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Show -- rPart?v Hie Herald"Journal cloudy m the with showers tonight. Thurs-'ij- clear"st portion. ttortioB - 'raii. tonight; UTAH, WEDNESDAY, LOGAN, OCTOBER 2 0, 19 Grain Range Wheat: Pec. May Open High Low Close 1.14r 1.14"i 1.13 .. 1.18l July ..MU 4 1. MS)" 1.21 1.174; l.lfPj l.SOn; Price Five Cents. Coal Mine Workers Strike; Imperil Steel Industry Logan Candidates Prepared For Forum Program Tonight e Motj E uqit P M 054 Probably creating as much interest as any other feature of the 1941 municipal campaign is the Logan Forum program, which this evening will present tho four candidates in a discussion of their political views and 'municipal OFFICIALS Wilford D. Porter Is Qioscn To Lead aims. The public is invited, free of which charge, to .the Forum, Wood-rumeets at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. Short addresses are to be given bv Mayor VV'illium Evans Jr. and fl Kiwanians Porter, professor of journalism at Utah State Agricultural college, today was chosen president of Logan Kiwams club at their annual election meeting Wilford cnibi O ? Other Officer ?.? ait ... New first vice president is Harold S. Carter, professor of civil engineering at the college, and see ond vice president is Charles O. Dunn of Utah Mortgage Loan corporation. Joseph Meyrick, employe of the Utah Idaho Central railroad company was reelected to his fourth terra as Kiwanis secretary-treasure- o (NEA Telephoto) S. Coal and Coke Co., mine near to worn, inese miners ime up pujr a- coal work stoppage at Captive in a nation-wid- e tji a3 17,000 went on strike there L. Lewis, head of out called John were Some miners 53,000 by steei industry. serve the of the United Mins Workers Union. i' of going r.eTthat n-- c r. termountain mnsic Meet if This Week i innkoi d raid MV iataii aciKB, toeafr Boit coatee f ft from egations eight confirmed colleges have iorjn onpj iTUlbba inter-lai- n attend 1941 to Mountain the Rocky ip Ge league Thursday, Friday Atoday on ihe campus of State Agricultural college, intention of sur Evan B. Murray, USaC and 1941 host pres-o- f the league, announced coach e lay. ;ht delegates Strike Situation Grows More Critical In U. S. Two Michigan Defense Units Close; Lewis Meets With Taylor Directors who were elected are Ralph N. Barlow, Clarence England and George W. Herrod. President Lindquist took charge of the program today which featured, besides elections, an ad dress by Walter A. Lacey, professor of at the colDr. lege. Professor Lacey discussed the of aviation during the past 30 years, comparing early aircraft and their efficiency to the modern planes. In making between early and comparisons modern craft, he pointed that four to six pounds comprised the maxi- -' mum lift of the plane wing; at the time of the World War, it was increased to 10 pounds, and today the lift is greater than ever. Speeds Compared Speed of the Wright Brothers plane was 12 miles per hour, he pointed out, while the new Lock 8 heed recently attained speed of 475 miles per hour on three-fourtof its horsepower In flving from Burbank, Calif., to Welders' Leader development WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U.Rt Almost four hours after it started, the conference between John L. Lewis, CTO leader, and Myron C. Taylor of the steel Industry, was still in progress this afternoon. Lewis and Taylor ordered luncheon to he brought tip to the conference room in Taylors suite on the ninth floor of the Mayflower hotel. from each of the holding membership league will convene Thurs-nonun- g in a general assem-penrn- g Strikes halted production on the conference, which machine guns and on first in history of the league shipbuilding orders for the m the USAC campus. Schools sented at the meet will be navy at two Michigan plants today. Conference Held irsity of Denver, University While attention centered on totorado, Colorado State of Utah, Brigham day's conference at Washington g university, Montana State between John L. Lewis, president of (CIO) e, University of Wyoming the United Mine Workers chairand Myron C. Taylor, former 'SAC. a coal miners' ursday afternoon activities man of U. S. Steel, onsteel productle centered around commit-leeting- s strike threatening while Friday and ion, the strikes in other areas were increasingly affecting manufacture day sessions will be devoted r.eral legislative assemblies at of the tools of war. Wheel comThe Kelsey-Hayc- s resolutions formulated by Mich., plant stop::ttees on