The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

BUY S4 TEMPERATURE i (For 24-hour period ending at seven a today MinMax1 MinMax Ogden 28 45'New York 36 50 Albuquerque 41 63iOSsla City 47 68 Atlanta 45 57Omaha 36 65 Bismarck 25 SSiProvo 19 42 Chicago 44 53 Rock Springe 20 32 Denver 30 59 Salt Lake 28 44 Grand June 27 52San Antonio 71 SO Minneapolis 37 50jSt Louis 46 56 New Orleans 62 7ljWashington 33 51 WEATHER Little change in temperature -day and tonight fit FINAL EDITION Wide World Newt StM Serric 20 TWO SECTIONS OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 5 1942 Tbe United Prese The Associated Preai Shooting Affray Ends Fatally for Three of Family Axis Army in Fliglit ww v-v -v1 a1 v1' v-v Seventy-third No 136 DEAN HARRIS SLAYS WIFE HER MOTHER LEAD GROWS FOR GRANGER IN UTAH POLL A W7 waip wxv rfeirPniTm HoTm HJL ILiL JLLiL dLJi lU? Force Nazis Back v- -X A- I- nni A- i Pleasant ViewCarpenter Then Suicides in His Car DIVORCE IS BLAMED Lee 277 Votes Behind as 470 of 486 Precincs Report RECOUNT FORESEEN Most of Missing Ballots In Box Elder County Area Egyptian Victory Held Turning Point in War LONDON Nov 5 Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts prime minister of the Union of South Africa suggested today that allied successes in Egypt might assume the proportions of a victory which would be "the turning point in this war" Smuts whose confidential conferences in London preceded the current allied onslaught in which South African troops are playing an important role made the suggestion in messages of congratulation to officers in Egypt King George VT described the rout of Marshal Erwin Rommel's African forces as a brilliant victory and his phrases set the pace for elated comment by normally restricted British military observers The British radio hammered the story home to the peoples of Germany Italy and the nazi-occupied and neutral nations of Europe with broadcast after broadcast in many tongues" Political commentators said Prime Minister Churchill would report to the house of commons on the fighting in Egypt in a new review of the war when parliament reassembled TRIPLE TRAGEDY Early ST- it 'w 5 today Dean Harris 34 Pleasant View drove to Plymouth Box Elder county and shot to death his mother-in-law Mrs Rhoda Archibald He then drove to his home in Pleasant View and killed his wife Iretta Archibald Harris walked from the home sat on a bed he had been using in his automobile and killed himself Above at the Pleasant View home Sheriff John Watson and deputies prepare to move the bodies At side Misg Dorothy Porter Standard-Examiner reporter peers into the automobile in which Harris' body was found (Photos by Spencer Richards) Alarm Sounded Too Late To Prevent Tragedy In Wber County Divorce proceedings were believed to have written the tragic finis to three lives today when Dean Charles Harris 34 of Pleasant View shot and killed his mother-in-law Mrs Rhoda Archibald as she lay sleeping in her home at Plymouth later drove back to his home in Pleasant View killed his wife with the same weapon a 22 caliber revolver and in a melodramatic conclusion returned to his car and turned the gun upon himself While no motive was advanced by Sheriff John Watson of Weber county nevertheless divorce complaint was filed in Weber county September 18 1942 by his wife Iretta A Harris and a previous similar action had been set aside by the court In her complaint Mrs Harris listed cruelty as -cause of action BodyDiscovered First word of the tragedy was received by Deputy Sheriff Joseph Weston shortly before eight o'clock this morning Apparently discov- Continued on Page Two) (Column Four) 'it' i SOLOMON JAPS FLEE MARINES ROMMEL PLIGHT HELD DESPERATE DEFERMENT OF FARMERS ASKED I I VN -i I 4 i I Nips Abandon Arms In Guadalcanal Isle Battle We're Killing Germans Where We Find 'Em Says Spokesman JflrVtNCIx" 'rain Victories Democratic ajorities LONDON Nov 5 (UP) authoritative British source said tonight that the position of Marshal Erwin Rommel is "desperate" and predicted the destruction of the nazi Africa korps will be accomplished "in a matter of a few days" (Columbia Broadcasting system quoted Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery as declaring in a message to the Eighth urmy that "complete victory is almost in sight" Montgomery said "We have the chance of putting the whole panzer army in the The British spokesman said that the axis forces in North Africa are "badly busted up already" "We are just beginning to give them the sort of warfare they gave to the civilians of France Holland and Belgium on the highways two years ago" he said The commentator said that the axis troops were attempting to re By The Associated Press Nearly complete returns from Tuesday's elections today disclosed the Republicans had drained off the once formidable Democratic majorities in congress