hit Moreover WPB field offices have been instructed to be very careful in the approval of new applications This means that the spot plan already suspended in about 125 industrial centers is for all practical purposes now on the helf in all parts of the country Dollar volume of projects under the plan was more than as of late De- cember Output will be reduced to a was one authoritative dict Surplus Disappears A small trickle had begun of such products as vacuum cleaners amps and shades lawn mowers sanders and metal razors But now it was explained the surplus of materials on hand when items were authorized has disappeared The additional curtailment comes close on the heels of order freezing all regularly programmed civilian production at levels for the last three months of 1944 That step also dictated Dy mounting munitions ments was designed to keep con- sumer goods output from rising be- vond minimum essential civilian needs WAC Scores By Thieves BOSTON Jan 12 UP WAC Pvt Betty Lee Salash 23 of Medford Mass who single-handedly captured two burglars three years ago sent a message from overseas day to robbers who broke into her parents home and stole in savings and jewelry giving our time our strength and our lives over here for you and behind our rob our homes and cause more unhappiness to our loved Pvt Salash said in an open letter in Boston newspapers Must you rob the kids who are fighting so their families and your family and everybody's family will have a better world to liye It's for people like you that our boys are doging bombs and bullets over here You don't know how lucky you are to be in the good old U S right now men women and little dren are dying over here every minute We are over here to help destroy our enemy so that he can't get to people like you and destroy rights for freedom As for punishment well personally I'd like to do the job on you myself U S Carrier Planes Bomb Japs In Battle Off Indo-China British Join Yanks in Belgium Trains Conventions Hit WASHINGTON Jan 12 Trains conventions and brownouts all figured today in government moves to conserve scarce materials and equipment The office of defense gave a couple of tightening wists to its freeze of passenger rain service by ordering the im- mediate discontinuance of all senger train schedules operated to seasonal service to any re- ort recreational or vacation area line trains haying less than per cent occupancy in ber 1944 are eliminated The war ee on conventions headed by ODT director J Monroe Johnson an- this test for passing upon for permits for con- conferences trade shows r government In what vay and what extent will the war suffer if this meeting were ot The forthcoming brownout er another coal aver will prohibit the use of generated from fuels in hort such as coal and oil Russians Begin Poland Drive Berlin Reports LONDON Jan 12 Berlin reported today that the long brewing Russian winter offensive in Poland had started on a broad front west of the Vistula some 120 miles below Warsaw with an initial impact which drove several wedges in the man defenses Nazi broadcasts reporting the new soviet drive from the long dormant Sandomierz Baranow bridgehead across Vistula said extremely bitter fighting was ing and acknowledged German reverses in the first phase of the battle Russian troops and armor massed in the bridgehead won by the red army last summer mounted the of- fensive after a drumfire barrage by hundreds of guns the Germans reported For several days the Germans had reported patrol and sance jabs from the Russian bridgehead preparatory to the push toward Silicia German artillery had been shelling soviet troops concentrations and columns ing up to the front the DNB news agency reported The first reports of the drive did not make clear its scope but the Russians Nazis Driven Out Half of Sector Won in Offensive PARIS 12 American and British forces joined today in a per operation which virtually eliminated the last remnants of nazi panzers west of the and penetrated most to the heart of the once threatening Ardennes bulge Field Marshal Sir Bernard British troops rammed east to establish firm contact with Lieutenant General George S ton's Third army at the corner of the melting nazi lient southeast of St Hubert now firmly in our control The nazis were fighting bornly at key points to protect the still orderly withdrawal of their forces now almost entirely east ol the On the northern flank the ican First army's Eighty-third in- fantry and Third armored divisions fought through Langlier a mile southeast of Bihain house by house and by late afternoon the town was in their hands while Patton's forces slugged their way north Nazis Lose Half of Area Advance elements of both forces were within four miles of ize key transport center which the nazis must hold in order to retreating elements still en- gaged in the St Hubert corner British troops reported they had entirely cleared out the area west of the Vith highway The Germans