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Call The If you don't receive TOUT before 6:30, call 495 befotrfS o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. The tat her FoncMt for awl Warner today, little temperature tonight. Temperatures: High Low OTAH'3 DAILY SOUTH OF SALT PRICE FIVE CENTS FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 14 1 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943 SPEZIA. FREDRICHSHAFEN IS BOMBED SHORTAGE IN MEAT TO BE ALLEVIATED Large Slaughterers To Receive 10 Per Cent More Of Pork 5 Thousands of Miners Refuse to Obey Order Of Lewis to Go Back Threat to Steel Production Continues More Blast Furnaces Forced to Shut Down in Eastern Steel Belt F.D.R: SEEKS DRAFTING Of COAL CHICAGO, June 24 The war meat board moved today to alleviate the civilian meat shortage by recommending that large slaughterers be permitted to increase their deliveries of pork to civilians by 10 per cent during the next three months.

The board recommended, however, that slaughterers who increase their civilian sales between July 1 and Oct. 1 be required to reduce deliveries by the same amount during the succeeding three months. The recommendations were made to the war food administration and the office of price administration, which will make the final decision. Only large slaughterers, those whose quota is more than 500,000 a quarter, would be affected by the plan. The meat board said its recommendations were being made to prevent further declines in hog prices which have dropped recently because of larger, receipts and uncertainties regarding the effect of price rollbacks -and subsidies- The board also recommeded: 1.

An allowance commensurate with the cost of freezing fresh pork for delivery to the war procurement agencies. (This adjustment would place the gains from pork sold to the war agencies as frozen pork on a comparable basis with that sold to civilians, is not required to be 'frozen.) 2. A revision in the boxing allowance commensurate with revised costs of boxes to processors. 3. Preparation and execution for use, if necessary, of custom slaughtering and processing contracts to permit the war food administration to purchase hogs at the support level.

In announcing its recommendations, the meat board said that recently hog prices had declined t.o near the support level of $13.75. Chicago basis, for good and choice 240-270 pound butcher hogs as set by the war food administration last April. Earlier, W. O. Fraser, vice chairman of the war meat board, today reported "virtually no improvement" in the beef shortage.

Crop Outlook Is More Favorable WASHINGTON, June 24 The weather bureau today eased somewhat the fears of short crops with most favorable weekly weather report this year. Food administration officials warned against too much optimism, pointing out that crops are just entering the critical growing season and that continued favorable weather will be necessary if normal yields are to be obtained. The weather bureau said that on a nationwide basis the past week "bought the most favorable agricultural weather of the season to date," enabling farmers to regain part of the ground lost by previously unfavorable conditions. There was, however, intensification of the southwestern drought" and an increasing need for rain in many places from Arkansas and Louisiana eastward. I Corn Processors May Close Plants CHICAGO, June 24 A I score of the nation's largest corn 1 processing companies, warning their plants face imminent re, appealed to the federal 3vernment today to relax -price which they are the normal flow of corn- corn supplies.

manufacturers of corn pUicts in Illinois, Indiana, Wis- and Iowa, reporting stocks icient to maintain produc- for no more than two ated that the shortage threet- tbe naion's supply of bread, syrup, beer and textiles. BY UNITED PRESS Thousands of coal miners, refusing to obey the order of their union and its president, John L. Lewis, failed to report to the mines today, raising anew their threat to steel production, essential ingredient of the war effort. In the central and western Pennsylvania fields, which produces the coal for the bulk of the nation's steel manufacture, only 20,000 of 125,000 miners returned to work. Many of them voted to stay out, despite the back-to-work order of the United Mine ers union, until they had a contract embodying their wage increase demands.

Their action was reflected immediately in the great steel mills of the Pittsburgh district turning. out armor plate for warships and steel for tanks, guns, and ships. Carnegie-Illinois Corporation, the biggest producer, already had been down five blast forced to shut furnaces which had been producing 2,900 tons of pig iron a day, and the Shenago Furnace company was forced to bank one of its two blast furnaces at Sharpsville, Pa. Situation Officials of the United Mine Workers' locals insisted that the men would "cool off" in a day or two and then decide to obey Lewis and resume mining coaL The chief grievance of the miners appeared to be the refusal of the war board to grant them a substantial increase in their, daily wage, but President Roosevelt's threat to have strikers drafted into the army was said to" have enraged them, further. John P.

