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Show PROVO (UTAH)' -DAILY -HERAMV THURSDAY, APRIL' 25,- 1940 SECTION' TWO washing! on Mcrry-Go-Round (Continued From Page One) had 200.000 men in reserve to help Holland in case of attack. mere were also some very frank warnings to Ciano that Italy would be considered a belli-perent belli-perent if Mussolini landed in the '.Balkans. .-" .y,; ;..;."?.:: This cold-steel fact portrayal seemed to make a definite tm pression . on Count Ciano. How much it affected his father-in-law, the Allied diplomats had no way of knowing. Mussolini now sees no diplomats in Rome ex cept the German Ambassador. AN lied diplomats are barred. Not .even U, S. Ambassador William Phillips has seen Mussolini in recent months. Note The Allied strategy hinted hint-ed to Ciano Is "a French advance through the' Alps Into north Italy the minute Musolini sticks his nose into the war. - I - TWO OLDEST MEN 1 - Grim-visaged, bachelor Justice McReynolds "was 78 last February Febru-ary 3. Although still sturdy in health, he is looking -forward impatiently im-patiently to the adjournment of court next month and the four-months four-months summer vacation. Sometimes the Justice admits that he is a bit weary and his feet drag as he walks, but toward to-ward the New Deal he is as fierce and unrelenting as ever. There fs no drop in his enmity. An old friend recently inquired if he was considering retiring, remarking that he had been on the bench a long time (26 years) and "deserved a rest." " 1 "Yes, I have thought of retiring." retir-ing." reflected McReynolds. Tve thought .about it off and on for some time." Then, throwing up his head and with eyes flashing, . he snapped, But I'll never quit Grab In Dutch Indies Feared As Japan Nears Naval Parity With U. S. IrC JAPAN Seal of Mitei j7 6 4oo 800 . ! jM; I O hi 4YAL BASES ' Shonghoi " . 111111" i INDIA fJ J rUY3K ' ? I iiV- - 'FORMOSA . JTK ch,naj ' v?il0 r X I PHILIPPINE V- T S fl500l 1500 6SilV IZ -T feMUH 34 i Tokyo Japan, threatening to "protect" East Indies, would probobly seize them if Germany invaded Holland; Hol-land; Nippon is tempted by In-dies' In-dies' potential oil output of 60-000,000 60-000,000 barrels yearly, of which Japan gets only ono-tixtfu Pacific Ocean Dutch Indies, with small army of 40,000 end navy one-tenth the size of Japan's, could offer little, resistance to invasion unless un-less aided by U. S.-or British. V ' 0 :,:?:i;r,ZS:-:;f::':;:::'T-::VS.:s:T::s; :: DUTCH EAST INDIES 20.000 islands 1 735,000 q. miles 65,240,000 pop: UNITED STATES' JAPAN 23 tz: BATTLESHIPS w 764,300 tons 18 604,000 tons 43 , CRUISERS 4 45 '368,975 tons 329,685 tens AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 154,600 tons -x 171,520 torn DESTROYERS 347,870 tons 2 t: 4 156,648 tons 114 4 SUBMARINES j 62 118,425 tons 82,863 tons 452 ships 1,754,170 tons TOTALS 258 ships v l,344i7I6 tcr.j Flfnres for both countries fat clade all vessels built, baildinf or appropriated, for to 1949. . . Japanese battleship Cfure In eludes four 4 0,0 00-to a warship, "reported under construction. 'Jowpiete d biuliea suectrical SERVICE Ranges . . Refriirerators Washers Small Appliances Radios I v Charles Stewart ' Woodrow Bullock ' :-J?ff7f i ii t ii t ISO V. Center Phone 1432 Dutch East Indies, island entity south of Asia, may become a var center. A German invasion of Hoi- land would probably bring seizure of the Indies by Japan unless the islands were promptly put unocr British-American protectorate. Foreign fleets and forces in Asiatic waters are small, however, compared com-pared with the growing Japanese navy. As shown on chart, Japan has far exceeded 5-3 tonage ratio agreed to with ' U, S. under now defunct washrngton naval treaty of lazz, and is said to nave many more warships now secretly ? under construction. ' ' -iy- the as long as that man is in White; House. NEVER!" , . Note- Last fall, when members of Chief Justice Hughes' family, worried over his health, urged him to retire, he told them in. effect ef-fect that he was determined to stick it out until after the j 1940 election. ALLlUtY-ijiO-KUlJMD . - - ; Members of tne German Embassy, Em-bassy, apparently none too enthusiastic en-thusiastic over Hitler's treatment of private property, are buying up quantities of silver plate at U. S. Jewelry stores. This ik one investment they can keep with less danger of Nazi confiscation . uMuuwtrcuu.. tjapej. editors the German Embassy staff . confided con-fided at dinner the other night that he was , worried over Germany's Ger-many's loss of ships, because now perhaps Hitler wouldn't have enough ships to land troops in England . . Perhaps remembering remember-ing Bob Taft'a. too-hurried Gridiron Grid-iron speech" last year, Senator Arthur Vandenberg 1 spent three weeks writing his It was rated one fo the most humorous in years. . ; I BOMBING : BILL, WHITE ; . President Roosevelt scored & neat one on his bid friend William Wil-liam Allen White, the sage of Emporia, Kansas, during his off-the-record session with the news- recently at the the senate committee to invest! gate wire-tapping was because he was suspected of inspiring the wire-tapping criticism of J; Edgar Ed-gar Hoover . . . One member of MODERNIZE YO U R HO M E . 