to a level that might ebb in their favor on important legislation and had about divided the 48 states governorships equally with the 9000 Prisoners Taken by Allies as Rommel Hard Hit ATTACK IS SURPRISE 1 Soviets Make Local Gain Northwest of Volga On Black Sea CAIRO Nov 5 United nations forces chased a once-proud axis army across the sands of western Egypt today and a British source in London said Marshal Erwin Rommel's African corps "is busted" Rommel's army iajcaught In a comparatively narrow defile along the coast and the Germans and Italians are being "hunted like rabbits" with every weapon at the allies' command this source declared The spokesman paid high tribute to American war equipment and supplies sent to the middle east and added "It is impossible to be too optimistic" about what has happened and what is going to happen in North Africa Thousands Seized Weakened by the loss of thousands of men captured killed wounded or isolated in their desert strongpoints the axis forces were engaged in a frantic hunt for positions to avert destruction Only a rearward moving screen of anti-tank guns and tanks shielded the bulk of Marshal Rommel's African corps from the pressing advance of a united nations' army the Eighth British while a com-partively impotent air force sought to parry the combined blows of American and British imperial airmen 9000 Are Prisoners While 9000 prisoners (by a count already 24 hours old) streamed dejectedly to the British rear the allied air forces kept hitting at the foe and the main coastal line of retreat was described as a veritable graveyard of smoking twisted tanks armored cars and trucks (Reuters British1 news agency reported from Cairo that some of the axis advance posts in the western desert were found unmanned in the first lunge of the Eighth army indicating that the offensive caught the axis forces by surprise (There also were reports that Rommel himself was not on the job at the time and authoritative sources said he might not have arrived there until after the offensive started on October 23 (He had been in Berlin for consultation with Hitler and was present in the Sportspalast when the fuehrer on September 30 pledged that Stalingrad would be captured The German press reported that Rommel left Berlin on October 15) Tremendous Toll The sudden collapse of the axis defenses was announced last night in a British communique after 12 day of furious fighting in which the allies were said to have taken a tremendous toll of Rommel's men and equipment Today's communique told of a continuing British kdvance on all sectors of the front with enemy tanks and anti-tank guns attempting to fight a rearguard action along the coastal road in the north the main avenue of retreat At the southern end of the narrow front axis forces were reported still holding out in a few isolated positions but it appeared that the British were by-passing these in their general advance Allied planes kept the retreating axis forces under (heavy attack and the dwindling air force at Rommel's command was kept strictly on the defensive Except for one dive-bombing attack which was quickly broken -up by allied fighters the British ground forces were unmolested from the air Intent on keeping reinforcements from reaching Rommel allied bombers and torpedo carrying planes also blasted at his overseas supply lines damaging a tanker and a heavily laden merchant vessel and scorcing three hits on escorting destroyers the communique said Last night's British communique declared boldly that the enemy was "in full retreat" General Killed InV terse phrases the announcement painted the picture of a sweeping allied victory disclosed that Rommel's second in command General von had been killed in action and declared that the enemy was retreating in complete confusion On the soviet front Moscow reports the Russians have broken up all the latest nazi- efforts to expand the invasion salient In (ConUnued on Pag i'wo) (Column One) SALT LAKE CITY Nov 5 (AP) Utah's first congressional district race between Democratic sentative Walter Granger and Republican candidate Bracken Lee mayor of Price still hung in the balance early today on the basis of unofficial returns more than 36 hours after the polls closed Tuesday night Granger was leading by 277 votes with 470 of 486 precincts reported Granger had an unofficial total Of 36155 to 35878 for Lee But on a count that close it was almost a dead certainty the outcome would be determined only by the official canvass and possibly even then a recount will be demanded With so many possibilities of error in preliminary counts transmission of figures and other handling of returns it appeared unlikely Utahns would know who their first district congressman will be for sure until the official count In Box Elder County Most of the precincts missing were in Box Elder county part of