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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD; WEDNESDAY; , APRIL- -y 1942 PAGE-"THREE HOVE STARTED TO RE-ROUTE 'OREM TRACKS t Provo chamber of commerce is devoting efforts to a move to Induce the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad to move its tracks from Center street and University avenue. ave-nue. Officials of the chamber at a meeting with the city commission commis-sion Tuesday claimed the tracks are a detriment to the city, and suggested immediate -steps be taken, since the state road commission com-mission and the city are planning plan-ning to resurface Center street from University avenue to Fifth West in June. The matter of checking the .Salt Lake & Utah railroad's franchise was referred to I. E. Brockbank, city attorney, and the chamber of commerce will meanwhile sound out the sentiment senti-ment of the business men. The railroad company has a franchise running until 1960. This is for passenger service only, however, and freight cars can be prohibited from using the downtown tracks by the city, it was stated at the meeting. Provo city has contacted the company, but the company wants to continue as is. The company now has an "alternate "alter-nate right of way running along Fifth South street from Twelfth West to University avenue and this route could be used without any great loss of business, chamber cham-ber of commerce officials declared. de-clared. Business men will be petitioned to request the change and a meeting will be arranged with railroad company officials, it was stated. Loans Available For Small Plants SALT LAKE CITY, March 31 tE W. J. Johnson of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, assistant chief of the examining division of the RFC, today told members of the advisory advis-ory cdmmittee of the RFC Salt Lake agency that funds are available avail-able immediately for all industrialists indus-trialists desiring to convert their plant facilities to war production. Johnson emphasized the fact that the Salt Lake agency has authority to grant loans up to $100,000. This, he said, has been done in an effort to eliminate all red tape and speed the conversion of plants to war production. The local RFC agency, through its manager, G. L Leaver, urged all business men who desire to convert con-vert their plants to contact the local war production board. Navy Relents on Marriage Ban WASHINGTON, April 1 (l-H) The navy today chose April Fool's Day to end a 10-year struggle against Dan Cupid. It was not outright surrender, however. An order was issued suspending for the war period only a regulation regu-lation prohibiting regular naval and marine corps officers from marrying within two years of their commissioning. The glad tidings were flashed to ships and stations everywhere. The prohibition applied mainly to graduates of the U. S. Naval Academy, who were required to sign agreements not to marry'fo the two-year period. "No Child olHinouill .vnrunrnnn Don't be so sure, Motherl Anybody, anyirhere, can he roundworm I Yh, and the u?ly creature may b living inside your child right now, starting trouble, without your even knowing it. If your child is pale, underweight, nervous, has an uneasy " stomach, picks ;it nose or seat these ugly roundworms ma be at work. Play safe ! Get Jayae'i Vermlfote at once. It mcts very K :ntly, yet expels stubborn worms. And if no worms are there, it acta just as a mild laxative. Jayne's Is America's best known proprietary worm medicine, used by millions, for over a century. Demand Jayne's Vermifuge! At all drug stores. (Adv.) -FOR A TRAINED CREW TO ROW g ...OR FOR YOU TO GET THIS FREE PROTECTION eonu TDAiMPn CTAMriADn CSPPUirF AAFMI Co scavos zo am you SQMeoNt itse-AN Acabavr) mm 1 1 I aastji mm City ' Mrs. J. R. Teague of .Pleasant View,: has returned from San Diego, Di-ego, CaHf. where she has spent a delightful week visiting her son, Corp. Wauas R. Teague, who is stationed with the marine corps. Places of interest were visited on the coast. Mrs. J. Wesley' Bray (Lucile Harris) and ' son, Kent, of Anti-och, Anti-och, Calif., have arrived here to spend two weeks with her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Harris and Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Bray. Mrs. Daa Hunter, Mrs. Dean Tucker, Mrs. L. B. Harmon, Mrs. Karl Bandley and Mrs. ' Hfber Taylor, of Salt Lake City, were in Provo today visiting friends. They came to attend the Ladies' Literary club Easter "picnic." Mr. and Mrs. Wa??ie Evan and son, Bliss, of San Diego, Calif., are visiting here with relatives and friends for a week. Miss Evelyn WUlett of Fairfield, Fair-field, is among the visitors in Provo Pro-vo today. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Thomas and children of Logan, spentTues-day spentTues-day in Provo with Mrs. Etffcabeth Thomas. Mr. and Mjtn. Heber Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Weston and "Miss Patty Lue Weston, all ctf Boise, Idaho, are spending a few days at the home6f Mr. and Mrs. Benson Weston; who recently moved here from Idaho Falls. INDIA (Continued from Page One) be made in the defense proposals. A statement by Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, chairman of the non-party leaders, urging appointment of an Indian member of the defense council, may have encouraged the belief that there was hope of a compromise on that point. Mu-kund Mu-kund Ramro Jayakar, a former member of the judicial committee of the privy council in London, joined in the Sapru statement. Other factions, including the powerful Moslem minority, took the view tonight that in event the All-India congress party rejects re-jects the British plan, there will be no need for them even to consider con-sider it formally. Leaders of the chamber of princes, who are the most favorably favor-ably inclined toward the British, also were re-acting unfavorably to the plan because they had failed to obtain explanation of provisions provis-ions which most directly affect them. The congress reply to Crippa was being completed by C. Raja-goplachari, Raja-goplachari, a moderate pro-British member of the working committee, com-mittee, thu3 indicating that counter-proposals might be expected. The. reply may be ready on Thursday. Thurs-day. SENATE (Continued from Page One) ate those plants by "freezing" all working conditions except wages. Under today's agreement, the motion to take up the bill will be automatically before the senate when it reconvenes for business April 20. However, If the senate returns to work earlier, the Con-nally Con-nally motion still would have precedence. pre-cedence. Barkley announced to the senate sen-ate that three-day recesses will be held beginning next Monday. The brief meetings on these occasions occa-sions are merely to observe certain cer-tain parliamentary technicalities. Senate leaders have been advising advis-ing members to go home and sound out the sentiment of thei constituents on the labor situation. situa-tion. The Green Mountains are Vermont. in Principal raw material for TNT is toluol, produced chiefly in byproduct by-product coke ovens. (BEST SPEED, 5 SECONDS) STANDARD 1 Provo Flier Makes Progress .. s ! ... . ' , v H - - " 4 V: i Merrill Christopherson (left), Provo airport manager, presents Leo Ferre of Provo wit his flight instructors' certificate at the Salt Lake airdrome. Ferre earned the certificate by passing stiff flight and written tes-ts. He received all his training on the Provo airport field. A year ago last October he piloted a trainer plane from Lock-haven, Lock-haven, Pa., to Provo. He has also made many other long flights. Columbia Steel To Expand Plants On Pacific Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 1 Columbia Steel company, subsidiary sub-sidiary of United States Steel Corporation, today announced additions ad-ditions and improvements to its Pittsburgh and Torrance, Calif., plants which will increase materially ma-terially their production of steel for the nation's war effort. The expansion program, which will provide additional open hearth and electric furnace capacity as well as alterations and improvements in finishing facilities, will be undertaken un-dertaken entirely with the Corporation's Cor-poration's own funds at an estimated esti-mated cost of $8,500,000. The installation in-stallation will be completed with all possible speed. The additional expansion of Columbia's Col-umbia's steel-making facilities will complete U. S. Steel's part, amounting to more than one-third, one-third, in the 10,000,000-ton steel ingot expansion program recom mended last year by government defense authorities. These new U. S. Steel facilities, the major part of which are being built at the expense and for account ac-count of the government, embrace, em-brace, in addition to the Columbia Colum-bia Steel program, vast new iron and steel producting facilities in the Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chicago, 111., districts, and the construction construc-tion of new iron and steel producing produc-ing and finishing facilities in Utah and California. In addition. United States Steel Corporation has numerous other projects providing pro-viding substantial additions and improvements to its manufacturing manufactur-ing facilities in various localities to meet war-time demands. Work on these various projects is rapidly rapid-ly going forward. CITY COURT G. W. Dowdle, 