have now been driven out roughly one-half the area they occupied at the time of their deepest penetration of the American lines The American army re- ported today that since December 16 it had taken prisoners destroyed 225 tanks 19 guns 627 motor transports 39 artillery pieces 19 guns and captured 14 tanks four self-propelled 114 motor transports and four guns The First army figures are ex- of air force destruction Nazi Pressure Melts Nazi resistance melted away all along a front of more than miles Continued on Page Twol Column Seven Navy Air Ace Gets Medal of Honor apparently were lashing around the bridgehead perimeter out all of the Crash Probe Hated Saturday PORT OF SPAIN Trinidad Jan 2 inquest into the cause of the crash of Pan- American Airways African clipper will be held Saturday it was re- today as company men announced that only two bodies of the 23 persons killed had not been recovered Thirteen victims were buried in a local cemetery yesterday and the bodies of eight others were shipped to the United States Paul John Whitlock lyn N Y his wife and three dren were here among those interred Turkey seeing the handwriting on the wall is proceeding to itself into the good graces of the allies For a time the Turks were 1 and did not dare to offend the ermans Today they see the approaching destruction of Germany and have ventured to throw the Germans overboard 4 An English playwright is quoted as saying his friend was the est man imaginable in that he wrote his wife every day telling how much he missed her Smoke a You're Next To Feel Tobacco Shortage That may said his associate but he never sends her a penny replied the kindness Wonder how much of ting kindness is to be found in our treatment of the boys By Gwen Morgan United Press Staff WASHINGTON Jan 12 Pipe smokers who so far have largely escaped the plight of their brothers may soon be joining them in store counters There been mounting signs of scarcity of many popular brands of pipe tobacco and tobacco in- dustry spokesmen here to seek see if price increases are ranted but Murphy was not ful of the outcome You he said OPA in- sists on considering pipe tobacco production as a part of the cigaret industry which is making money and not as a separate business which is not OPA's comment was that the smoking tobacco men wanted re- lief without delay whereas Budapest Nazis Plead for Help LONDON Jan 12 UP axis defenders of Budapest deci- mated by 18 days of violent street fighting fell back into two narrow pockets on either side of the ube today after radioing a final desperate appeal for help to two German relief columns stalled 15 miles outside the city Soviet front dispatches said the Hungarian capital had become an inferno of bursting shells and ing buildings as red army tanks and armored cars shot their way through the streets in converging drives on the last centers of en- emy resistance in the heart of the city Hundreds of soviet guns massed in the suburbs poured a continuous drumfire into the enemy points from all sides The desperation of the axis sition was revealed in a radio sage sent by the nazi commander and intercepted by the Soviets it is impossible to hold out any the nazis said March Very little Every morning as I come down on the bus I see Continued on Two would become severe by John R Murphy general ager of smaller tobacco said pipe tobacco makers were producing either at a loss or at so little profit it was im possible for them to continue He said raw tobacco prices and other had doubled that the not OPA to permit action The office of price tion promised to make study until investigations were com- Murphy intimated that if things keep on the way they are smokers will have to turn to snuff and chewing tobacco He said the chewing tobacco industry was In good position to take over the ex- pipe and smokers be- cause it had been granted price relief The happiest men he added are manufacturers of spittoons Seven Circus Men Blamed for Blaze HARTFORD Conn Jan 12 PIT Coroner Frank E Healy today held seven officials and employes of the Ringling Barnum and Bailey circus criminally sible for the fire which destroyed the big top July 6 killing 16 sons and injuring 682 Issued after a six-month gation the official finding said the seven are guilty of such wanton or reckless conduct either of com- mission or of omission where there is a duty to act which makes them criminally responsible Healy named the five circus officials who were arrested the day after the fire an with ter Marketing Plans For Fruit Topic J A Howell of Ogden president of the Utah Horticultural society announced to the convention of members in Salt Lake City today a prospective marketing plan to assist in insuring sale of orchard crops He said in I have always thought tha there are two permanent problems which face the fruit growers this state First the betterment of our orchardist practices and the procuring of better facilities and trees more suitable to our climate