The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

I TEMPERATURE (For 24-hour period ending at seven a today) Seventy-third Year No 33 The United Frees The Associated Frees OGDEN CITY UTAH SATURDAY EVENING JULY 25 1942 Wide World News Nen Service EIGHT PAGES FINAL EDITION Welcome to Ogden Governor Sinks Five Jap Ships Reds Fight German Drive JAPS PLANNED IN SEPTEMBER Last Rodeo For Duration Slated Tonight at Stadium anks Bomb Axis Warns of Spies Blow Planned if America Refused Supplies Writer Says RUSSIAN FIGHT SEEN Old Victory Formula Is 'Get Thar Fustest With Mostest Men' f- tivZ A- i mil GREETINGS Governor Herbert Maw (seated right) was welcomed to Pioneer days Friday evening at the Pioneer days rodeo in the Ogden stadium by Mayor Peery standing as Miss LaRue Maw and 'Mrs Maw (left to right) looked on The governor was honored guest at the rodeo performance This celebration which closes with program will be the last the according-to Mayor Peery BOEDER' MAPS FOUND ON SPIES More Than 2000 Yanks In Jap -Occupied China By JAMES WHITE LOURENCO MARQUES Portuguese East Africa July 25 (AP) More than 2000 American civilians remain behind in Japanese-occupied China where they face the tightening conditions of war "The prime necessity Is getting them home as soon as possible" it is emphasized by the civilian leaders included in this first evacuation i SOLONS READY By ROBERT BELLA IRE Former United Press Manager In Japan F1 (Copyright 1942 By P) LOURENCO MAR QUES Portuguese East Africa July 25 (UP) warlords made full preparations to yt strike at even before fj sending a final am- bassador to Washington I can disclose now that the Jap army leaders attacked Pearl Har-2 bor ahead of schedule for the sake of surprise when they were con- vinced that President Roosevelt would not compromise on delivery I of additional war supplies to Japan fl Preparations Made In the months that I reported pdevelopments at Tokyo leading up to the war and during six months of internment following Pearl Har- bor the picture shaped up as lows: military leaders made preparations for this war last September before Saburo Kurusu rtwas sent to Washington Total mobilization was ordered and aft-Lr freezing the Jap army at fuU strength the warlords established six deadline in which fvan agreement must be reached with Washington or war would re-ult -fff The army leaders figured that the longest period they could wait for assurances that they would receive supplies from Ameri-Lca for the Jap war machine rjjr Then they decided that Mr Roos-kjevelt would not compromise and jth army leaders advanced the war Schedule for the sake of surprise partly because newspaper corres- pondents were predicting that the deadline would come in six months What Happened i There still are many facts about I (the Jap situation that cannot be Reported but the following statements in regard to what has happened behind the enemy propaganda and censorship screen in the I Pacific may be made: 1 This is a war of races as far las the Jap army leaders are con-2 ierned and even liberals who Ljhad been friendly toward Ameri-Pcans in the past have been swept iaway by the nationalist tide 2 Japan planned this war with careful consideration for her weak- Continued on Page Two) (Column Two) FMN FMNCIv' in Africa Subs in Western Pacif i Bag Destroyer Sixth Vessel Hit GERMANS ADVANC Nazis Cross Don River Menace Broad Front In Oil Area to WASHINGTON uly 25 (AP) The navy announced today that subs operating in the western Pacific had reported sinking fiv Japanese ships including one modern destroyer and damaging and possibly sinking asix1i vessel i The submarine activities were rc ported in navy department cofti-munique No 100 which Baid: submarines have reported the following results jpf operations in far eastern waters:) One modern I Japanese destroyer sunk I "(b) One medium-sized tank 3 sunk "(c) Three cargo ships sunk One medfum-sized cargo ship damaged and believed sunk "2 These actions have not bee announced in any previous navy department communique" I This was the first time in mapy weeks that the navy had issued I a report on American submarine operations in the western Pacific where early in the war they extended all the way from waters north of Australia to waters sur-' roxmdlngnhe Japanese "homeland After four weeks of their major offensive action for 1942 the Germans have gained a foothold on the southern or deep Caucasus side of the lower Don river I a strategic line on which Russian forces have taken a stand to shield their' southern contact with the allied world I United States bombers had become a powerful bulwark of the red air force in the battle of the Caucasus -1 1 1 An American source at Moscow said that Douglas Bostons twin-engined medium bombers from America were participating in the red air hammering of German armored columns on the Don steppes Presumably the planes were flown by