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Show s ' Call The Herald U yea do not receive your Hernia promptly, call The Herald office' 495, before 7 p.m. weeks days, ami 10 a. m. Sundays, and m copywlIJ bo delivered to you. . " ; 77: e Weather IT All: Generally fair tonight aad eOrLT. Little c-haxj la temperature. JIailmmn Imp, Monday ... 5 Minimum trmp Monday ... S3 FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 223 . SoS&rYSSS' PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, ' TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940 COMPLETE t-HITED PRF" rSIJMRAPH NEWS ERV1CB PRICE HVE CENTS BIT? (O T- n n T mi BY THE EDITOR r i n uvJbvJ CM A An explanation of the origin orig-in of the term "fifth column? has been requested by several Herald readers. ; , The expression referring to an active, internal spy organization organ-ization within - the country, originated in the Spanish civil war when Franco's General Mola advanced on Madrid, boasting: "We - have -four columns advancing. : on the capital and one column awaiting await-ing the signal within.". J, - 0O0 - : j The Dies committee has revealed re-vealed the presence of a "fifth column" in the United States. With the help of the . FBI the traitors will be located lo-cated and proper measures taken to render their nefarious nefari-ous work much less effective. ' . 0O0 . ; Americans 'returning from London say the, story, theyfre telling in England is that the next great war will ie fought between . the two yellow races . Japan a n d . the - United States. And then they laugh and laugh. . - . Now that it's all happened, Sumner Welles might tell us just what it was, if anything, that Europe's , bigwigs confided con-fided to him about the future of the war. " -oOo ' - It looks as if we can go on trusting ourselves for that 45 billion debt we owe us. . With things , the way ,,they are abroad, r thexe.'s t no. danger, of. us skipping the country. merry: GO-ROUND A Daily Pictur of What' Gotzg On in National Affairt Ey DREW PEARSON ROBERT S. s ALICES President ; Chopped 2 Billion Off Army, Navy 'National Defense Proposals ; .i Stuck - To Urgent Needs to Avoid Delay ; New Schools Train 12,000 Fliers ; U. S. Has Failed To Co-operate : With Latin America To Protect Hemisphere; Vandenberg Stymied" Destroyer Deal; Argentine Meat Treaty Pigeon-Holed. WASHINGTON Only those around the White House knew R, but the president'. $t,182,000.000 emergency defense program was only about one-third of that urged on him by : his army and navy chiefs. ,.". Their original ' program called for a total of $3,000,000,000, of which approximately $2,000,000,-000 $2,000,000,-000 was , for Immediate expenditure; expendi-ture; the rest to be authorizations for future outlavs. A large part of the additional money was proposed for expanding ship-building facilities anS the construction con-struction of navy vessels already authorized, "but , for which . no money has yet been voted. Another An-other big chunk, was for enlargement enlarge-ment of plane building equipment by erecting government plants in strategic sections of the country. These plants presumably; would have - built fighting planes under patent licenses from private owners. own-ers. The plan . was parCfcuIariy designed to solve the "bottleneck" problem of large-scale production of airplane motors. Roosevelt vetoed these . and other proposals on the ground that they, would lead to congressional congres-sional controversy,; thereby delay the urgent phases of the program. He thought the wisest course was to confine the program to items most needed and get them started immediately:: Later the situation could be re-examined, he said, and a new program , formulated if necessary. . r . . That is the background for the cryptic statement in his message, "I will not hesitate to call the congress con-gress into special session if at any time the situation of. the national na-tional defense requires It ' , - 4c '. ' I J TRAINING CENTERS : : i Although Roosevelt did not : go into details, the bulk of the money (Continued on Tage Three) 1 SiL VISITORS DUE l PRQl'O HURSDAv Speakers Announced To Greet Salt Lake Good-Will Group Speakers at the banquet to be given here Thursday eve- nine by the Salt Lake cham ber of commerce friendship tour delegation, were announced an-nounced ' today by ' Clayton Jenkins, chairman of local arrangements. ar-rangements. - i ' They are Dr. Christen Jensen, acting president of Brigham Young ' university, and Frank. "J. Earl, director of the Provo chamber