Busarello, president of the union's District Five, which covers western Pennsylvania, said: "The president's statement hasn't done the situation any good and has made the men that much sorer. Some were very bitter when they talked to me." But he thought that more, men would report for work tomorrow and that almost all might be back by Monday. The revolt of the rank and file against Lewis' order was greatest in the central Pennsylvania region where only 2,847 men of 45,000 were back at work. Twenty-three central Pennsylvania locals voted last night to remain on strike. Workers of seven locals which had voted to return, reported for work this morning, then changed their minds and went home.

At one of these mines, pickets from a neighboring mine whose local had decided not to work, turned the men back. The situation at the captive mines of the big steel producers, which provide the fuel for the blast furnaces and coke producers upon which steel depends, best illustrated the increased threat of the steel plants. The H. C. Frick Coke U.

S. Steel subsidiary which turns its coal over to Carnegie-Illinois, reported that only eight of its 14 Pennsylvania mines were operating and those with approximately onethird of their normal crews. Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation, reporting that all four of its mines remained closed, said it would be forced to curtail steel production if the strike continued long. Steel had only two of six mines functioning at all. The Pennsylvania situation was typical of those in the other coal Coal Rationing May Be Necessary Declares Ickes WASHINGTON, June 24 Administrator Harold L.

Ickes said today that the 'three coal strikes in the past two months had aggravated a fuel shortage which may make it necessary to ration coal. Ickes told a press conference that the mine stoppages had left the country lagging behind its coal production goal. Asked about the possibility of coal rationing next winter, he said: "We are discussing it. A situation might develop quite rapidly in which we might have face that question." OPA officials "previously had revealed that they were working on plans for rationing coal when and if Ickes found that it was necessary. Ickes said the sudden demand for coal to reinforce depleted stock piles might overload transportation facilities and aggrave the problem in that way.

He said that the northwest might "be hit first" by any shortage. Asked about other sections, he said, "it depends on. their stock piles. No part of the country is situated too welL" An aide of Ickes said that any coal rationing system probable (Continued on Page Two) 1943 Statute Bars Legislator From Holding New Job SALT LAKE CITY, June 24 (OP) act passed by the 1943 Utah legislature, barring legislators from holding state offices, appeared today to have more teeth in it than was generally suspected. In an opinion from the attorney general's office, requested by R.

H. Dalrymple, member of. the state industrial commission, it was held that a member of the legislature can not hold any state position, whether directly appointive or not, and regardless of whether -the legislator has resigned. To be affected by the.opinion was Rep. E.

Clyde 'Sabin, Carbon, who had been employed to act as general inspector at the Geneva steel plant He submitted his resignation on the day he was to have assumed duties at the plant The company said they had no choice but to release Sabin. under on Page Two) the provisions of the state statute: Plan To Raise Draft Age Limit Meets With Opposition By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 24 (U.R)—Reaction to President Roosevelt's proposal to raise the draft-age limit to years and to draft strikers today indicated stiff opposition in and out of congress. "The army is no penitentiary; it's an honor to be a soldier," was the typical reaction of those opposed to the suggestion, i In addition, most supporters of the Connally-Smith anti-strike bill, now awaiting the president's i signature or veto, objected. They' interpreted the president's suggestion as a strong indication that he plans to veto the Connally-Smith bill. Among those objecting to the use of the army as punishment were Chairman Harry S.

Truman, of the senate committee investigating the war effort; Rep. Howard W. Smith, co-author of the anti-strike bill, who thinks it would be "an affront to soldiers on battlefield," Rep. Forest A. Harness, who called it a "slave labor" plan.