To this end I have continuously advocated and there has now been established an experimental ard to be operated by the cultural college and all that we need >to do now by cooperation with the college authorities to see to it that that orchard shall serve the fundamental purposes for which it was established and to procure from the governor and legislature the necessary ations to carry on the work with the utmost efficiency and to its ultimate end The other problem is a question of marketing our products and I regret to say that so far nothing has been accomplished which has bettered our marketing conditions and at the end of the year I about confess that I could see no hope in the immediate future of a solution of that paramount problem However as is often the case when the clouds hang the lowest the sunshine of another day is in the offing and so within the last few days a proposition has been made by one of larger canneries which may mately offer a complete solution of the problem It is essential in my judgment that any marketing agency that may be established must have a purpose to be enabled to distribute that portion of our crop which can most advantageously be sold as fresh to preserve in some way canning or by freezing or otherwise distributing the re- mainder to thus transform our fruit into those products which will be to OUT greatest advantage as growers as well as to the This is such a big un- initiate it from he beginning has proved a less ask but this proposition to transform an already existing into a cooperative which will have the necessary facilities to of of as must be processed and at the either through through the already existing cies be enabled to market our fresh fruit it seems to me may prove the answer to oar HE BAGGED 34 PLANES Navy Commander David McCampbell of Los Angeles this war's top navy ace received congratulations from President Roosevelt at the White House after awarded the congressional medal of honor for exploits in the first and second battles of the Philippines He shot down 34 enemy planes AP Wirephoto Turkey Opens Dardanelles Jan British quarters said today that Turkey had granted permission to the allies to ship plies to Russia via the Dardanelles No details were given but the informants said they were under the impression negotiations had handled mainly through tary channels Turkey recently broke diplo- matic relations with Japan ng the last official axis listening post out of the country and de- the enemy of bases for Jap agents who might report on he movement of allied supplies hrough the straits between the Mediterranean and Black sea straits are the easiest and most direct route of supply be- ween the western allies and a Until now the chief routes have been the northern sea Arctic sea route to Murmansk where there are difficult handling problems in winter and the Persian gulf route where a long overland truck and railway route was set up by the United States Persian gulf com- mand An announcement last Sunday said Major General Donald H Con- nolly who set up the Persian com- mand in 1942 was being recalled and that his chief of staff dier P Booth was taking over Appointed Senator JEFFERSON Jan 12 P Briggs Macon Mo Democrat and newspaper lisher today was appointed by Gov Phil Donnelly as S senator for the unexpired two years of term of Harry S Truman vice president-elect Americans Seize Roads Rails in Drive on Manila GEN MacARTHUR'S Luzon Jan 12 AP Rapidly advancing Sixth army in- vaders at gulf have seized more than 10 miles of the San railroad over- run 50 miles of road networks commanding the north ends of four main to Manila and turned what could have been the flank of a good Jap defense line behind the Agno river These are developments for the first 48 hours since Tuesday's -in- vasion Much more remains to be disclosed Today's action up reported communique to Thursday advances in covering morning strength during the previous 24 hours of seven to nine miles in the direction of Manila -a little over 100 miles south Those which added five towns to the more than two score communities captured were limited more by caution and ply lines than by the Japs Beachhead Extended The width of the beachhead along the gulf originally 15 mile's now is 25 with the first real combat contact with the enemy reported on the left flank nine miles east of San Fabian From Lingayen to Manila ican planes ranged over the tral Luzon plains where great tank battles soon may be fought They cratered airfields in and around Manila blew up bridges over which enemy reinforcements are trying to move wrecked trains and scattered columns of artillery and supply American war planes hammered at Luzon targets meeting ble Jap air opposition but heavy ack-ack in the vicinity of Clark Continued on Page Two Column Two Congress Needs Says Senator From Idaho By Allen Drury United Press Staff WASHINGTON Jan Glen Taylor who looks at these things from a professional standpoint he used to tour