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Show . . i7ie 7eatslcf " - t7T.II Generally fair tonight and Saturday; scattered Iaowers or thunderstorms in higher mountains moun-tains Saturday, afternoon; little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Thursday . . Minimum temp. Thursday. .... 41 Call The Herald If yon do not receive your RermlJ promptly, call The Herald office, tcfore 1p.ni. weelc days, and 10 m. Sundays, and a copy wi3 b delivered to yon. - ... - - " FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 231 - .$g8iEShi S3S5FwS3 UTAH 8 ONLY DAILY SOUTH OH BAiT tiAKB PRXDVO, UTAH-COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940 PRICE FIVE CENTS r n ill "77) n n fo) pn n m 'UW 11 J UJ l y LJ Li LJ i J - i i ) i uu AL-il b I n zs u ZI W4 ' - - J I ! J' h . VJi J w Lj DESK VTTV BY THET EDITOR J "Is there a 'Fifth Column in Utah?" asks a reader, who has been stirred up . by .the war excitement. G-men - are investigating every possibility of subversive subver-sive activities in Utah, some of them having checked a-number a-number of suspicious cases in Prpvo and Utah county, according ac-cording to' reports. While there are' a number of persons, mainly of German descent, who glory in. - the success achieved by Hitler; and others, enemies, of the government of Ihe United States who would like to see the present order overthrown, their activities so far have been of comparatively harm less proportions. One German-born business man in Provo went so far as to place a protest with a com-- com-- mercial sponsor of a popular radio commentator.-: because of the latter outspoken criticism of Hitler and his anti-Christian, Nazi philoso phy. , Another ' German - native; who h a s adopted United States as his home, is said to have been promptly floored by a by-stander, when he enthusiastically,, en-thusiastically,, flashed, the Hitler salute following a heated argument about the While these may be only minor manifestations of misplaced mis-placed patriotism, those who accept, the hospitality of this nation' should subdue fnei'r national feelings, in times of stress like these,; or else return re-turn to ; their native ' land. This is ho time" for' divided allegiance: In case war should be declared by the United States, natives of the enemy nation Would be held accountable account-able for any hostile utterances. utter-ances. . " At tne -same time, we should not allow. war hysteria to get the better of our gooc i.. ...u:-tl . . O Norris says, may cause "one- half of loyal America to sus pect the other half and in the ena, ieaa to, war. ; MERRY GO-ROUND A DaUy Picturt of What'. Goisg On In National Affalri ry DCTW rSAR302f ROBERT ft. AUXSf U. S. National Defense Cost . Increased by German land British Monopolies ;Krupp ' Controls Military Patents in Concert With American i' iiusmess Menmiormaiion ; On U. S.' Armed Strength Gets Abroad Via Royalty Statements Rubber, Tin r iVV VViiliiiV. . Ait -: J w W fa ' America Halted by Powerful Power-ful Lobbyists.1., " (Editor Note Following Is the third article In The . Washington les on national defense Inefficiencies.) Inefficien-cies.) .. ' ; WASHINGTON No' story of national defense is complete without with-out digging into the . problem of supplies for the Army and Navy and the patent' monopolies which hike the taxpayer's cost of protecting pro-tecting the U. S. A. It yields pay dirt. It. shows that Germany actually actual-ly controls some of the patents most vital to the Army and Navy and is making this country pay through the nose for, them. Also it shows that some American business busi-ness men . have been cooperating with Germany in gouging the (Continued on Page Seven) mtTr y utah stake co;:ferg:ce UI'CED Sessions To Be Held Saturday, Sunday . . In . Tabernacle ' Quarterly ' conference will be held by the Utah L, I. S. stake Saturday and Sunday, announces K. "J. Murdock, stake president. . Elder George Albert Smith of the council of twelve apostles, apos-tles, will represent the gener al authorities. General ;sesslons are ' scheduled Sunday at 10:30 a. m. and 2 p. ra. at the tabernacle while the' Brig-ham Brig-ham Young: university baccalaureate baccalaure-ate services will take -the place of the evening session. The conference will . open Sat urday at 4 p. m. with' a welfare meetinsr in the L. D. S: administra tion building. First North and First West, with S all ward and stake welfare workers and priest hood quorum presidents expected to 'Attend. Priesthood Meeting At 8:30 a. m. Sunday will be a priesthood meeting: in the administration admin-istration building. All stake and ward Aaronlc priesthood committeemen commit-teemen ; and . supervisors, stake presidency, high council -and bishoprics bish-oprics