assigned topics will panys Plymouth, machine ped turning out insidered. I'ients on the host who guns when 1,450 United Automobile squad went on strike for :d witn preparations and par- Workers (CIO)and discontinuance of s in the convention are: higher wages (Continued On Page 4) Clay, student debate man-Gle- n Fuller, Lane Palmer, Olsen, Betty Lou Balch, schools Evan Fonnesbeck, Tanner, all partici-i- n Marjorie the legislative Corbridge, sessions; extempore speak-Mar- k oratory, and Bezzant, Bethers after-dinn- :VrV Iverson Draftee At Dance tiring Ralph Roberts Pearce, tic will be held Friday eve-(:- n ttle hw recreation hall at was announced today. d' Pearce, a son of Mr. and J1 FOR HYRUM MEN speak- - To Honor adise Pearce, will leave on for selective o. S. army. dance is free to service the public. A testimonial program for Carl Maughan and Wayne Andersen, Hyrum youths who have been called for military service, will be held Sunday. November 2, in the Hyrum Third ward chapel. testiIn connection with the monial, a musical program will be presented by a group from Ogden under sponsorship of Miss Walborg Petersen, former Hyrum woman. the Miss Petersen is presenting program, which commences at 7:30 p. m., in celebration of her seventieth birthday. She is a former music supervisor of Cache county schools. The public is invited to attend. IhgeAnnouncesSelection Of Cast For Initial Plat at Utah State Cp5 was officially laeS(lay with announce- Ladlea of lurv"aS,Jng ,or ctcd Profes-y- a T Morgan. hy It will be fur Plays to be pre-- f, th..)s T,r undcr auspices of Sutle h &ui! be Tralf.r .organization rf rfa ed by fw ilurv" staged November 24 Professor Morgan in in 'Ladies of comedy written by Bctty Hatch J"yre Tft'ior of tUho Fails' nau' T' Hmpr ,Idnh: Everett and nBo'Vd Euhriman of Cv ' Wer,e nSi L)ltyr Lakentf sPrin'a l;'nrs.g' Lou Ualch ,Anderson of of "ioifred Kennard LU Eameron of Y0', Jack Horton IW,."0"ChnstiaWn,' fCeh? and - Georg e West P-3- New York. of Logan. Meawhiie, Dr. Chester J. Myers head of the USAC speech department announced that comedy will predominate in Little Theater plays throughout the year. Following ::Ladies of the Jury November 24 to 29, another comedy, Her Husband's Wife, will be staged December 8 to 13. Written by A. E. Thomas it will be directed by Professor Myers. Somerset Maugham's famous The Breadwinner," also a comedy, will be presented February 23 to 28 under direction of Mrs. Ruth Moench Bell, with Blind drama Alley," a psychononalysis by James Warnick, slated for March 23 to 28 under the direction of Dr. Halbert Greaves. Called bv Charles Collins in the the brightest Chicago tribune comedv yet written about a murder trial." Ladies of the Jury" will be carefuly prepared In nightly rehearsals until time of presentation, professor Morgan said. Education For Emergency Is Meeting Topic Education DurA symposium. ing This Emergency Period, led by Dr. E. A. Jacobson, detin of edu- cation at Utah State Agricultural college, will be featured in the of the Logan Senopening meeting Parent-TeachAsior high school sociation, Thursday evening, October 30, at 7:30 p. m. in Nibley Hall, according to Mrs. S. R. Stork, president. Other members of the panel are Superintendent E. Allen Bateman, Elizabeth Burgess, Prof. Paul M. Dunn, and H. J. Hatch. Musical numbers will be sung by the high school a capella choir, under the direction of Frank Baugh Jr. The program will be followed by an informal reception in the library, where parents and teachers will have the opportunity to meet and become better acquainted. Refreshments will be served under the dirction of the hospitality committee, which includes Mrs. V. D. Gardner, Mrs. J. C. Hayward, and i&td' Priscilla Rowland, and home room mothers. Home room officers are issuing personal invitations to all. Officers of the organization include: president, Mrs. S. R. Stock; vice presidents, Mrs. W. W. Richards and George S. Bates; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Berntson; program chairman, Mrs. Clark E. Haskins; membership chairmen, Mrs. W. R. Tolman and Mrs. Henry Lundahl; publicity, Miss Pearl Spencer. Publication. Mrs. H. J. Hatch; In a recent dive, a plane reach 700 miles a ed speed of pere hour, hospitality committee, Mrs. V. D. and engineers now contemplate Gardner, Mrs. J. C. Hayward, and Miss Priscilla Rowland; historian, ton speed of 1000 m. p. h. Mrs. C. J. Myers; student aid, Mrs. The cruising radius of B 9 Is 7500 miles," Professor Lacev Myron Carlisle; room