Two Approved Germany Orders Evacuation Of 3,000,000 Civilians From Bomb-Shattered Ruhr Valley JOSEPH W. GRIGG United' Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 24 has ordered the evacuation of 3,000,000 civilians from the bomb- shattered Ruhr and massed more than 1,000 fighter per cent of her entire Western Europe for a desperate attempt to fend off relentless allied bombing fleets, European reports said today. Berlin dispatches to Swiss newspapers said that the evacuation of non-essential civilians from the Ruhr, rocked by more than 10,000 tons of bombs in the past month alone, had been ordered completed by the end of this week with German authorities frankly acknowledging -that many inhabitants of the devastated valley had "lost their nerve." German propaganda broadcasts, under a new policy of publicizing air raid damage, said the Royal Air Force had "practically erased" the city of Krefeld, ort the western rim of the Ruhr, Monday night and reported the populations of both the Ruhr and the Hhineland, together constituting Germany's principal source of arms, had been subjected to "unbelievable raids." The British and subsidairy American raids on Germany obviously were designed to test the theory that a country can be out of the war, as well as to reduce the nazi war potential. An RAF commenator said yesterday that the RAF alone had dropped more than 15,000 tons of bombs on western Europe in 11 night; raids during the past month. Fully realizing how much is at stake, Germany has mounted at least 30,000 anti-aircraft guns and tens of thousands of searchlights, in addition to the fighter planes in western Europe, largely along a belt 2DO miles long and 20 to 50 miles deep stretching from the North Sea along Germany's west- edn borders, according to information reaching British aircircles.

Night fighter strength along the Ruhr Hinterland alone has been more than doubled in the past year nad several hundredi planes were believed to have been rushed (Continued on Page Two) William Golmer, Mistf and Sen. Harry F. Byrd, however, approved the plan, calling attention to "work-or- fight" bills they have introduced. From the mine fields the reaction generally was one of resentment. The miners are returning to the pits slowly after United Mine Workers' President John L.

Lewis called off their last strike. An estimated 12,000 miners in Pennsylvania have voted to stay put and another 9,000 have delayed their decision on returning to work until later. Typical miner reaction to the president's threat came from John J. Hanratty, SJMW international representative at Birm- inghanv who said: "Army service holds no fears for coal miners. Work in a coal pit is far more hazardous than fighting on a battlefront.

There were 75,000 accidents involving coal miners last year." The president's plan would permit drafting strikers, putting them in uniform and assigning them to work at army pay. He made the proposal late yesterday in a statement denouncing Lewis and other UMW officials for this week's two-day in the coal fields. Mr. Roosevelt said that before the miners were ordered back to work the administration had taken steps to set up machinery for inducting all striking miners subject to the selective service law. He said he planned to ask congress to raise the age Jimit for non-combatant military seiv ice to 65 years to strengthen the draft weapon.

The legal limit (Continued on Page Two) Fruit Harvest li Utah Couty To Be Heavier Than Last Year LOGAN, Utah, June 24 A record fruit harvest was anticipated in Utah for 1943 by leading state agriculturists today. Dr. Arvil L. Stark, extension horticulturist at the Utah State Agricultural college said forecasts for fruit crops throughout the nation indicate a "fair" crop, while the state itself will probably have a most bountiful year. He said the peach yield may well double itself in Utah in IMS, while the cherry crop may he up one-third over last year's heavy crop.

Pear crops, too. show a large increase, as do apples, he While government figures were unavailable for the apricot crop, Stark said favorable. prospects appeared The bureau of agricultural economics reported that vegetable crops, too, looked good. Potatoes are planted, and sugar beet thinning is underway, an official report said. Price of crops in Utah should be good this year, too, the experts agreed.

In Utah county the fruit crops are generally considerably better than last year but' are not as bountiful as in some years by any means. Clarence D. Ashton, assistant county agent, said -cherry strawberries and raspberries are lighter than last year on the average, out other crops wifl be heavier than in 194J when the frost mensM-Ut Roosevelt Makes Three Diplomatic Nominations Today WASHINGTON, June 24 President Roosevelt today made three important diplomatic nominations: Ray Atherton to be minister to Canada; William C. Burdett to be minister to New Zealand, Jap Cruiser Bombed In 2000-Mile Raid BOMB RAID INNOVATION IS TRIED OUT Shuttle Service New Maneuver To Be Tried By RAF and Loy W. Henderson to be minister to Iraq.

All are -career men the U. S. foreign service. in Denmark and now acting chief of the state department division of European affairs, also will serve as minister to the government of Luxembourg now established in Canada. He' succeeds the late Jay Pierpont Moffat, who'died last January.

Burdett succeeds Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, now on active duty with the United States army, fulfilling special missions for. the president.