are to be present. . Immediately following will be a special session at the - tabernacle, to start at 9:30 ft. m with all members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic priesthood ' urged to attend. at-tend. ' : . . : Besides ' Elder Smith, -speaker at the " Sunday general sessions will Include four returned missionaries. mission-aries. JlClhe sUkeuadJLaronic priesthood members.. At 7:30 p m Saturday will be a meeting in the Third ward chapel,' chap-el,' at which deacons . quorums .of the various wards' will participate in a contest on program of meetings. meet-ings. The ' quorum adjudged as wtnnrr will .outline' its- program at the 9:30 a. nw special session Sunday, Sun-day, , . . ; ' COLlMEnCELlEfJT PROGRAM READY The complete program of commencement com-mencement week . at - Brigham Young - university - was Issued Thursday from the office of Dr, Christen Jensen, acting president. Friday, May -31, is, designate as Senior day. Principal events of the day are the senior breakfast at 7 a. m., the class program in college hall at 11:30, class excursion excur-sion to Utah lake and Aspen Grove at 1:30 p. m a farewell program and senior trek at college hall and, other buildings of the campus , at 6- p..m. and the senior hall in the Women's .Gymnaum at V p.. ra. The baccalaureate "program will take place on' Sunday; June 2, at 7 ' p. m. there will . be . a sacred concert by the university; band on the. tabernacle . grounds." -Following the . procession of trustees, faculty, end ' graduating classes from the Education building to the tabernacle at 7:40, the baccalaur- (Continued on Page. Three) NO BASEBALL TODAY ' J NEW 1 YORK, May 31 (HE) There will ; be ho major . league baseball played r today. ., . The, Boston Red Sox-New York Yankee " game scheduled for New York was postponed because f rain. The only other ; scheduled game in ' both majors, ' Washington at Philadelphia, will be played -at a later date. , - v MM 'Goddess of Liberty' to Be . Named By Provo Celebration Her Majesty" : during Provo's Fourth of July celebration, the Goddess of Liberty, will be named and announced by June 4, accord ing to the committee directing her selection... . . . Not only . to meirn at the head of the big celebration's parade, but also to act as a queenly advance puwicity figure, the Goddess of Liberty will be one of the out standing personalities of the local 1940. Fourth - of Julv. To be chosen with iver are four, attendants attend-ants of .Vsub-goddessesl,. to grace Roosevelt, New Defense Boarid, Discuss Vital First meeting of President Roosevelt's' newly appointed advisory JD xrhro tha mpmhorfl wnthArAH Vf omnw o 1 Tir finA M.Ael4An 4m .Aatorf jr. ,yumra ; a. - njiuasen, namea f nituoii, Jeon tienaerson, unesier uavis ana wiiuam n. jvxcrteynoiu3, commission secretary, yjmy absentee is Sidney Hillman, due to sickness. . ' -! r- (d -" ' T ' ' ' ': ; y- ; ; Ogdeti Man Victim Of Road Crash COAL.VILX.Er Utah, May 31 (HE) Kenneth Jensen,- 21, Ogden, died early today at a Coalville hospital from .injuries ( suffered yesterday in . an automobile ..accident east, of here. ,..: , Jensen's death .was Utah's onlV Jholiday traffic , fatality, .J He - was Injured when a . car driven by Milton Facer, 22, also of Ogden, overturned on highway 30 in , Echo canyon. Jensen was thrown 'clear and .Facer said ' he was unable to locate his compan ion for more than ten minutes. The Victim Is survived by his widow and a ten-month old daugh ter.,':- ' r - - ' - ' : : Danli Empoivcred To Soil Stock In an order : signed . by - Dallas H. Young, .Fourth district judge today, ? Rulon , F. . Starley, Utah bank commissioner, in charge ' of liquidating, the Provo Commercial and " Savings . Bank 1 which closed its dors in. March of -1933,- was empowered to sellJlOO shares of 6 per cent preferred- Utah Power and Light company stock owned by the bank. . ' , . That sale-of the--stock be authorized au-thorized was. asked In a, petition filed by the banking . department recently!, - This Day . . . I--!' 1 BORN ; '.- .: ' ' ; - Girl, to Horace and Velma Anderson An-derson Christensen ,of . .Vivian Park, , this morning. . 7 LICENSED TO MARRY Clarence Arland Peterson, 21, Salem, and Viola May, White, 22, Eureka. v- Viron v' Washburn, legal age, Monroe, and Loraine Christiansen, legal age. Pleasant Grove. John Thomas Lorenz, 25, Provo, and Vera Maurine Bigelow, 23, Orem. . . Richard John Rowley, 31, Provo Bench, ? and "Lola ; B. Smith 21, Provo. . .