represents stated. At P time of the World tives, Mrs. S. M. Budge; study WTar, there were 10 instruments group, Mrs. Effie Brown; safety, for a pilot to study in flying Mrs. C. D. McBride and P. A. C. a plane. Now in the larger type Pedersen; lunch, Mrs. P. A. C. planes, there are from 75 to 210 Pedersen and Miss Rowland. instruments. B-1- SUPPORTS MERGER Dave Basor. above. Is directing walkout of welders in shipyards In the Seattle area as a protest against refusal of the AFL convention to grant welders a hearing on their petition to form an independent international union. The strike spread to Los Angeles and threatens other Pacific Coast shipyards. present emergency. The governor Is chairman of the council, under the law passed by the 1941 legislature. Appointed members Include: Gua P. Backman, Salt Lake City chamber of commerce secretary; Selvoy J. Boyer, Springville, secretary of the Farm Bureau federation; StanBtate ley Duffin, Salt Lake City, Glass-mapresident of the CIO; R. C. Ogden, department commander of the American Legion; S. T. of Jeppesen, Ogden, the First Security bank; Mrs. Maud N Leaver, Salt Lake City, chairman of the Utah Federation of women's clubs defense committee; and Joseph I. Nichols, Salt Lake of the State City, Federation of Labor (AFL), n, nt ARRESTED Oct. 29 (t.R) WASHINGTON, William M. Etzel. an employe of the Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, has been arrested by agents of sabotage directed against bombers, the justice department announced today. the Oct. 29 In Canyon Tonight Airport Plans Are Progressing Logan-Cach- e Expect to Begin Construction On New Project Near November 15 OCTOBER RAINFALL EXCEEDS NORMAL Assurance has been received by the Logan city officials that bids for the construction of the new Logan-Cach- e airport will be called for about November 5. The assurance was given by Captain Thomas H. Messer of Hill Field at Ogden. The bids will be opened in' the general office of the army construction division in Los Angeles about November 15. Actual construction work on the tield should copimence shortly afterwards, city officials believe. Resident engineer of the construction work will be C. W. Schuler, who with six other en. move to Logan shortly gineers and remain here during the construction period. Promise has also been received from the state road commission that the needed highway to connect with the airport will be constructed at once. Tbe present Benson irrigation canal will be filled and a new canal constructed farther away from the airport. Those assisting in arranging these important matters with the national and atate officials were William Worley and H. Ray Pond of the county commission, George B. Bowen ot the city commission, City Attorney M. C. Harris, Dean George D. Clyde of the airport committee, and Secretary M. R. Hovey of the Logan chamber of As a cold block of air moved across Utah from the Pacific coast today, the local weather bureau reported that during the past two days a total of .28 of an inch rainfall has been recorded. With predictions that freezing temperatures will prevail during the next night or so, there were hopes that the storms had spent themselves. The cold, wet weather is working hardships on farmers who have not completed harvesting of sugar beets and potatoes. October leaves with a record of 2.75 Inches of precipitation, as against a monthly normal of 1.56. Thus, the 1941 mark for the entire year is considerably boosted. REGIONAL WELFARE MEET IS THURSDAY L D S welfare workers of the seven Cache valley stakes will assemble in a fall conference at the Logan tabernacle Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, according to president Edwin Clawson of Hyrum stake, chairman of the regional meeting. Representatives from the general welfare committee will be present to give vital instructions on stake and ward projects for the winter. Elder Harold B. Lee and Marion G. Romney, assistant managing director, are expected to attend. Those who are asked to attend the welfare meeting are stake presidencies, president of Melchizedek pristhood quorums, chairmen of stake welfare committees, bishoprics, Relief Society presidencies, regional coordinators, storekeepers, stake and ward work directors, project committeemen, adult Aaronic priesthood supervisors, and all agricultural committee members. Stakes included in the meeting are Cache, Logan, Hyrum, Benson, Smithtield, Oneida and Franklin. commerce. Contractors interested in bidding or, the airport