49, of Santa-quin, Santa-quin, pleaded guilty to reckless driving In Provo city court Wednesday, Wed-nesday, after a charge of drunken driving had been dismissed on motion of City Attorney I. E. Brockbank. Dowdle had pleaded innocent to the latter charge. . He was, fined $35 on the reckless reck-less driving county by A. L. Booth, city judge pro tern. Dowdle was arrested by Provo police while driving on Third South between University avenue aven-ue and Seventh East March 25. The complaint said he drove at a "very slow" rate of speed and in a zig-zag manner. YARDS... yvssag .jr, n itQGJG f?fl0)C0 7 f i Sears Employees Get Scrap Metal Sears, Roebuck and company employes of Provo Tuesday completed com-pleted a 10-day drive to aid the government collect scrap metal and other materials for war program. pro-gram. The drive resiiTted in collection of 4965 pounds of scrap materials, R. L Erickson, drive chairman, reported. This included: Iron, 3305 pounds; brass, five pounds; copper, 130; aluminum, 95; zinc, 20; rubber, 65, paper, 1340; and rags, 10 pounds. Forty-seven employes participated partic-ipated in the campaign. The Boy Scouts made the pick-ups. The scrap material was delivered to salvage channels to go into the war program. GERMANS (Continued from Page One) and Italy, to hold the rest of the long front. , The reward of success would be the oil-rich Caucasus. The price of failure might well be Hitler's Hit-ler's quick doom. Observers pointed out that the offensive would undoubtedly use the flower of Germany's army. If the Russians crushed it, they said, the Germans might never recover from the loss of men and material. On the other hand, the 2,500,00 men defending the other 1,750 miles of the front would be second-raters, and the soldiers of German satelliate countries could not be expected to hold the con-' quering Russians. Reports of many fresh German divisions pouring into the southern south-ern front has coincided in recent days with news that the roads are beginning to harden and will permit offensive action in a few weeks. The Russian news agency Tass reported that the Germans were hurling troops Intended for the much-advertised spring offensive into action in the Crimea, only to have them "ground to dust" by the soviet forces. As usual, the Russians were reticent about developments along the front, though the London Daily Herald's Stockholf correspondent corres-pondent wrote that both Germans and Russians agreed a big battle was raging near Leningrad. He said it began Sunday when the nussians aiiacKea wiin iresn forces and the Moscow radio reported re-ported the capture of a strategic point. Strone German counter attacks supported by tanks had failed with exceptionally heavy losses, ne said. The Russian communique last midnight said nine localities were captured on the Kalinin front. northwest of Moscow, where fleht ing has been heavy lately. It also described fierce battles , on the central front, in which the Rtis sians captured a locomotive with 80 coaches and 40 wagons of goods, and said that on the south. em front infantry supported by aruiiery naa demolished large quantities or material. " Thirty-six German planes were destroyed on Sunday, instead of the 25 previously reported, the communique asserted, and on Monday 25 German planes were snot down, aerainst six Russian aircraft lost. Five enemy planes were destroyed yesterday in the aioscow area. MIDDLE-AGE HEED THIS ADVICEIl If you're crews, restleas, suffer hot flashes, nervous feelings, dizziness caused by this period In woman's life try Lydla E. Pink ham's Vegetable Vege-table Compound. Made especially for women. Thousands upon thousands thou-sands helped. Follow label directions. direc-tions. WORTH TRYING I Primary Election Slated Thursday Primary elections for publications publica-tions ' editors ' and Associated Women Wo-men Students officers will be held at Brigham Young - university Thursday with the final elections slated a 1 week later. Three candidates for the editorship edi-torship v of ; the-' Banyan, are Don Bowen of Brigham; Betty Clark', of Denver, Cold. and Clara Jensen Jen-sen of Manti. Candidates for the editor of the "Y"; News, are Anne ' Walker,' Pleasant Grove; DeMar Teuschef, Rexburg, Idaho; James HeCKer, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; and Basil Ramonovich, Lykens, Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Two will go into the finals. Only one AWS office will be in the primaries, that of recreational recrea-tional leader. Candidates are Vaudis Andrus, Holladay, present W. A. A. president; Geneve Hick-enlobper, Hick-enlobper, Layton; and Rlnda Taylor, Tay-lor, Col. Dublain, Chihuahua, Mexico. Other offices and candidates who will be voted on in the finals are President, Glenna Perkins, Salt Lake City; and Louise Abegg, Colonia Jaurez, Mexico: Vice-president, Vice-president, Eileen Palmer, Leth-bridge, Leth-bridge, Alberta, Canada; and Betty Bet-ty Ruth Christensen, Provo. Dolores Dol-ores Rasmussen, of Provo, is the only candidate for the office of secretary-treasurer. JUST ARRIVED! EASTER COTTONS Water Prospect ft x urci in u luur SPANISH - FORK Snow conditions condi-tions on ths Diamond Fork-Hobble Fork-Hobble Creek watershed is more favorable this year than it has been; ' since - 1937, according to Merrill Nielson, forest ranger for the Spanish York 1 district. 