- ' ' ' Milan Jacobsen, 22, Spring Lake, and Darlene Sanders, 18, NephL various - of the Important parade floats. . Candidates or suggestions as to whom the public would like these maidens fair to be should ba sub-mited sub-mited immediately to any one of the members - of the Goddess of Liberty committee: Jack Diavles, KOVO, PhylUs R. ' Brown or Jack Selck. The qualifications, say the committee, are "oeauty, personality and above-averaga height. ' . ,: Fina.1 selections of the five girls will be made by -this committee, meeting with the main parade committee headed by Ike Young. - j . i o:t,...w.v... Roosevelt . .". By RONALD fc. VAN TINE . " . ' WASHINGTON, May : 31, U.R) ':President Roosevelt asked congress today to increase "defense spending to approximately ap-proximately $5,000,000,000 . because of . what ' he termed ? a possibility that the American continent may become involved - , : 3 hu a world-wide war. - , . CIIAPELDIiiuES. SENIOR GIFT With. the presentation to acting President, Christen Jensen of over $400 as a senior '-. project ..fund tot purchase chimes for the . new chapel in Assembly Friday . noon. the graduating class of Brigham Young university under the direct tion of Darwin Reese,. Provo, presi dent, climaxed a half day of senior rule. . -i '-r.-. . . The day's activities began : with a breakfast on the lawn in front of ? the Maeser building on Univer slty HU1 at 7 a. m., in which the Junior class was host to the sen At 11 a. m. the honored guests for the day met in Room D at the lower campus decked out ' for the first time in thelr capa and gowns. From here thew went to their as-. sembly in College hall. - The afternoons activities besran it 1 :30 when the7 seniors - met in front of the Education building to board buses ' and private automo biles for an excursion to the bio logical experiment station at Utah lake, and then a trip to the sum mer school site in Aspen Grove. At 5:15 they met on the roof of the Education building to .ring; the old "Y" bell ? before starting on a trek of the campuses. As a prelude to the semi-formal Senior ball In .the evening the Gold ' (Continued on Page Three) ; HOLIDAY DEATHS HIT 150 HARK " BY UNITED PRESS , " The nation's toll '; of ; violent deaths reached the 150 mark as motorists . crowded the highways on the second day Of the Memorial day week end. -: Eighty persons were , killed; in highway accidents, 22 .were reported re-ported drowned, 16 , took their own lives as the country - honored its dead,, -and 32 died from other violence.. ' -: New York and Pennsylvania led the states in total deaths with 26. Of Pennsylvania's total, 16 died in automobile accidents. California Califor-nia reported 13 deaths, Indiana 13, Ohio 10 and Wisconsin nine. GERMAN OFFICER PRISONER IN LONDON LONDON, May 31 (HE) A German Ger-man officer prisoner, wearing a steel helmet and field boots, arrived ar-rived at Victoria railroad station here under escort of a British officer,' of-ficer,' and was met by officers and military policemen. , . ) Authorities- refused td identify the officer or give, his rank. If .::iwaprft:-,iliii mi tl ense " XJommission is . shown in 'an1 HAtitnst film lAf-t trt tHcrtit- ova Submits r Defense Plan K'fVy a,sjecial message to con gress, he also asked legislation to give"hlni the authority to call into active service such National Guard units as. be come necessary to maintain main-tain neutrality and-- national defense de-fense . . - ' , i - ' ' "Such. ' legislation also woidd authorize" him to call reserve personnel per-sonnel 4ntb 'active service.' " CriUcal Days - Ahead ' ; The, president said' that in the critical days' that lie ahead all the continents of the world, including the - North' American . continent, may become involved in the struggle strug-gle now 'raging abroad. " ; - 4 no individual, no group, 1 can clearly i foretell the future," he said. - As ' long, - however, as . a possibility exists that not one continent con-tinent or -two coninents, but ail continents may become involved in a world-wide wUr, reasonable precaution pre-caution demands that American defense be made more certain."!-- certain."!-- Mr. Roosevelt specified no exact figure for the added defense pro gram. -V Details will be given . to congress through his military sad naval specialists.--But he said it would ; be costly runnine over $1,000,000,000. - ' v It was understood the full new program wouldapproximate 51,-250,000,000. 