cham-ber of commerce, representing Pro vo, and President Herbert A. Snow and Wilson McCarthy, represent tag the Salt Lake chamber. ; Each wiH spealc on a good-will theme. : J. C. ' Moffitt, president of the Provo chamber of com' merce, will "Be toastmaster, 1 .The friendship tour train, carrying carry-ing some 150 Salt Lakers, wiU arrive in Provo at 6:10 p. m,, via Denver and : Rio Grande Western railroad. From the depot the visitors visi-tors 'will "promenade" ' nortli ' on Third .West to Center street, east to University avenue, and south on . University avenue to the CCC camp, where dinner will be served at 7 p. m.,-with 150 Utah county businessmen-as guests. ' They will leave .raovo at 12, midnight. , . Governor Henry ' H. . Blood " has accepted an invitation to be a distinguished; guest of the Salt Lake City-leaders on their tour. According Us Wea- Hamilton,6 assistant as-sistant secretary of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce.' G.O. P. NOTABLES if 0 VISIT UTAH ' SALT, LAKE CITY, 'May ; 21 'lW.t Donald Hornbeck, v chairman of the lYoung" Republican National Nation-al federation, will arrrive Monday for -a meeting i with .Salt Lake committeemen. His visit will be followed by Mrs. Robert A.; Taft, wife of Senator Taft, Ohio . presidential presi-dential , aspirant, on May 28. Frank .'Gannett,5 newspaper ; publisher pub-lisher in the Republican presidential-nomination race, also wUl ar rive here on May 28 to confer with party chiefs. Professor Dies From Crash Hurls SALT LAKE CITY, May 21 UJ? Miss Blanche Cooper,' 59, an assistant professor of home economics eco-nomics at the University of Utah, died yesterday afternoon of injuries in-juries sustained in an automobile accident Friday. Her death raised traffic ? fatalities for Utah to 53, an increase of over one-third for a corresponding period last year, Provo Young Honored J MRS RUTH THROCKMORTON Hew Allied Chief -v. 1 oa3 General MaximeWeygand, 73, named generalissimo of the Allied Armtes In place of Maurice Octave Gamelin. He was the right-hand man of Generalissimo Pocn during the World War.- Landon To Confer With Roosevelt ' WASHINGTON, May 21 (UX- Presldent Roosevelt- today personally person-ally renewed his invitation to his 1936 opponent, Alf : M. . Landon, to confer with, him tomorrow at the . White House, and announced that Landon has- accepted. ' : . White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said earlier cancellation of the engagement was the result in a mixup ' due to negotiations through intermediaries. , He said Mr. Roosevelt cut through the confusion this morning " with - a long : distance : telephone " call v to Landon at Chicago. It : was . decided then ' that - the 1936 Republican standard, bearer would lunch ' tomorrow , at the White House,' as had been planned last week. - ' i The announcement xf the ' new engagement ? came '- a few " hours after Brig; Gen. Edwin M.. Watson, Wat-son, another White , House secretary, secre-tary, had ; said" the luncheon had been - called off. Early' said.' how ever, that Mr.- Roosevelt merely had wanted to postpone the lunch eon engagement for one day rathr er than to cancel it entirely..' The r confusion - followed reports Mr. ' Roosevelt is considering the possibility of : forming a . coalition cabinet, perhaps by .naming. Col. Frank Knox as secretary", of E'&So Snrfor ' Edison who is resigning to run for . resigning to run governor of New. Jersey. ; - . - 1 u 11 in ' 1 1 ' ' t.tr Lions Club Plans Float For Parade One of the first - service clubs in .Provo to take action, support ing the entry of a representative float in the Fourth of July parade, is the Provo Lions Ctub. At 'the last : meeting of the : club, : the membership voted unanimously to have -the organization represented with, a float, the plans and de sign to be in the hands of the decoration committee of the dub. Republicans by State Gripup - Utah county's Young . Republicans Republi-cans made quite a ahowiny ' at the recent convention" of the Young Republican1'.'