construction are invited to secure copiea of the plans and specifications at Hill Field. Knox Contemplates New Naval Policy WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U.D Secretary of the Navy Frank Kr.ox said today the U. S. navy may follow the policy of tbe British and not announce sinkings of any German submarines that are destroyed by U. S. forces. One objective of such secrecy would be to damage morale of tho German navy in keeping it guessing as to just what happened to Poor Weather Fails To Stop Hitler Advance BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor German forces reported today their way they have through defenses of the Crimea and are driving their lines closer to Rostov, while the Moscow front erupted, despite bad weather, with fresh attacks by the Germans and sharp soviet counterattacks. blasted Furious Attach The entire Russian front was in action from Leningrad, where soviet sorties were reported to have recaptured four villages, to Crimea and to the Kerch narrows which were under nazl air attack and Rostov at the head of the Caucasus approaches where German troops were said to be within 10 or 15 miles of the city and attacking furiously. Soviet reports indicated sharp counter attacks have been launched in the Moscow sector, particularly at Maloyaroslavets and Mozhaisk while the Germans were giving renewed attur.tion to their salients north and south of the capital. German reports said despite weather which has made all movement of supplies and heavy equipment difficult they are increaaing their pressure around Kalinin and in the direction of Tula, 100 miles south of Moscow. Objective Still Moscow The nazi commentators indicated the German high command stIH hopes to encircle Moscow with a view of attempting to take the city from the rear. The report that German forcea only now are approaching sharply with a nazl (Continued on Page Four) i British Air Attacks Reported Effective BY UNITED PRESS Royal air force attacks have compelled the Germans to evacuof Le ate civilian populations Havre, Brest, Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk, and have crippled or halted production in several blocks of big north France factories working on German war orders. This information, received by the United Press today in private advices from reliable sources on the European continent, said the Germans were encountering increasing difficulties in maintaining production in the northern France Industries. More and more severe British air non-Briti- attacks have caused hundreds ot Workmen to quit their jobs, particularly in exposed factories which are attacked several times each Resident Appeals submarines that failed to return. Knox told conference the press Civilized Aims week. navy would be guided "as any other The loss of production was rein whether belligerent" determining ported handicapping the Germans to announce sinkings. He seriously because most of the inmade the observation when quesdustrial facilities of northern PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29 (U.P.) tioned by reporters about rumors President Roosevelt asked for a France have been to prothat submarines already have been mighty effort to repel the wave duce for the Germangeared armed forces. sunk in the north Atlantic by the of degenerate barbarity which has was It British air attacks, said, U. S. navy. temporarily engulfed so many have reached their greatest efsent a in industriLille the in fectiveness message countries," today big to the convention of Hadassah, al sector where bulk of French texGet Call women's Zionist organization of tile production as well as coal mines and heavy industrial plants America. The dark aspect of world affairs are centered. On U. S. Munitions at the present time requires that all of the forces of humanity and NEGROES BURNED social progress reconsecrate themOfficials MONTCLAIR, N. J. (U.P Oct. 29 selves in a mighty effort to repel and relatives attempted today to WASHINGTON, Soviet Russia has first call today the wave of degenerate barbarity identify remains of 12 negroes, 10 on munitions planes, tanks and which has temporarily engulfed so of them children, who died when guns which were ordered origin- many countries," Mr. Roosevelt the - story frame house in which wrote to Mrs. David De Sola Pool, they lived with 11 others burned ally for the U. S. army. last night. The array will have to relinquish Hadassah's national president. claims for prior delivery on much no be will so that there equipment