Russians although the Moscow dispatch did not specifically say so There have been previous reports of planes being flown to the Don front and going directly into action The army has a strong air force the middle east and presumab this command sent the planes 1 Concede Don Crossed Russian dispatches conceded oru Don crossing but declared that the Germans dug in on the south bank opposite the Tsimlyansk area were the focus of strong attacks to dislodge them before the 1 position could be exploited far a deeper thrust into the vital Caucasus i The wandering Don was tinged with blood as it flowed past Tsimlyansk westward to Rostov where also the enemy's shock troops were said by the Russians to have wedged themselves intq the Russian defenses The Germans said- yesterday that Rostov was theirs although not 1 yet mopped up -and an nounced today that Novocherkassk 20 miles northeast also had fait len to them outflanked by the thrust to Rostov across the Axa river a tributary of the Don The Germans said that the bat-1 tie for Don crossings was in full swing on a broad front at Rostov and east of that city Crip pa Asks Steps LONDON Sir Stafford CrippsJ Lord privy seal told British scien-i lists today that the united nations at the end of- the war unn dertake international regulation of the production and distribution of the essential raw materials We must turn our machinery of economic warfare into one of economic Cripps said In an address TEXAS DEMOS ARK BALLOTS DALLAS Tex July 25 (UP) Democrats marked ballots today as final critics of the three-ring campaign conducted by three former governors who seek nomlna- tion for senator in the First Texas primary election The campaign performances were completed last night by Senator Lee (Pappy) at Vic toria by James Allred In Ft Worth and Dan Moody at Austin Each appeared confident of the nomination 1 Two Drum Bugle Corps Will Be Added fo Program CROWDS INCREASE Gov Maw and Family Special Guests on Friday Night last rodeo until the war is won will see cowboys and cowgirls giving their best efforts tonight in the rides ancl other contests which will determine the 1942 championships of Pioneer days The stadium gates will open at seven with the last roundup to begin at nine sharp Taking the spotlight just ahead of the grand entry at nine will be two drum and bugle organizations this The American Legion junior drum corps directed by Ray Minter official bandmaster for the celebration and the Ogden arsenal drum and bugle corps organized by Capt Cleveland and directed by Ben Trimble The junior drum corps will enter the arena at eight-twenty and the arsenal guards at eight-thirty Near Capacity Crowd Not more than' 200 additional persons could have been seated in huge municipal stadium last night for the fourth and largest go-round of the' five-day rodeo events Gate receipts took the profit ledger soaring with a total sale of $868525 for the evening Four-day totals for the rodeo stand at $2226550 with an additional sum from the carnival taking the grand total to $2596550 All reserved seats for performance have been sold according to Marcus Critchlow city auditor who is in charge of ticket sales Special guest at the holiday running of western riding and roping events was Governor Herbert Maw accompanied by Mrs Maw his daughter LaRue Maw and Miss Alice Anderson of Salt Lake City Guests of Mayor and Mrs Harman Peery in their box were also Mrs Chris Flygare and Mrs Lydia Manning of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and Brigadier-General Ralph Talbot Jr of Utah quartermaster depot The record crowd last night spurred both contestants and contract performers to peak achievements Fastest time of the rodeo on bulldogging wrestling of steers with the heaviest bulldogging stock on any rodeo circuit was recorded by Harry Hart of Pocatello Idaho -a consistent day money winner in the event Hart downed his steer In 84 seconds Even the bucking stock seemed to sense the importance of the eve ning and gave some splendid exhibitions of high kicking sunfishing snorting roaring Action Posse Gives Drill With Sheriff John Watson In the stand to review his men the Weber county mounted posse gave an equestrian drill that brought applause loud enough to shake a few stars loose from the moonlit sky overhead Trixie McCormick with novelty lighting effects on her trick roping performance found the setting of her act beautified by Announcer Jack little trick of having the audience strike matches simultaneously through the stands during the blackout The thousands of sparkling lights emphasized the beauty of the fluorescent rope spinning at the east end of the arena Hardy high school horse Buck impressed with the solemnity of the occasion gave a graceful bow to the executive officer Governor Maw then proceeded to display the training Murphy has lavished on him since he was a four-months-old colt His performance was flawless