. League r of Utah at Salt Lake City, advises Veri "G. t Dixon, president of the group. " " " ' . ' "''' Foz instance, ' Mrs. Ruth Throckmorton Throck-morton of Provo was . selected first vice . president of the league and A. Sherman Christenson, - also of Provo, besides serving as convention con-vention chairman, was named a delegate to the Young Republican Republi-can national convention. Provo contributed Bessie Cand-laiid Cand-laiid and Bert Lewis to the league's lea-gue's executive council, and Owen Rowe and Mr. Dixon to the resolutions- and credentials committees, commit-tees, respectively, as'Utah coun? ty's representatives.. . ; 1 . - Oi em was represented at - the confab by Phil Christenson, Utah county chairman, T. E. Twitchell, Clofene Lamb, Don Watkins, Lor-na Lor-na ' Mecnam, E. R. Terry, J.' R. Gillespie, and Miivina Wiscomb, and others. .. ' DEBATE OH ARMY GILL SPEEDED UP Senator Proposes Sale Of U. S. Air Force To . , the Allies BULLETIN: ' WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.R) - Chairman David . I. Walsh and Carl Vinson of the senate and house naval , &U fairs committee today intro4 duced a bil authorizing Presi dent Roosevelt to purchase at least 10,000 naval warplanes and to establish new air base facilities at a maximum cost of $124,132,000. ' : , WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.R) In an atmosphere made tense by reports that fhe German military machine has pounded through to the English Eng-lish channel, the senate opened de bate today on a peacetime record $1,820,941,004 army appropriation bill. . Reports of the German suc cesses were brought to the sen-.' ate s . attention , by Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fhu, who introduced a resolution empowering the president presi-dent to sell the . army . and navy air force to the aUies. ; . Time Is of the essence," Pep-' per told the senate. "We must stem the tide of barbarism and dictatorship which at this moment seems about to engulf the world." -JEpMrsresoraUOTrintrodticca immediately after the- mige army measure was laid before the sen ate by Vice-President : John ' N. Garner, was sent to the foreign relations committee. .'. - , The. senate quickly set Itself to the' task of rushing the enormous army., appropriations to passage. A - clerk read commitTee amendments amend-ments so - rapidly" it was - almost impossible to follow, him. ". The army ,' bin, , incorporating regular -1941 apprbpriations and President Roosevelt's emergency preparedness requests, is part of the huge $3,124,921,732 program to bring .the army;and navy to their highest, peak of efficiency since World, war days. ; , .' Mr. .Roosevelt; met with chairmen chair-men of the senate and house naval affairs committee to discuss the advisability ' . of relaxing some ' of the legislative restrictions on the -agesd hoTurV of 'workmen em , .u.u..nJ1 ployed in shipbuilding. Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago ....... 012 000 000 3 Brooklyn : 000 002 002 A Passeau and Toddr Wyatt, Mungo (4), and Franks., , p All . others postponed, - rain. - ' AMERICAN LEAGUE New York .'.... 300 002 2 Cleveland . . .... .010 100 0 ' Russo and Dickey; Milnarl and Pytlalc ;." 1 . Boston . '. 005 04 V i Detroit . . 021 02 ' ' Galehouse and Desautels; Trout and Tebbetts. Washington . . . ... 000 104 . Chicago ....... 211 000 Hudlin and Ferrell; Knott Tresh. and Philadelphia . . ".' 100 ; ' : . St. Louis ...... 000 ' - '- Potter and Hayes; ' Harris and Swift. This Day... BORN ;. Boy, to Orrel and Arvilla Den- nison De Lange, born; Tuesday night. - - Boy, to Harold and Velma Bigelow Maag. , LICENSED TO MARRY Vernon Cecil Damico, 18,- Provo, Pro-vo, and Ida Brown, 17, Provo. Harry McGannon Barnes, 34, Laramie, Wyo., and Alice Spares Stewart, 31. Laramie. i Clarence Hansen, Jr.. 28, Laramie, Lara-mie, Wyo., and Sarah Louise Norton, 22, Laramie. Howard Boyd - Peterson, 27, Provo, and OHve . Thaxton, 23, RIverton. . - Clarence Wilson. 27, - Elmo, Utah, and Rinda s Rowley Carter, 26, Provo. ; . ... . British Troops Poised for Ndzi Advance . : j.....,,,. ... . , , A f j!'!-: I . ... f -. , , s f - - t - t- .. V ,.r - " .- r . - , ' - f 4 r-- . r.. .vA.Vv..-v ... ......... . - . Amid ruins of bombed and shelled buildings, a British anti-tank unit barricades bar-ricades to attempt to stem the "Nazi advance in Lou vain, but Germany's mechanized might was not to be denied, and British were forced from that : position by the Nazi drive. Cablephoto from London, Late News Flashes WASHINGTON, May 21 charged that refugees fleeing Europe are being machine-gunned by pursuing planes. : fbpeaking in a.pressi conference at the same time, he pledged that neither, capital fay'American defense preparations, and the New Deal's social reforms will be zealously guarded. . . V . i BERLIN, May 21 (U.R) British troops which were sent to Belgium at the start of Germany's blitzkrieg, are attempting attempt-ing to reach England and are under attack by the German air force, the official German news agency D. N. B. said today. The