his state with a guitar as a singing congress ought to put on a better performance for the folks who foot the bUl The way are now lor told reporters tourists just don't get idea congress which is bad for rale of everyone concerned A good public relations director is needed he says In the first place Taylor pointed out don't understand why there may be only a handful of members present on floor when either the or senate s in session He said they don't the goes the have to be run and fact that members usually are absent from he floor because they're tending to the needs of very people condemn them for their ab- sences The freshman senator said a- hari time hearing what goes on o hear pretty well where members use they certainly can't hear well in the senate where he said even senators have trouble A couple of things might be done about it Taylor suggested First the senate chamber might be turned over to some good engineers for a little ful attention which might include remodeling soundproof plastering and perhaps the removal of some of the around the walls Everyone who's been on the stage knows that marble isnt a good reflector of Taylor said And secondly he proposed leries might be closed five utes before a session starts so that tourists can be given a brief ture by attendants on the of congress and the why members shouldn t be considered shiftless loafers simply because they're not in their seats every In any case he said something ought to be done to correct the he's con- there When you've had experience on that sort of he said you sense how the audience is ing The we get so good You couldn't put on a perr like this no- stay Nip Ships Attacked In Daring Raid In South China Sea PEARL HARBOR Jan 12 Third fleet hurled hundreds of carrier planes against Jap forces off the coast of French Indo-China today and there were indicar tions that the biggest naval engagement since the battle of the Philippines last tober was imminent or under Admiral Chester W Nimitz dis- closed in communique last night that Admiral William F rampaging Third fleet had sailed nearly 800 miles west of embattled Luzon in the deepest American penetration yet on the south China sea to challenge the enemy again in his own holds Carrier aircraft of the Pacific fleet are now attacking the enemy off the coast of French between Saigon and Camranh the communique said It was one of briefest of 230 communiques issued by his headquarters since the start of the Pacific war Jap Ships Attacked Use of the phrase off clearly indicated that Jap ships were under attack but whether part of the Jap fleet had been brought to bay or a reinforcement convoy bound for the Philippines had been intercepted awaited ther news from the scene However Camranh bay is con- the fourth best natural harbor in the world with ed anchorages for a number of ships cruisers and de- while Saigon 60 miles to the before the war was French first seaport and a naval base Naval observers speculated That Jap fleet units may refuge for repairs or regrouping at Camranh bay or Saigon after their disastrous defeat in the ond battle of the Philippines last October when 24 Jap ships were sunk 13 probably sunk and 21 damaged Jap Fleet In Action known to have eral battleships and aircraft riers as well as numerous ers in fighting con- dition and it long has been thought that an American landing on zon would reluctant Jap fleet communique did not specify that Halsey's fleet was out the attack that released the news firmed that it was fleet with its huge carrier force under Vice Admiral John McCain ble of putting 1000 planes into he air simultaneously Had Vice Admiral Thomas GJ Kinkaid's Seventh fleet been in- solved it was at- ack would have been announced by General Douglas MacArthur under whose command Kinkaid op- erates Halsey's daring thrust to French the Jap base at Hong Kong and ried to within 700 miles northeast of Singapore keystone of Jap de- enses in southeast Asia which was attacked by American yesterday Finland Relations Resumed By B S WASHINGTON Jan 12 U S is resuming relations with Finland on an informal basis The tate department announced today hat President Roosevelt has proved the assignment of a foreign ervice officer with the personal ank of minister of Helsinki ng his arrival an officer has been from Stockholm den to handle American affairs at tie Finnish capitol F R No Partner in Ward Company Gets Big Laugh WASHINGTON Jan 12 President Roosevelt and other igh officials were entertained by eading stars of radio and stage ast night at the annual dinner of tie Radio Correspondents Comedian Jack acted as master of ceremonies drew a hearty laugh from Mr when he alluded to the hief executive as a partner in Montgomery Ward Co On my way here from the west I stopped off t Chicago to get some new 0 wear for this affair I got my uit at Hart Schaffner Marx and my shirt at Montgomery Roosevelt Dunninger the con- his act turning to audience and three words that the Mr d