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The President was talking about the war and the question of national defense, especially as it applied to "the Western Hemls- f phere. To illustrate his point,, he turned suddenly to Mr. White, who was sitting in the group before mm. - "For instance. Bill White may think he's a lot safer in Kansas than I am up in Hyde Park, N. Y" said the President, "but he isn't." ,, He went on to explain . that if enemy bombers were to. seek out Hyde Park they would have a longway to fly across the At lantic, But if- they wanted to bomb Bill' White in Kansas, it was relatively easy for them to fly up from Mexico where enemy air bases could be established. I DEWEY AND TAFT .y- ..; : ; , ::: Scrappy Tom Dewey may not have known it, but he beat . Bob Taft by exactly 24 hours in his challenge to battle it ' out for delegates in Maryland. . For some weeks Taft had been advised not: to enter the Mary' land primary, but was inclined to ignore that advice. Finally he sent Forrest Davis,-his ace news counselor, to make a quiet , survey sur-vey of the state. Davis reported , that there was a lot of Taft sentiment in Maryland, Mary-land, ' but ; that the Republican party was engaged in a fierce fac tional feud from which Taft should keep aloof. So he urged the Senator - to keep out. : ' This report was given Taft in a four-hour session at a down-town hotel. The argument dragged on during dinner, . with nothing de cided but with Taft. still inclined to make the Maryland fight. Fin any : it - was agreed to reacn a decision next day. But as the Taft party left the hotel; they picked up early edl tions of the morning papers an nouncing Dewey's entrance in the Maryland primary, and his challenge chal-lenge to other - candidates to do him battle. (tt mil mi stim 7 mmtm a 6917 mu em (mm m 'f VI tf k N y l 1 I f mm ------- - . Firestone dome and Auto Supply Stores s Mrs. George Q. Spencer entertained enter-tained a group of ladies at dinner Monday evening followed with a social evening. Cards were placed for Mrs. Howard of Salt Lake City, mother of the hostess Mrs. Laban Harding, Mrs. John F. Ole-son, Ole-son, Mrs. Sid Coray, Mrs. Golden Taylor, Mrs. Lee R. Taylor, Mrs. A. L. Curtis,; Mrs. A. C. Page, Mrs. Orla Stewart, Mrs,; Blaine Winters, Win-ters, Mrs. Earl Page, Mrs. Spencer Snow and Mrs. W. A -McClellan. Mrs. Weston Bean was hostess to the ladies of her bridge club Monday night. Nasturtiums were used for the attractive .table decorations. dec-orations. Prizes were won by Mrs. Walter Ware, Mrs, Floyd Harmer, and Mrs. LaVard Wright. ; Mr. and Mrs. Dick-Manwarlng of Salt Lake City and Miss Margaret Mar-garet McCormick of Eureka have returned home'f rom 'SanrAntonlo, Texas where they have been visiting visit-ing for two weeks with I LaVar Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Johnson of Payson who is in . the U. S. army air corps at Randolph and Kelley Field. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll wuson EDGEMONT MRS. EVA GILLESriE , Reporter Phone C40-J-3 - Mr. and Mrs. WrUliam F. Wls-comb Wls-comb attended a family reunion at Salt Lake City Monday evening, even-ing, when' all members " attended a temple session. They were accompanied ac-companied by Mr. and Mrs. Vern Dixon. Mr. D. H. Jones and daughter, Mrs. Helen Hull left Monday for Los Angeles, where Mr. ; Jones will attend a celery growers convention con-vention this, week and they will visit with another daughter, Mrs. Elva Stewart and family. , Mr. and Mrs. John Yeates and son Dallas are spending several days at Logan this week. The following ladles from Edgemont attended an excursion of thirty three Sharon Stake Relief Re-lief society .workers to Salt Lake Wednesday, when they visited the central warehouses of the Church Welfare, 'the Deseret Industries and the Presiding Bishop's offices. of-fices. Mrs. Sharp Gillespie. Mrs. Wells O. Mccham Mrs. Ella Baum. Mrs. Flora Bigler, ' Mrs. Elmer Taylor and Mrs. Harvey one Booth. They also attended session at the temple. On Friday evening at 8 o'clock the Page School children will present the operetta "Cinderella in Flowerland." All parents and patrons of the community are invited in-vited to attend. . ' Junior-Senior Day Scheduled " PAYSON Friday is the annual Junior - Senior day at Payson high school with a day filled with