which has given Granger the edge and part of which has swung to Lee so that even experienced campaigners hesitated to predict what would come from that area In the other district Robinson Democratic incumbent had won a decisive victory over his Republican opponent Reed Vet-terli Salt Lake City police chief With an almost total unofficial return 364 precincts out of 366 reporting Robinson had 43788 votes to 34641 for Vetterli i Chief Justice David Moffat Democrat also with unofficial returns nearly complete had won by a wide margin over Dilworth Wooley Manti Republican in the contest for a place on the Utah supreme court bench Moffat received 86341 votes for re-election in the 829 precincts of the state's 852 which had reported early today to 61180 for Woolley Chain Store Tax Hit The chain store tax proposal No 2 on the had been emphatically refused by the electorate which registered 83858 votes against the measure to 38215 for it in 820 precincts The measure which would have applied taxes ranging from $50 to $500 on each existing unit in Utah of 22 national chain plus levies ranging from $500 to $5000 for each new or relocated unit was the center of the most controversial issue of the campaign Backed by retail grocers of the state the proposed tax met its most determined opposition on the ground the levy on new units was a "death clause" aimed at the chain Attorney General Grover A Giles had given an opinion that this clause might be termed unconstitutional by the courts as being in restraint of free enterprise He also criticized pof -i tions of the bill passed by the 1941 legislature and signed by the governor i which exempts voluntary or so-called chains from its provisions as well as service stations and utilities as being "discriminatory" ray Hike Refused The people for the third time refused a pay raise to the Utah legislature Proposal No 1 which would have amended the Utah constitution to allow an increase from the present $4 a day for legislators up to as high as $10 drew 76211 "no" votes in 820 precincts to 43687 "yes While Weber county maintained its previous standing as a Democratic stronghold even there a shift was seen when compared with previous elections of recent years Granger there held a majority 2742 which was considerably smaller than he had registered in the past' In the Utah legislature the Republicans made slight gains though falling far short of attaining control in either the upper or lower house With unofficial returns nearly complete from most areas it ap It the picture Is not overdrawn Marshal Rommel's defeat in the Egyptian desert is a disaster to the Germans and Italians of crushing magnitude Dispatches describe the enemy as demoralized and in retreat-with the American and A air forces pursuing the beaten army When an army today is whipped to the point of seeking safety in flight the fate of the defeated is almost sealed as the men in the air with a mastery can overtake the victims and create havoc making safe escape impossible Unless the Germans can land reinforcements said to haVe left Crete for the scene of disaster Rommel may be forced to leave a big part of his army dead on the field WASHINGTON Nov 5 American marines supported by army and navy airmen are pushing their admittedly small offensive on Guadalcanal island vigorously enough so that the Japs have been forced to abandon valuable equipment Twenty machine guns and two' small artillery pieces were reported captured by the Americans in last night's communique During the first day of the offensive west of the air field on Guadalcanal the Americans captured two 75 mm guns Naval communiques and naval officials have carefully avoided magnifying the dimensions of the offensive which started last Thursday (island time) They likewise have avoided any mention of disorder in the enemy retreat from their advance positions near the Mat-anikau river But the last communique's mention of machine guns and artillery abandoned indicated that all is not well with the Japanese It is a reasonable assumption that the enemy would make every effort to preserve all the fire power available The transportation of such equipment from advance bases to the scene of fighting is one of the major logistic problems for both sides in the battle of the Solomons Latest reports from the Solomons bring the battle on Guadalcanal through Tuesday morning (island time) when it was said that the American advance to the west was continuing There still was no tendency here to be optimistic about the situation Naval officials pointed out that there has been an ominous lack of reports on any enemy naval or air activity for- days There has been no mention of Jap air support for eight days SACRIFICE AIDS DIVE BOMBERS treat back along the coastal roadJ il 1 1 1 1 Wickard Says Labor Is Vital for Agricultural Production I WASHINGTON Nov 5 Secretary of