'I The Diamond Fork-Hobble Creek snow course "was established in 193? on what is knowtas the Pumphouse ridge: - f. ' " The measurements this year on March 30, showed a Snow depth of 3B.TU incnea with a water content of 12.70 inches. The average snow depth for the last six ' years .' is 31.90 inches - with average ' water content of 11.60 inches. The Sn6w is well, packed and very little melting has taken place to date. There is no frost in the ground and a large amount of the run-off will go into the Soil. Howeverif the weather should turn warm within the next two ro three weeks, a heavy run-of can be expected ex-pected as the snow is still low on mountains. Th ater prospects or 1942 should be better than for the past six years, Mr. Nielson says. NOMINATION CONFIKMUD WASHINGTON, April 1 UPJ The senate late yesterday confirmed con-firmed the nomination of Thomas F. Corbally, to be register of land offices at Great Falls, Mont. - "Fresh as a wink" cottons for your little girl's Easter! Whirling Whir-ling dirndls, dickie dresses (just like m o t h e r's) princess styles. Perfect for school, play or "best." ADORABLE NEW STYLES Every gay new color and print! "Vitamin" prints, rainbow stripes . . plaids, checks, sol-. sol-. ids, dots! Full skirted dirndls, jumper dresses dress-es in every new ' ? .. . style! . . . Colorful . . shrink-proof. Dimity! Pique! Broadcloth! Chambrays!" 1Kb Progress Made on Mattress Project " ''t:i ' . SPANISH FORK A free mattress mat-tress factory is going forward this week at the National Guard armory. ar-mory. The project is for the benefit bene-fit of low income farm families of the district. 1 According to Harvey A. Nielsen, low income families, those taking more than naif their Income from the farm and earning earn-ing less than $600 yearly and have received no other aid, are entitled en-titled to the service. Nineteen bales of surplus cotton cot-ton and enough ticking to make it into mattresses has been received free of charge at Spanish Fork. Ten mattresses can be made at a time - at the armory, and Mrs. Mary" Marcusson is supervising the work. Mrs. Bessie At wood U acting act-ing as assistant supervisor of the work. Mrs. Bessie K. Lemon, home demonstration agent is in charge of the work and the local committee commit-tee consists of Harvey A. Nielsen, L B. Snell, Mary Marcusson. Frank Nelson, Mayor John E. Booth, Mrs. Phebe Markham and Mayor Elmer Sabin of Salem. CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST L. A. MAYOR LOS ANGELES, April 1 UJ! Grand Jury charges accusing Mayor Fletcher Bowron of misconduct mis-conduct of office were dismissed today by Superior Judge Raymond Ray-mond Mcintosh. THINGS TO MAKE THEIR EASTER A v ,n i NO THANKS-MY ALL LEATHER im VITAL FARTS Tbe demand for leather counters. In. sole and heel bases, the vital wearing parts of shoes, Is becoming more pro nounced every day. Leather wears longer and boks better, and ear Red Coose styles are Mraetire-ly Mraetire-ly priced. ' V 9 "For Thrifty Shoppers" CLASS NAMES VALEDICTORIAN PLEASANT GROVE Joy Fag, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George , Fage. was Chosen valedictorian of the senior class at Pleasant Grove high school Tuesday, according to Keith Bezzant, class president. Honor students are Eleroy West, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. West; Ellen Richins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Richins; Beverly West .daughter of Attorney D. A. West of Salt Lake City.- These outstanding students were selected by a vote of the class from a group of eight. All four wiU speak at commencement exercises. This Day . . . BORN Boy, to William . and Marjorie Richardson Bernbrock, March 27, at St. Joseph's hospital in San Francisco, Calif. Girl, to George and Barbara Baker Knight, today, Utah Valley hospital. , - LICENSED TO MARRY Stanley Melvlh Briggs, 25, Provo, Pro-vo, and Wanda Lucy Henry, 21. Idaho Falls, Idaho. Paul Carlyle Bradshaw, 34, Provo canyon, and Velma Pearl Stanley, 23, Provo canyon. 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