and impressive wardrobe adds mightily to the act Drawing heavy applause for his act the like of which has never been seen in Utah and which he originated Roy Seward displayed a sense of balance probably unequaled in the world Wearing only regulation high-heel cowboy boots to give his feet a grip Red performs his entire act of trick roping a slack rope His little trick of lying on the rope and turning under it and back up to the top has never been shown before in this country and is believed to be original with him The largest array of trick riders and ropers to perform at any rodeo In the west this year is gathered at Ogden Berenice Taylor Myrtle Goodrich Juanita Howell Trixie (Continued on Fa Two) CColtuxm Tobruk Bengasi Crete Reported Heavily Damaged LANDING FIELDS HIT i General Maxwell's Army Claimed Making Desert'HotSpot' CAIRO July 25 (AP) U- army bombers in seven daylight raids in a week have wrought heavy damage to the axis ports of Tobruk and Bengasi in Libya and i-Suda Bay in Crete army air force headquarters declared today as the A added more than 20 additional axis planes to its fast-increasing tally of enemy craft destroyed or damagd on the ground The A announced its latest blow at the forward landing field at El Daba cost the axis more than a score of planes aground and three destroyed in the air yesterday Field Heavily Ilit Since Monday the field at El Daba has been heavily hit three times and that at Fuka once Figures on axis planes destroyed on the ground have totalled more than 80 ii addition to some com muniques which merely have listed The army air force head quarters announcement of the American bomber operations for the week said besides heavy damage to the enemy docks and installations several medium sized merchant vessels were left in flames and a direct hit set fire to a large ship at Bengasi Yankees Lauded Brigadier General Russell Maxwell head of the mili tary mission in Egypt and his men making the desert sit up and said Casey British minister of state and former Australian minister to Washington after a visit to a United States project today The establishment is a example of American military housekeeping on a grand scale a large widespread establishment which will give added punch to united efforts in this part of the said Casey was much impressed by what I saw" By LARRY ALLEN Navy Aids Fight WITH THE BRITISH NAVAL AIR SERVICE IN THE WESTERN DESERT July 2 AP) Naval aircraft pressing their virtually non-stop offensive bombed a concentration of axis tanks armored cars and motor transport southeast of El Daba early today Under the light of a golden moon naval squadrons soared out of this advanced desert base before midnight and a little later swooped in upon the enemy base blasting motorized units In aU directions fliers met violent anti-aircraft fire and machine gun bursts as they 'dived at the massed vehicles STOCK MARKET TREND NARROW By VICTOR EUBANK NEW YORK July 25 Rails today continued to provide the principal recovery steam for the stock market and even these exhibited scant tendencies toward speed The war news tax skepticism and inflation confusion remained the outstanding speculative and investment imponderables and the most bullishly inclined were content to keep commitments on the light side Slightly irregular shifts appeared at the opening and persisted to the close Transfers were around 100000 shares Santa Fe edged into new high territory since 1938 Better performers also included Atlantic Coast Line Southern Railway Southern Pacific Steel Republic Steel Western Union United Aircraft Allied Chemical General Electric and du Pont Frequent laggards Included Chrysler General Motors Yellow Truck Eastman Kodak Air Reduction Anaconda Goodrich Montgomery Ward Woolworth and International Harvester Commodities rallied Bonds were narrowly uneven -j vV -v EDGAR HOOVER lauded by NAZIS ON WAY HOOVER SAYS Saboteurs Ordered to Destroy War Firms FBI Head Says Edgar Hoover FBI director asked the nation today to be on the lookout for three men Identified as expert German saboteurs who he said might come to the United States The three have been trained in the German sabotage school and have received orders from the nazi high command to come to this country to destroy vital war industries Hoover said in a state ment Eight on Trial They were associated with the eight nazi saboteurs now on trial before a military commission sitting secretly in the justice department the FBI chief said The men were identified Ty Hoover as Walter Kappe alias Kappel 37 a lieutenant in the intelligence section of the German army and an instructor in the sabotage school near Berlin Joseph Schmidt alias Paul Schmidt alias Jerry Swenson and Rheinhold Rudolph Barth 35 all natives of Germany Hundreds of thousands of posters containing pictures and descriptions of the three men will be distributed over the country to aid in apprehending