Agriculture Wickard told a senate military committee today that essential farm labor should be given draft deferment to assure maintenance of agricultural production but failed to express an opinion on any pending legislative proposals for dealing with the manpower problem The secretary declared that "we are losing our most efficient agricultural workers very rapidly" and warned that unless means were found to keep "skilled managerial help on the farms all the unskilled workers you can place there won't help in this situation" Wickard estimated that 1600000 men have left the farms in the last year and said about 60 per cent went into Industry and the balance into the armed forces He suggested that congress take steps to prevent war industries from hiring men grstnted deferment as essential farm workers Although the number of people on farms had declined only slightly during the past year Wickard said those remaining include less of the capable younger workers and more of older people and children This trend he said would make more difficult fulfillment of demands for greater agricultural production BRITISH ESCAPE 'COMIC ARMY' OF ITALIANS INWAR LONDON Nov 5 Four Britons escaped from Tobruk by driving 25 miles in a German armored column and adopting "Gotte strafe England" expressions a letter from one of the men who accomplished the feat some time ago revealed today "Our plan involved getting ourselves up to look as jmuch like Huns as possible without actually wearing their uniforms and joining in one of their armored columns for 25 miles in a British vehicle" the letter from Sgt A Scott of Ilford Essex said "We filled "up our vehicle right under the noses of some of Mussolini's comic army One of the Italians spoke to us ih his language I answered 'Ja' and one of the others in our party knocked him down for luck This apparently is the normal treatment the jerries hand them for he didn't seem to mind very much "We all tried very hard to put on 'Gott strafe England' expressions and look as though we were about to die for the fatherland and fuehrer" I Scott said the party unobtrusively left the German column and lived on dirty water drained from radiators of 'abandoned vehicles during the days of travel until British lines were reached ume ao many raooita araaheu oui of their holes" "They are being pounded mercilessly" he said "We wouldn't do that sort of things to civilians: but we will to them This is the first time since the war has started that we are really handing it back to German troops in retreat" The source said the Eighth army was not interested merely in occupying such points as Tobruk and Benghazi "We are interested" he said "in killing Germans where we find them Jand we'll take care of the Italian lackeys as we go along We are interested in utterly smashing the army of men about whom Hitler boasted when he jeered at the British generals Among Jthe prisoners taken thus far he said were the entire staff of the Italian Trento division "We copped every last wop of them" he said noting that the Italian radio today had suddenly started to express concern over possible allied plans to invade Italy across the Mediterranean once the axis has been driven from North Africa PEARL -HARBOR Nov 5 (UP) Three American squadrons of carrier-based torpedo planes were virtually wiped out in the battle of Midway but their sacrifice enabled navy dive bombers to inflict heavy losses on the Jap fleet headquarters of Pacific fleet revealed today Squadron Number Six commanded by Lieut Comdr Lindsey attacked the enemy with 14 planes and only four returned while squadron five headed by Lieut Comdr Massey lost 10 of its 12 planes it was disclosed Destruction of squadron eight from which only Ensign Gay survived previously was reported The courage of the three squadrons in attacking the enemy in the" face of fierce anti-aircraft fire and swarms of fighter planes accounted for a considerable number of the 21 Jap naval craft sunk or damaged in the battle Only one American aircraft carrier and a destroyer were lost in the engagement The Japs also lost at least 275 planes One report tells of 9000 prisoners with dead everywhere Shell shock is said to have dazed many of the German prisoners disclosing the tremendous power of the bombing and artillery fire of the attacking forces When the inside story is given It will be that is my that much of the war materiel utilized by the British Eighth army was supplied by our war department and will include planes tanks bombs and shells This may not be the second front but is leading up to a flank movement on the German attack In Russia and along the Blacli sea which should be more' certain of success than an attempt to storm the forts which guard western Germany and the conquered area In a talk before Rotary on Wednesday Dr King Hendricks head of the English department of the