interesting activities planned. Included In-cluded will be competitive assem bly programs from each class. Closing feature will be the Senior Hop In the new gymnasium gymnas-ium at night. Keith Dixon is sen ior president and Max Fowler president of the Junior class and they are in charge of the events. GERMANS NAME NORWEGIAN COMMISSION fclC BERLIN, April 25 UJE Josef Ter Boven,. Gauleiter of Essen. was named commissioner of Nor wegian occupied territory today and authorized quarters said this action marks the beginning of un restricted German sovereignty over occupied .Norwegian territory. Cotton Interests Uoics Opposition To Patman's Dill WASHINGTON. D. C. April 24 King Cotton today Joined the lost list of basic American industries indus-tries which have recorded emphatic em-phatic opposition to the I 'at man bill to tax chain stores out of existence. Cotton's stand was outlined at a house subcommittee hearing on the bill by Dr. Claudius T. Mur-chlson. Mur-chlson. president of the Cotton Textile Institute, who spoke for 10 million farmers. 130 million consumers and the entire industry. "The Pat man bill belongs to the law of the jun&le be said. "It alms only to destroy without rebuilding. Chains sell 40 per cent of all American cotton sales, the loss of which would seriously affect af-fect the nation's economy. "Cotton "Cot-ton week drives supported by the chains, made a record consumption consump-tion last year- It would be an economic tragedy If this promotional promo-tional activity were disrupted - by hamstringing its most sympathetic force." , Harry J. Gerrity, general count ael. National Association of Building Build-ing Owners and Managers, also condemned the bill, saying it would kin $50.000.000 in rentals. The sponsors claim that the Patman bin to place a crushing tax on chain stores would curb monopoly was spiked today by W. A. Gordon, secretary of National Na-tional Association of Local Creameries, Cream-eries, as he testified Wednesday. The bill would have a 'diametrically 'diamet-rically opposite effect, he said, "because it would remove from the competitive picture highly potent po-tent bidders for products of thousands thou-sands of dairy farmers." We have no fear of monopoly so long as chains exist to buy competitively In the dairy market. But would feel less a?.;urei if Cr-prived Cr-prived of their enormous cutlets," cut-lets," he a aid. Mr. Gordon told -the cor. pressmen press-men that chains pay premium prices for quality products the higher prices stimulated tftem lv Improve dairy products by observing observ-ing better practices, resulting in Increased millions of income to dairymen nationally. Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Ho til tftth drj. inp vr wl wfcrn row t".t. ft. Um ( D-mi poster I l- t n k I H ttrmy met. lilr caefnl-tit fli f "- (r, p.!T or J 1 1 9 C-. ot JAw- Announcement! KOW OPEN Park Do-She Svimming Pool Also Roller Skatinff Now Is the Time to duild on impnouE You should immediately take advantage of our com-'plete com-'plete loan service for the building of that new home or to modernize your present home. We are continually continu-ally building and improving homes in this community. Our easy terms and low interest rate have made us many friends and satisfied home owners. Contact us immediately for full details. Quick and efficient sen-ice will be given. ; " : ' Curtis ' Insurance Agency, Inc. 174 W. Center, Provo Our Telephone i3 No. 86 and friends from rayson, Spanish , - Fork and Provo Saturday evening, The occasion was their Silver Wedding anniversary and they re ceived a number or lovely guts of silver. The table was centered with a wedding cake, topped with entertained a number of relatives a miniature bride and groom. From "Jungle Boy to Schoolboy 0 A (M . 1 Y f4. '.vv j 1 1 j. ! i i ! j - r J " ill V ; t- f I ' ' ' l '- , . . , i i ' ' . Stranger than the fiction of Kipling's Mowgli, "The Jungle Boy," is the story of this young El Salvador Indian boy. In 1933 fanners of the Sonsonate province captured, after many months search and a severe fight, a strange jungle "animaL" The "beast" was a 5-year-old boy. Farmers guessed his parents died when he was two; that he lived on fish and berries, killing jungle enemies, like poisonous snakes, with his bare hands. Today Ruben Marroquin, now 11, and thoroughly "civilized," still, returns to the jungle where, as seen at left, he exhibits ape-like prowess in tree climbing. climb-ing. But he always returns to school (right), where he is rated a i " Eod. scholar. i 223 WEST CENTER ST. PHONE .19 DR. H. GLARK REYNOLDS ; Physical Therapy Clinic : Specializing in Arthritis, Constipation, Eczema, Diseases of the Rectum (Piles, Fistula, etc), and Hernias, and . difficult 'conditions. 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