them Hoover did not say that the three saboteurs actually had left for this country or arrived here but only that they had been ordered to do so Lauded by WASHINGTON July x25 President Roosevelt congratulated FBI Director Edgar Hoover today on his 25 years with the justice department and said that his service to the nation had been in efficiency in effectiveness and in Starting aJ a clerk in the libraipr of congress Hoover later joined the justice department and after a few years was appointed to the unit which Mr Roosevelt said he brought to the "forefront among all the law enforcement agencies of the The congratulations were In a letter of greeting on the occasion of the graduation of the 19th class the FBI National Police academy founded by Hoover in 1935 Crosby Lunches At Country Club Bing Crosby radio and movie singing star had luncheon today at the Ogden golf and country club and indicated he would attempt to attend Pioneer closing rodeo at the municipal stadium this evening He was a guest of George Schneiter golf professional at the Ogden club WARSHIP SAVES 28 LONDON July 25 A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon today said a Portuguese destroyer had picked up a lifeboat with 28 survivors of the torpedoed British liner Avila Star sunk in the Atlantic Some of the survivors were said to be Argentines Aerial Photos Revealed Vital Spots In And NEW YORK July 25 (AP)-Aerial photographs and maps showing vital spots throughout New York and New Jersey were found in the possession of one of 11 enemy aliens seized In a round tip yesterday Foxworth as sistant director of the FBI reported today There were 100 such photographs and maps specially designed as guides to enemy bombers Foxworth declared He added that all the photographs were developed in Germany leaving no doubt that the nazi government had copies The photographs were described as excellent aerial views showing such important points as the George Washington bridge the banks of the Hudson river airplane factories war plants reservoirs and other logical bomber targets Foxworth said the alien also had between 50 and 75 similar maps of South and Central America particularly of Peru and Chile Other localities covered by the photographs included the Kensico reservoir in Westchester county part of the New York City water supply system the Hackensack and Passaic rivers in New Jersey and Paterson The aliens seized were nine Germans one a woman and two Italians Foxworth said one of the Germans had been an employe in munitions plant at Kingsland which was destroyed in a 1917 explosion One of the Italians the FBI said acknowledged serving with the Italian army at TobruK 1937 JAPS BLASTED IN NEW GUINEA GEN HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA July 25 (UP) The new Jap invasion forces in the Buna-Gona area of New Guinea with one transport sunk two disabled and the others withdrawing under constant Allied air attack nearly are cut off from retreat an army spokesman -said today Forty-five thousand pounds of high explosive and fire bombs the biggest allied operations in the entire New Guinea air war were dropped on the Buna-Gona area yesterday in five raids Bombers dive-bombers and fighter planes participated Direct hits were scored big fires started and one anti-aircraft battery silenced So fierce were the attacks according to a communique from Gen headquarters that Jap cargo vessels were unable to unload and were forced to withdraw north under protection of naval forces Work'on Geneva Mills Is Favored WASHINGTON July 25 A report submitted to the war production board by A Hauk chief of the steel planning unit has recommended the completion of two Columbia Steel Co mills at Geneva Utah The two mills one for structural products and the other for plate production are scheduled for completion next June and March -FMACATIONS No Extra Laws Needed To Curb Inflation Congress Thinks WASHINGTON July 25 As house members prepared today to start indefinite informal vacations President Roosevelt was re ported to have reached the conclu sion that he could take steps to curb Inflation without additional legislation Members who declined to be quoted by name said they had re ceived word there was little likelihood Mr Roosevelt would send a message to congress asking for ad ditional authority to control rising costs of living Therefore they said they could return to their homes or take a vacation for a few weeks since the calendars were cleared of all business CHINESE ADMIT NIPS ADVANCE CHUNGKING July 25 A new Japanese advance In eastern Chekiang province was admitted by the Chinese high command today which said its troops were evacuating Sinchang after an enemy column 3000 strong advanced from Fenghwa the birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek The column advanced through Tungyang about 37 miles east of Kinhwa on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway and met with bitter fighting at the outskirts of Shenghsf on July 14 the communique said To the' north in southern Honan province Chinese ambushed' a number of Japanese ammunition trucks northwest -of Sinyang at a bridge and killed more 'than 100 of the enemy the communique added Three Trainmen Killed in Wreck BELMONT Neb July 25 (AP) trainmen were killed and four injured today in a head-on collision between two Burlington freight trains in a deep near the bottom of Break Neck hill two miles north of this northwest Nebraska town The dead are Engineer (Mickey) Maguire Alliance Fireman Stark Alliance and Brakeman John Cochran of Sterling Colo The injured are Engineer Joe Witowack Alliance Brakeman Frank Zieman Alliance Fireman Earl Coupens and Flagman A Stewart Alliance Railroad men said Break Neck hill is one of the steepest grades in Nebraska RUBBER JOB SPURNED SUGAR HILL' IL July 25 Chief Justice Harlan Stone said Friday that he did not! intend to accept the task of mak-j ing an independent Inquiry in the? rubber situation to end present! controversies over the problem Most- of those -left -behind--are well living in their own homes where they can still afford to and are provided with the funds when their personal resources are ex hausted In late June when we left Shanghai where alone 1500 Americans remaih it already was feared that conditions soon would deterioriate However up to that time most of the Americans felt generally they had been getting aiong as well or better than they could have expected with the exception of the activities of version of the gestapo the imperial Japanese gendarmerie Three days after the war began the Japs requested the American association to take over the handling of civil affairs and the consul under the consul general staff were interned Under the chairmanship of Paul Anderson of the American Red Cross whose home is in Los Angeles this association immediately began organizing relief measures for Americans whose incomes were cut off It also acted as liaison between Japanese authorities and the entire- American community A similar organization functioned for the British Association officials believe that this relief measure saved us from the concentration camp for if we were unable to care for ourselves the Japanese would have had to so great whs the general need ALLIED SHIP TOLL NEARS 4DD MARK By The Associated Press The toil taken by U-boats in the western Atlantic neared the 400 mark today with the navy announcement of the sinking of a medium-sized merchant vessel 800 miles off the coast July 16 All of 123 persons aboard were rescued in the torpedoing which raises to 398 the unofficial Associated Press tabulation of allied and neutral ship losses in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor The American vessel was hit ift broad daylight by a submarine which remained submerged There were 66 passengers and 57 crewmen on the ship And yesterday the navy announced the sinking of another cargo vessel Four men including the skipper died when their medium-sized merchantman burst into flames after a torpedo struck it June 8 in the Caribbean Thirty-seven others escaped The Cuban navy announced the arrival in Cuba of 11 survivors of a medium-sized Norwegian ship torpedoed in the Caribbean but it was not known whether the sinking previously had been reported WHOLESALE PRICES UP NEW YORK July 25 (API-Wholesale commodity prices as measured by the Associated Press index of 35 important items moved higher this week to 9849 per cent of the 1926 average compared with 9834 a week ago and 90-10 a year ago Nothing during the war has so filled me with resentment as the story by Robert Belaire former United Press bureau manager at Tokyo relating his experience in a Japanese prison He was taken into custody beaten and choked by Japanese police and then placed incommunicado After months of suffering he and Other American newspapermen were released as exchange 1 1 A number of other American cor- respondents were given similar treatment Indignities were inflicted in an effort to force the Americans to jLjsign a statement that they were Veil treated fy This direct accusation from Be-Ulaire makes one uneasy as to what is happening to our men and worn-jen still held in Japanese concentration camps President Roosevelt should take notice of these charges and broad-t cast a warning to Japan as he did iwhen word was received that the 'Japanese gave evidence of planning to use gas 4 Ml Those responsible for the policy (j governing the concentration camps should be told in the broadcast that -'when the day of accounting arrives they will be placed on trial Dealing with an enemy of cruel-nly we must cease to be swayed as Va nation by those among us who (would urge us to be soft One of our national weaknesses (Continued tm rit two) (Column tms) 'J4! 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