Utah State Agricultural college gave a sketch of Stalin and a glimpse of Russian life which was educational and well presented Their gains in the congressional and state contests exceeded the brightest hopes of Republican forecasters and almost turned the Democrats out of even nominal control the house Late teturns showed that the Democrats had taken 219 house seats one more than a bare majority but had suffered a net loss of 41 members as compared with the present house Republicans had elected 207 representatives a net gain of 42 in the minor parties the Progressives had elected two representatives a net loss of one seat and the Farmer-Labor and American-Labor parties had held to one seat each Five house races still were undecided today -In the present house which continues until the end of the year the Democrats have a majority of the Republicans and five minor party members Their peak was) in 1937 with" 333 to 89 With only one senate contest outstanding that between Senator Murray (D-Mont) and Wellington Rankin- (R) the Republicans had gained nine new senate seats without losing one to the Democrats and the latter had lost eight Independent George Norris Nebraska also lost out to a Republican Kenneth Wherry The Democrats elected 15 which with 41 holdovers gave them a total of 56 in the new senate starting January 3 Republicans elected 18 and with 20 incumbents not up for re-election gave them a total of 38 The senate's lone Progressive LaFollette of Wisconsin was not up this year This Democratic majority of 17 or plurality of 18 over the Republicans compares with an existing majority of 34 or plurality of 36 Lowest majority in recent years was in 1933 when the division was 59 Democrats and 36 Republicans Highest was in 1937 when it was 75 Democrats and 17 Republicans Of the 33 governorships at stake including that in Maine whkh elected September 14 the Republicans won 17 the Democrats 13 and Progressives one Two were stilLin in Idaho and Wyoming Counting holdovers the Democrats now will have at least 23 governors the Republicans 22 and Progressives one Two Indicted on Postal Charges SALT LAKE CITY Nov 5V(UP) William Chastain and Kleoalenie Chastain postmaster and assistant postmaster at Ibapah Tooele county today had been indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts concerning embezzlement of post office receipts Two of the counts concern falsification of reports on stamp cancellations appropriating stamps to apply on a personal account and embezzlement of postal funds totaling $51512 Portland Faces Meat Shortage He declared that Stalin is a strong character of great power Nazis Shoot 172 Slav Hostages LONDON Nov 5 Jugoslav official circles said today that the Germans shot 172 hostages at Mari-bor during October in addition 150 slain at Cluj Sept 15 in reprisal for blowing up a military railway and interfering with shipments of supplies to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Egypt They estimated that by the end of August 2500 hostages had been shot in Slovenia QUEZON TO TALK WASHINGTON Nov 15 Philippine government offices said today that President Roosevelt President Quezon of the Philippines and President Avila Camacho of Mexico would all speak on a radio program Nov 15 marking the seventh anniversary of the inauguration of the Philippine PORTLAND Nov 5 (UP) only -a week's supply of fresh meat on hand in local markets meat packers were temporarily balked today by the OPA's refusal to liberalize meat quotas to permit replenishing the supply Virtually all of Portland's meat peared the Republicans were sure who must be reckoned with at I the peace conference when the al-I lies win I His analysis was keen though L'evoid of the dogmatic -J He is recognized as one of Utah's lost capable public speakers A visitor from Los Angeles says hoodlumism is rampant in that City -j -r Gangs of ydung boys of Filipino and Mexican makeup are commit-(Contlnued on Page TwoJ (Coloma TsoX packers with the exception of thefl bulletins The home of Howard Child Riverdale was destroyed today by fire according to Jensen Weber county fire chief It resulted from a small blaze started by grandchildren of the family In a coal shed which adjoined the main building The firemen reported that lack of water at the site prevented them from saving any of the building and very little of the bouse furnishings of 20 seats in the house a gain of four over the 1941 legislature and the Democrats of 39 with one still in doubt In the senate the lines were clearly drawn with the Republicans gaining two seats to hold a total (Continued on Fags Two) (Ooluma Tbroe) Swift and Armour companies announced yesterday they would be forced to suspend slaughtering operations Nov 13 Census figures the OPA said indicated a slight decrease Moreover the OPA said "population shifts are not a basis for quota adjustments".