Hurley's last announced assignment was a tour of the near, and middle east for Roosevelt. He submitted his resignation as minister to New Zealand.as he undertook this mission. Henderson will fill a new -position as minister to Iraq. Thomas M. Wilson is now minister resident there.

and coun 1 general BY DON CAS WELL United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 24 (U.R) bombers, flying 2,000 miles in the second longest raid of the war by land-based planes, hit a Japanese cruiser and set big fires with a 38-ton assault against Macassar ivm on Celebes Island, it was nounced today. A strong force of Liberators' from Australia carrying bombs weighing up id a ton, staged the attack, which a spokesman said was topped for distance only by a 24000-mile roundtrip raid from Hawaii to Wake Island. A communique reported heavy damage was evident at the Japanese air base at Macassar. Several hits were scored on the town and its wharves and resultant fires could be seen 70 Direct hits with heavy bombs were scored on the cruiser moor- Be Vatera Wins Another Term DUBLIN, June 24 Eire voters returned the government of Prime Minister Eamon de Valera to power with a strong vote of confidence, returns from Tuesday's election indicated today. Three key members of the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) party were beaten, among them Gen.

Ricrard Mulcahy, a party vice president De Valera's Fianna Fail party held a majority with over haft the vote counted for the Dail Eireann, the lower house of parliament Both the major parties lost ground slightly to the Farmers: and Labor parties. The nation's neutrality was not an issue since practically all candidates agreed it should be continued. De Valera's administration, which took office in June, 1938, attacked main-, ly on questions such as handling' of the price, wage and food supply problems. The Fine Gael's proposal, top a. coalition government appeared to have been rejected by foe BOARD GRANTS ONE PAROLE SALT LAKE CITY, June 24 Utah pardons board, in its regular monthly meeting, today had granted only one parole and four terminations of sentences to inmates of the state prison.

Sixteen applications for paroles were denied outright, and two other cases were continued until September. Among those denied parole was Wayne Stoker, 27, Salt Lake City salesman convicted of the last December slaying of his wife, Lorrayne Stoker. Stoker said the shooting was accidental, and that he wished to join the U. S. army air corps to rehabilitate himself.

A parole was granted to Alfred T. Faerber of Silt Lake City, who. was convicted of causing the death of a Fillmore girl by performing an.illegial operation. Faerber's record, had been during his 11 years in prison, it was -reported. ed at the docks and a cargo ship one of five other vessels in the harbor also was hit.

One Liberator was lost. Tangling with the only enemy fighter seen over the target, the Liberator's guns damaged the Japanese plane but the two collided and both went down. The bombers had to run through severe fire from ship and shore guns. It was the heaviest raid of the war on Celebes, which is in the Netherlands East Indies. The communique reported that the second straight Japanese attack on allied ground positions at Lababia Ridge, in the Mubo area of New Guinea, had been repulsed with 64 or more enemy casualties.

Allied losses were described as negligible. War lir Brief EUROPE: Royal air force inaugurates Africa-Britain bombing shuttle line across. Europe when home-based' raiders hit Italian naval base at Spezia oh return flight of round trip to 'North Africa. British Wellingtons set fires in raid on at Oibia in Sardinia and bombers from middle east pound Momiso airdrome SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Liberator bombers fly 2,000 miles in second longest raid of the war by IslDJiCI based planes to blast Japanese cruiser and set fires aground Macassar on Celebes island of Neftetlands East Indies. British Report Raids on Sicily ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 24 ish bombers touched off fires and explosions in twin raids on Sicicly and Sardinia Tuesday night, com- muniques announced today, but daylight operations yesterday were confined to routine patrols.

Twin-engined Wellingtons of the Northwest African Air started several fires among docks at Olbia, Sardinia, while heavy bombers from the middl-eastern command pounded the Comiso airdrome in southern Sicily. ArnyCasMlties 63,958 To Date Reports Stimson WASHINGTON, June 24 Total army casualties for the entire wan to date number 63,958, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced today. Total navy, marine corps and coast guard casualties announced, to date are 26,902, making- the grand total 90,860. The navy has reported 7,604 dead, 4,732 wounded, 11,010 missing and 3,556 prisoners of war in its three branches.