agency claimed that Allied forces were completely surrounded sur-rounded in'Belgium and northern France. r- : s - DEHPSEYS PLAN ;:T0 SEPARATE NEW "YORK; May 21"(Ui) Jack Dempsey,' ; former' world's heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion, and his second wife, the former Hannah Williams, . have entered into a separation ' agreement, Moses Po-lakoff. Po-lakoff. attorney for Mrs. Dempsey, announced late yesterday. Polakoff said there would be no court action. -He added Dempsey was out of town, and details of the settlement would' be worked out amicably when the former champion cham-pion - returns to New York next week. The Dempseys have two daughters.' daugh-ters.' - Rumors of . a disagreement between, be-tween, the couple because of Mrs. Dempsey' a , desire . to , resume her career as a night club entertainer, had been current - for months. They were, married July 18, 1933, at. Elko, Nev. It was the second marriage for each of them. 300 Attend WPA Dinner At Community Clubhouse , FJowery compliments to WPA and the work it has carried car-ried on in Utah county were heard by more than 300 who attended a community dinner at the golf clubhouse Monday night. .. . ' - ' . The dinner marked the kickoff to the "This Work Pays Your Community" week which, designed to acquaint the public with the work done by the professional and service projects of WPA, continues con-tinues to and including Saturday. Speakers were Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo, Mayor B. M. Jolley of Orem, and J. C. Moffitt, superintendent of Provo city schools, representing WPA pro j-ect j-ect sponsors; and Mary McMahon, Lois.; Downs and Mrs. Emma H. Wakefield, representatives of the various projects. Callahan In Charge William H. Callahan, Utah county coun-ty welfare 'department director, was master of ceremonies. Sandwiched in the program was a half -hour national radio broadcast, broad-cast, with Mrs. Eleanor - Roosevelt Roose-velt and Col. F. C. Harrington, WPA commissioner, as main speakers. Mayor Anderson said N Provo city has carried on WPA projects (Continued On Page Eight) 1 Jks 1. 1 1 3 4 (U.R) President Roosevelt before the Nazi advance In nor labor will lecome enriched rate LJ ww WW or Reports of a despicable act cf vandalism was made today by Thomas AUman, an officer of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. He reported that two window lights have been broken out at the Pioneer Memorial building in North park, one of the rocks, also shattering the glass in a pioneer , picture hanging on the wall. Mr. Allman points out ; that there Is a $50 reward ported on the grounds for any information leading to the apprehension of any person who damages any of the property. - uxneers or tne ' Iloneer or ganizations are highly indignant over the repetition of sucTi law less acta In defiance of property rights. They will welcome any in formation leading to the identif a- cation of the guilty party. Ghceircr Funeral Slated . Thursday Funeral services for George M. Cheever, 21, of Provo, who was fatally injured In an automobile accident near Eurley, Idaho, late Saturday, wiU be held In the Bonneville Bon-neville ward chapel Thursday at 2 p. m under the direJon of ET!L-op ET!L-op Lee C Morgan.- Friends may call at the Deseret Mortuary, Wednesday, and at the Cheever home. 428 East Second South street. Thursday prior to the services. interment will be in the Provo burial park. It was reported today that Earl Meacham, 20, Cheever's companion, compan-ion, who suffered serious injuries in the crash, is improving and may be brought to Provo in an ambulance ambu-lance Wednesday. Duilding A Hied Fight To Avoid J! rap Nazi Mechanized Units Push On in Irresistible Irresis-tible Advance; General Giraud Cap- tured, North Army Broken Up Bulletin:. LONDON, May 21 COR) German planes were sighted off the southeast coast of England tonight. Anti-aircraft batteries went into action against -. them. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Pit-mi Foreign News Editor German armies smashed a "formidable" wedge through France to the English channel today, reported the main French army in the north had been broken up, and that the British expeditionary rorce home under Nazi aerial attack. That the Allies had suffered tremendous reverses was becoming more evident every ishly prepared for an expected, attempt to invade England by air or sea. To Fignt un ite British and Frencn saia they would fight on, and that they would win. but a dispatch from Ricftard D. McMillan. Brit ish United Press correspondent ordered or-dered back from BEF headquar ters in France to London, said that the big battle now was to keep open the channel ports from which the British forces can es cape the Nazi trap in northern France. . Every hou? appeared to be con- soiidaUng the strength of the Ger- man gains as far as Abbeville, on the English channel, and Gen ap parently up the coast toward Le Touquet, on the 'road to Boulogne ana uauus. Allied counter attacks seemed Ineffective In the face of the Ger man mechanized thrusts, German bombing of all communications centers and landing of parachute troops which Paris said set fire to many vital towns and cities behind the lines. The desperate position cT Great Britain and France was admitted in the French senate, by Premier Paul Reynaud, who said "unbeUev-able "unbeUev-able blunders permitted the Nazi break-through on the river Meuse. But he promised the' Allies yet would conquer even if that requires re-quires a modern military force. Air Raid in Paris Almost as Reynaud 5 poke, air raid ""Warnings sounded in Paris, anti-aircraft guns thundered along the English channel, and England feverishly prepared against the (Conuiiuea on Pago Jnght) French Premier Deports Story of German Invasion PARIS, May 21 Premier Paul Reynaud admitted to the French senate today German armies had broken into France because un believable faults were committed" in the French command, and he promised puruSTiment of those responsible. re-sponsible. Admitting German forces today occupied Amiens and Arras, Reynaud Rey-naud said the Germans got into France across a Meuse river bridge which was not destroyed when apparently ap-parently orders for its destruction had been given. "The Fatherland is endangered," he said. "It is my duty to tell the senate the truth," In what was regarded as an exceptionally ex-ceptionally frank statement, Reynaud Rey-naud used the terra "disaster in describing the German break through. He admitted French strategy had been based on a misconception mis-conception that the Hver Meuae was an obstacle that could not be crossed. - But it was, he said, and German Ger-man motorized divisions invaded France on a front 65 miles across. Now, he said, they were smashing in me direction of Paris and the channel ports, and were threaten ing to cut off the armies in north ern France from their allies In Bel gium. SWEDEN PROTESTS GERMAN ACTION STOCKHOLM. Ifav 21 fT" p Sweden protested to Berlin today h gainst the action of a German seaplane in flvinir ovfr and ma chine gunning the Swedish, railroad rail-road station at Vassijaure yesterday. yester-day. The Swedes said the German luer juiiea one civilian. A rm ies Grimly was attempting to embark for hour, and Great Britain fever STRANGE WAR DESCRIBED BY CORRESPONDENT BY RALF1I HEINTJTX FRENCH ARMY-QE-VEEAii IfEADQUARTERS. May 21 CW wic a-j- lies and Germans are fighting the strangest war ever fought. It is a war between thousands of little forts, in each of them a couple to 10 or 15 sweaUrvg men, who sweep fields, forests, roada and village streets with fire. There are no witnesses but the men engaged,, but I have seen something, before corresposjler.tj were called back to headquarters, and heard more of the way this war is being fought. Tanks In Artion The allied tanks are now in action, ac-tion, smacking into German positions posi-tions with their guns blaxLig, firing fir-ing their ammunition, and racing rac-ing back to take on oil and more ammunition. There are two or three men In most of the tanks on the allied side. They come back blackened and sweated. The crews wear the special leather helmets, p&died front and back to protfet their heads which bang against the steel tank wails as the tanks lumber across ditches. As th tank goes into battle its apertures are shut and clamped tight, leaving only peep holes for the driver 'and gunner .to look through. Radio Equipped The gunner In the turret had a radio with ear phones through which to receive orders. He guides the driver by nudges of his toes because talk is Impoaisble in this din. After a few hours in the dm and heat of a tank the men are worn out. Yet the men in this battle, some of them, have been fighting for days from sunrise to sundown. Hot Infrequently . they faint away Inside the steel walla. Frequently the crews are stun-(Continued stun-(Continued on Page Eight) AUNT HET By Robert Clao Si' "I kBW vanity 1 a ia; but I can't hJp the way I feel, and I Vnow fit. Peter 1 goln to be aarratic wban he aka what about raj pie emit." crw |