delay in carrying forward the program, authoritative sources said. Some officials believed that so far as aircraft is concerned, that procedure may delay equipment for the groups which it is proposed to set up in the array WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (U.R Cormack, that the accused man Is it Orman air forces. However, they said of William Ewing, 53, former a property owner and has raised would NOT hamper the training Democratic national committee- a family here, and ruled the deman of Utah, was held without fendant he held on a formal charge personnel. bond in district jail today for of rape. District of Columbia law grand jury action on a charge he calls for the death sentence upon ravished a government conviction of rape. Miss Cranfield testified she had worker. Festiva The d lawyer and been living in a boarding house, rooming house owner, father of owned by Ewing and operated by woman friend of her to a long-tim- e The two Providence wards will five children, pleaded innocent his Members of family, since she came here from combine their efforts Thursday eve- the accusation. It is a case of Provo Oct. 12. Last Sunday mornning to present a super" Hal family charge ing. she said, she came home from loween festival in the city gym "blackmail. was denied bond by Po- a date at about 1 a. m. Ewing and nasium, it was announced today by liceEwing Court Judge Walter J. Casey the woman were in the living George Anderson. hear- room. Festivities commence at 9 p. m. yesterday after a preliminary blonde had been drinking and and the MIA groups will be in ing during which the pretty Cran-fiel- d theEwing woman was "very drunk, she stenographer Betty Ruth charge. of Provo, Utah, who came said, adding they asked her to There will be dancing to the She to accept a defense join them but she declined. here a recently special Spencer orchestra music, chain lock on her the said she of s. her put told OPM with story and job spook alley, costumes door and went to bed. tbe alleged attack. and her actors Hollywood's Rosalind Russell now Mrs. Fred BrLsson Half an hour later, she con by protests to invited Mission is Santa at Casey Ignored The general public start tlulr honeymoon after marrying Me L. (Continued on Paga Four) Homer counsel, attend. Ewings Ynez, Solvang, Calif, For at SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 29 (l.R Gov. Herbert B. Maw today had in the membership completed state's defense council, naming seven Utah leaders to serve with him in preparing necessary measures for protection of civil and military tbe The Forum board of managers, consisting of Dr. B. L. Richards, Adrian Hatch, Elizabeth Burgess, George S. Bates, Ray Nelson, Mrs. V. W. R irds and Harold Fornoff, will i., et in the Woodruff school at 7:30 p. m. tonight prior to the public meetngs for the .purpose of selecting organization executives and discussing plans for tho next Forum program. commission post. As was the Forum policy last year, questions will be entertained from tho floor, although organization officers wilt reserve the right to limit the length of discussions. Since incumbents stand, in tho main, on administration policies of the past, it is probable that C Governor Completes Utah Defense Council resources during Jaycees Assemble r.D Federal security agency officials estimated today the proposed merMembers of the Logan junior ger of the National Youth Administration and the Civilian Con- chamber of commerce will meet servation Corps coupled with a this evening at 7:30 in ;he Amgreater demand for men in de- erican Legion canyon home for fense industries will cave the gov- thir October membership program. ernment $132,000,000 during the Included in the eveni'igs events remainder of the 1942 fiscal vear. will be fire prevention films shown President Roosevelt Indicated he by Fire Chief C. W. Rapp, otherwould send a message to con-- 1 moving pictures presented by Walconsolida-- 1 lace Kirkman, Dutch lunch and gress soon on NYA-CCentertainment. tion WASHINGTON, TESTIMONIAL SET Mayor Evans and Commissioner Muir will speak after their opponents. D. held in Hotel Eceles. Professor Porter succeeds G. A. Lindquist to the club presidency. ?& Pr. W. W. Merrill, candidates for the office of mayor by Commissioner Vern B. Muir and M. Carl Poulter, who are running for the Russ First :.!i 2- id Providence Wards Schedule Provo Girl Testifies Against! Former Utahn on Rape Charge' grey-haire- noise-maker- agent-husban- d, - - mmKtommmmm TF T ;; f i;:( I I |