The army casualties comprise 7,528 killed in action or dead of wounds, 17,128 wounded, 22,687 missing, and 16,615 prisoners of war. The Philippine campaign was the most expensive to date in casualties, owing to the large number captured and missing after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. Total casualties in the Philippine campaign were 31,610, including Philippine scouts. There were 1,273 killed, 1,746 wounded. 17.939 missing, oners.

and 10,652 pris- By UNITED PRESS The Royal Air Force unveiled a new maneuver today in the offensive rocking Axis shuttle service across the continent by bombers flying Britain and Africa 1 tested in a destructive attack on Italy's biggest naval base at Spezia. Home-based Lancasters of the RAF completed the first round trip to Africa last night, unloading their bombs on Spezia. Outward bound Sunday night, they struck a punishing blow at the radio location equipment factory i in Friediichshafen. The raiding innovation revealed during an apparent luff in the allied air battle against German's Ruhr, which was reported to have caused the Nazis to order the evacuation of 3, 000,000 civilians from the battered industrial valley. Roundabout reports from Berlin said that besides ordering the evacuation of non-essential persons from the Ruhr, the Germans had more than 1,000 fighter planes and their heaviest anti-aircraft defenses; to guard the scourged industrial region in- many inhabitants, admittedly had "lost their nerve- under the record bombing.

The four-motored Lancaster bombers made the round trip flight to Africa, smashing effectively at a major Axta target on rach journey, without the loss of a single plane. Heading north last night, they set their course over Speftia and in an accurate bombardment of the naval base set fire to oil stores and blasted the dock area. Axis reports that British planes raided western Germany last night lacked confirmation. No official explanation had been sriven for the flight of American Flying Fortresses over the channel coast area of England late yesterday. Bombers and fighters crossed! the channel by daylight.

today' for new blows at the continent. About 15 German "planes "raided the harbor city of Hull in northeast England last night, causing some damage and casualties. Action in Russia was confined largely to air attacks. The Red Air Force smashed Tuesday night at the strategic railroad junction of Pskov on the Riga- Staraya Russa line, as well as a number of German airdromes. The entire station area of Pskov left aflame, Moscow said.

with many trains burning. Japanese Attacks On U. S. Ships Fail WASHINGTON, June 24 Single planes attempted night attacks on three small U. S.

ships in the Solomon islands, but their forays were unsuccessful, the navy announced today. The first attack was made by an enemy plane on Sunday night against a "light surface unit" near Savo island, off the northwestern tip of Guadalcanal. The Japanese damage. failed to inflict any Traasiry Opens Fiscal Year With NationalWtof $140,000,000,000 BY LTLE C. WILSON Vailed Press Staff Correeposrfeat 24 treasury will begin a new fiscal year one week from today with tax plans still uncertain and a national debt which, probably will be in excess of $140,000,000,000.

The expiring fiscal year has been a record-breaker in all respects. Both receipts and expenditures evidently will fall below the estimates President Roosevelt submitted to congress in his budget message last January 6. are current figures for this fiscal- year compared with are- current figures for this fiscal- year compared last iltliuary's estimates: i-. This Tear lo Date January Estimates National Debt $139,722.000,000 $134,800,000,000 Expenditures (All) 75493,000,000 80,400,000,000 War Expenditures 69,430.000,000 Receipts 20.477,000,000 Net Deficit 54,714,000,000 74.000.000,000 22,900,000,000 57,400,000.000 The, discrepancy between the smaUer-than-expected net deficit and: the public explained by the cash balance of more than $9,000,000,000 now at the treasury's disposal. (Continued oa Page Two) Mtst of Will's 4M6CoalMiMR Retira to Work PRICE.

Utah, June 24 Most of Utah's 4000 miners were back to work today, having been summoned by radio from their fishing retreats, but- sentiment among the men indicated that trouble was brewing unless the matter of mine contracts was finally settled. The graveyard shift at toe- to work Kaiser mine near price went back to work with almost a full shift, while operations elsewhere were reaching normal again. Adverse sentiment, was reported in connection with Praatdpnt Roosevelt's threat to induct into the army. Some miners Mitt Roosevelt, by his attitude, had; "committed political suicide." leaders were quoted aft declaring they had been informed that uncless a contract witr operators was approved by the tobcr at deadline set by the Mine Workers, a "real strike" would occur. They estimated -tfcpgr.

had funda to strike for a year, if necessary. The miners denied 7 Chat they lacked patriotism. It waa pointed out that most of them had or brothers in the armed forceav "We don't want production; of coal to cease any more body else," said one miner. want this we once and for att..