51,-250,000,000. This would be broken down, into approximately - $700,- 000,000 for the army, $300,000,000 for the navy and $250,000,000 to train almost . a million young Americans in ' semi-military 'technical 'tech-nical v skills necessary for operation opera-tion of a mechanized war. machine. Such a program would drive defense appropriations and authorizations auth-orizations for the coming fiscal year close to a total of $5,000,- 000,000 a figure tinarrproached since . this nation's participation in the World War in 1917-18. Mr. Roosevelt said that die almost incredible events of the past . two weeks in the European conflict". referring presumably to the ' Allied defeat in Flanders have necessitated" acquisition of airplanes, tanks, anti-air and antitank anti-tank guns 1 r,"td ' mechanized vehicles, ve-hicles, beyond- the $1,182,000,000 emergency program he : requested only two weeks ago. , "The most incredible events of the past two weeks in the Euro- i pean conflict, particularly as a1 result of the use of aviation and mechanized equipment, together with the possible consequencas of further developments,, necessitate another enlargement of our military mili-tary program," the President said. "The - one most obvious lesson,. of the present war in Europe Is the value of the factor of speed. There is definite danger in wait ing' to .order' the complete equipping equip-ping and training of armies after war begins. 'Therefore I suggest the speedy enlargement of the program for equipping and" training in the light of our-defense needs." War Problems this telephoto from Washington, Ta1rtH T3itr-f TTHu7arrl T7 CtAftlnlUei Midway Man Killed InV Park Mine KEETLEY,, Utah, May 31 (U.R) R. Arthur. Wilson, 44, brother 61 David JJ: Wilson; state Bepublican chairman at ' Ogden," and Mrs. Wayne B.' Hales of Provo, was killed, kill-ed, yesterday when a block ofwood crashed down a shaft at the Park City, Utah Mines company.- ': According to company officials, Wilson had been operating a. donkey don-key hoist. He leaned over -the shaft railing, and a worker three hundred feet above accidently knocked the block into the shaft. It struck Wilson - on the head, crushing his skull. . In addition to his brother and sister already mentioned, Mr. Wilson Wil-son is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eva Huber Wilson; four sons, Paul, David, Harold' and .Alan Wilson, all of Midway; two daughters. Ruth and Helen Wilson of, Midway; Mid-way; his father, residing in Midway, Mid-way, and sisters, .Mrs. William Young of, Heber, and Mrs. Grant Y. Anderson of Pleasant Grove. Funeral services will be con ducted Sunday at 2 p.- m. in the Midway Second L. D. S. ward chapel. Burial will be in Midway cemetery. Friends may call Friday at Ol-pin Ol-pin mortuary in Heber and Saturday Satur-day evening and Sunday prior to services, at the family home. Germans Fail To Trap Allies Near Dunkirk ' : . By J. W. T. MASON ' United Press War Expert The success of the retreat of the Allied forces from Flanders Flan-ders is reaching proportions that show the great power of naval co-operation in coastal defense has not been destroyed by attacking planes. Operations of the Anglo-French war- : : ; ; ships off Dunkirk and eastward Uineyard Honts Sidewalk Projest That a sidewalk project now being considered for- the Lake View district be extended to include in-clude 1 Vineyard, was asked of the Utah county commission Friday by a delegation composed of Arvii u. Stone, L. H. Young, H. LeRoy Gammon and James Blake Commissioner R. J. Murdock said the county is in sympathy with the project and will take action ac-tion towards launching construction construc-tion as soon as aid from the state road commission can be obtained. The county commissioners told the delegation they recognize the importance of a sidewalk along the Lake View-Vineyard state road as a safety measure. Walking Walk-ing on the highway, as many residents resi-dents do, is very dangerous in view of the heavy traffic, it was agreed. FEVER VICTI3I DIES TWIN FALLS, Idaho, May 31 U.E First spotted fever victim in this area for-1940, Joe Taylor, 51, Rock Creeks died .today in Twin Falls county general hospital. UDE Port of -.Dinildri: Germans Prepare To Strike At London Or Paris To Follow Up Victory in Flanders; French Stage Counter-Attack ' " ; By JOB ALEX BIORRIS Unltea Press Foreign New Editor French forces stabbed into the German flank along the English channel today, as Adolf Hitler's armies battled the stubbornly resisting remnants of Allied troops in Fiander3 and prepared to strike at London or Paris. - The AbDeville region, along the mouth of the river Som-me Som-me at the channel coast, was retaken by the FVench. accord-ing accord-ing to an official analysist in Paris, who said the Germans suffered heavy losses. - " -An entire Nazi mechanized S-1 : column and 200 prisoners were re- I ported taken in what may b Generalissimo Maxime Weygand's first important counter - thrust. possibly designed to open a path toward Boulogne and Calais. Details, De-tails, however, were lacking. . Half Returned Home . 'i On the northern coast, centering around Dunkiik, an estimated 200,000 British and French continued con-tinued to- fight strongly against perhaps 600,000 Germans who have already won the battle of Flanders. . . British sources estmated about half the B. E. F. which' was believed be-lieved to total at least 300.000 men, had been evacuated from northern France, and other thousands thous-ands were still arriving. If these figures are confirmed, it will be a tremendous achievement in the face of Nazi air and land bombardment. bom-bardment. Berlin dispatches said fog over , the channel was aiding the evacuation by halting activities activi-ties "of tha-HTr-fleet.' - -- The Allied troops were reported "fighting like cats" to hold the Germans at a line less than ten miles from Dunkirk until the evacuation La completed. The Paris spokesman estimated two divisions (originally around 30,000 men) of the first French army under Gen,. Rene Prioux (re ported captured Dy me uermana j had fought their way through the German lines to the coast, but the Nazi high command claimed the "great mass" of ' the French forces in the north Kad been anni hllated or captured. North Troops Released This triumph, the German com' mand said, released the Nazi forces in the north for other duties against England or the French capital although it was admitted fighting was still in progress at scattered points and before Dun kirk, the main center for e vacua tion of Allied troops. - -In the Dunkirk sector, the Al lies were fighting in the coastal ana hills. With their lives and tKeir last (Continued on Page Three) , are being brilliantly directed. The supplementary protection afforded them by the Allied counter-offensive in the air . has slowed down German attempts to surround the remnant British and French divisions divis-ions to a point where it has been impossible for Hitler to spring his trap. Defensive Strategy The success of the Allied retreat across the channel In the fsce of a German aviation blitzkrieg marks an important advance in defensive strategy. The Allied warships have had to' move slowly up and down the French and Belgian coastal waters, and even to come to rest at times in order to make their gunfire effective. Thus, they have offered themselves as ideal tarerets for the German airmen. Yet, the Germans have not been able to interrupt the evacuation of the retiring troops in any major manner, nor have the Allies suffered suf-fered serious losses in ships. The escape of thousands of troops from Dunkirk is well compared by the British to the famous retreat to Corunna by a British army during Great Britain's operations against Napoleon, in Spain. . Important Factor The Dunkirk retirement, in fact, (Continued on Par Three). es Suniyor Bring Tales of EZcrofs Tlllied Fighiing Bjr F. IL FISIIEJt AT A SOUTHEAST ENGLISH PORT, May 31 UE)Half th British expeditionary force was reported re-ported landed back in England today to-day and new thousands of British, French and Belgian troops'are ar" riving corjstantJy. f .' - ' ' The survivors broujr fc t " wi th them stories of heroic fighting ty the Allied troops and huge casualties casual-ties suffered by the Germans. The exact number of survivcrs ?andei at southeastern ports w.- not r- vejjcarar.. wrrizznx ct-l.... u " of al Itypes are coriStajiLIy br:.-.,:-ing- in more troops and shutMin back to the Flajnders coait for r.er loa&3. - " . (Tha B. E. F. original strength, was estimated at' 300.000 to 3&0.-000 3&0.-000 men.) One artilleryman to'.d of a terrific ter-rific barrage laid down by the British before Ypres which took a huge toll of the advancing Germans. Ger-mans. .... ' Thts artilleryman said: . '"I was fighting in Tpra up to four days ago. PreviouiCy ire had put over a terrific barrage fcr -3 hours.- I heard there wa a request re-quest from the Germans Uat thy be given a little time to bury the:r dead. ' V'e answered with another six houra barrage ever mora wtrs than the orimal one. It tm to me Hi tier is de&erate his lor..- have befcji enormous." It was said authoritative!' tht German spies and fifth co!urn.:i5t.H had been active throurhout tha Allied retirement. The place was riddled with spies," one source said. He d-cribed d-cribed how a man in a British cf. fleer's uniform' approached a Brit ish commander and told him to take his men to a certain point for em oar Ration. The commander started to comply but enroute met a naval officer who said no such plan had been arrarged. Later it was Iearnr.d the supposed embarkation embark-ation point toad been severe tw bombed by the Germans. Another artilleryman said: Ve haven't .siert for rim Most of ua pent the last lr j.- nights lying tn the sar.d dunes and Domoea almost all the tim. a. I was awaiting to board ship today men ciose to me were killed by shrapnel from long rarf Ger man guns." AUNT HET By Robert Qrinsn . "It dnn't make any difference dif-ference how smart a woman or how awful she look, the still believe a man whea h tell her is beaotifol.' |