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Show Finn Launch 4- - Herald Joumal WEATHER UTAH FORECASTS Fair tonight and Wed- in tempera- nesday, little change tUIDAHO Light showers tonight and Wednesday, slightly warmer southeast tonight. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, Number 37. Europe Masses 19000,000 Men Under Arms FRANCE GERMANY RUSSIA BALKANS BELGIUM 4,000.000 3.500,000 3,110,000 2,410,000 700,000 Grain Range 1940. Volume Counter-Atltac- k 31 Wheat: May July Sept. ITALY 96 .97 400,000 BRITAIN .96 .96 FINLAND 2,240,000 Open High Low Close 99 i 1.00 .98', .98 .97 i .971 .96 .96 1,000,000 Mourned HOUSE GETS Missionary r HOLLAND 400,000 SEA BATTLES Success For Finns Reported In Drive Finland, Feb. 13 war communique today said that Finns had successfulHELSINKI, A (U.Ri ly counter-attacke- d Russian units on the Karelian Isthmus after repulsing new red army smashes against the Mannerheim ' FUNOJILL CHALLENGE New Harold B. Lee Speaks Airplanes and Ships Are On At Cache G.O.P. Docket Banquet 'sfS'f WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 d'.Iti g The house today received a navy appropriation bill carrying $966,722,878. It included funds for 19 new fighting ships among them two 45,000-to- n and 352 airplanes. ALMA .1. BRFDERER The measure was reported to the house after Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, warned that a world conflagration is threatened by European dictator nations and conditions in the Far East. Despite the huge total of the bill $51,412,629 more than last the year's naval appropriation appropriations committee slashed $111,699,699 from President Roosevelts recommendati ons. This Farewel testimonial for Alma J. brought the current total of cuts under the budget to about Bruderer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Bruderer of Logan Twelfth Chief provisions of the bill: ward, will be held in the ward to 19 Funds start the warships, chapel Thursday evening at 7:30 the two including o'clock. The fund for the 45,000-to- n Elder Bruderer will report at to was cut from $1,500,000 the mission heme in Salt Lake ships a presidential recommendation of City February 26, and he will leave $7,800,000 on the ground that only thereafter for the North a little preliminary work could be shortly Central States mission. done during this year. The navy for The complete was instructed to attempt to build Thursday evening, program to which the which be would the general public is invited to attend, warships superior, rather than the equal, of is as follows: foreign song, congregation; Opening Funds for 353 airplanes,- - includ- prayer, W. F. Owen; accordion solo, ing 305 replacements. The navy had Ivan Pedersen ; reminiscences of an asked for 576 planes. The navy elder, J. A. solo, now has 2,428 planes in service or Jack Dunn; Meservy; trumpet on order. Address, W. W. Richards of the Authority for the navy to enter Logan L.D.S. piano solo, into $22,553,250 of contracts for Idell GranderInstitute; Larsen; remarks, ordnance other and puraircraft, Conrad Bruderer; vocal duet, poses, items to be paid for out of Blaine W i m o r e and Leonard future appropriations. This was a Bruderer; remarks, Bishop Parley $16,316,250 cut in the budget recomA. Hill; quartet, Fred Christianmendation. sen, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn C. Meservy conA $1,000,000 cash item to and Mrs. Parley A. Hill, accomimcontroversial harbor struct panied by Edna Wixom; island at Pacific Guam, provements and Response, Elder Bruderer, 1,500 miles from Japan. A limit of prayer, Robert Thalman. $3,000,000 was placed on the eventual total to be spent for Guam improvements. Congress last year refused to authorize such work on WOODRUFF the grounds that it might antagonize Japan. Funds to continue the navy at MEETING SLATED and 25,000 150,000 enlisted men record-breakin- ts Lord Tweedsmuir Viceroys Body Is Taken To Ottawa MONTREAL, Feb. 13 (U.I9 The body of the lata Lord Tweedsmuir, in a coffin mounted on a gun carriage drawn by 60 naval reservists, was carried through the streets of Montreal today and placed aboard a train for Ottawa. A military escort of 1,000 officers and men accompanied the Viceroy's body and thousands lined the streets to watch. d - - The coffin was placed in a special car for the journey to the capital, where it will lie in state. Tomorrow night the body will be returned to Montreal for cremation. The ashes will be accomto Scotland panied by Lady Tweedsmuir and John Buchan, tbeir youngest son, for burial. The governor general died Sunconcussion day night of a suffered in a fall at the governor's 100-mi- le bi-u- palace. LEADER OF TRUTH COLONY TESTIFIES SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 13 tUJt Describing their relationship as Mrs. Marie "purely metaphysical, M. Ogden, the "Sister Ogden of the Home of Truth colony in southern Utah, today denied she had given assistance to the silver shirt legion. In testimony before the Dies committee last week, William Dudley Pelley, silver shirt leader, listed Mrs. Ogden as a contributor. Pelley said she had given him bonds valued at $12,000. Sister Ogden, leader of the cult which attempts to bring the dead back to life in its San Juan county colony, said it was true that I gave him a little help, but it's not true that I have given any help to the silver shirts. Sister Ogden's cult received national attention when It was learned that the body of a woman member had been kept in the desert and preserved tor many months in the belief that it would be restored to life under Mrs. Ogdens guidance. 0. ' AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN marines. FRAZIER SERVICES SLATED THURSDAY Funeral services for Jackson R. Frazier, who died February 9, in Omaha, Nebraska, and who was husband of Kate Johnson, daughter of the late John A. Johnson of Logan Sixth ward, will be held in the Sixth ward chapel Thursday at 1 p. m., with burial in the kca! cemetery under the direction of A traffic accident which involved the wrecking of four automobiles failed to stop Ivan Phillips trip to the altar. He'll be married tomorrow in the Logan temple. Mr. Phillips, formerly of Smtih-fiel- d who now resides in Salt Lake City, was driving toward Logan last evening when at a point on the state highway near the Second ward chapel in Wells-villMrs. Oliver Bailey of Wells-vild attempted to make a turn in front of him. In an effort to avoid striking the Bailey machine, Phillips swerved his car to the side of the road, ramming a parked auto belonging to Max Baxter of Hyrum. That began a long string of collisions. The road surface was slippery, and the Baxter machine shot beforward, striking another carMen-dolonging to Hans Anderson of The Anderson car, in turn, hit one owned by Eldon Hall. Those bumps. were the most serious When the clanging and confusion damwere cars four had ceased, aged to an extent of about $250 each, while others showed effects le left-han- 'Copyright 1939 Publishers Syndicate) Current health problems will form the theme for the Woodruff school P.T.A. meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 oclock in the Dr. Wendell school auditorium. Budge will be the principal speaker. . According to Principal Rex M. Ingersoll, the address wilt be of practical interest to the general public, and an invitation for all to attend is extended. On the program also will be a short founders' day pageant, presented by sixth grade students, and some musical numbers. Third and fourth grade room mothers are furnishing birthday cakes for refreshment after the program. CHEERED Prime LONDON, Feb. Minister Neville Chamberlain was cheered in the house of commons today when he announced Sumner Welles, United States under secreinto tary of state, would be taken the full confidence of the British government when he visits here. 13 (UP) Despite The Accident, Hell Go To The Altar Tomorrow e, 'One woman who ain't sensitive about her age can rum all the others. She'll admit bein forty and then tell about the others bein m her grade at school." 1 1 P.T.A. Lindquist and Sons Mortuary. Friends may call at the Lindquist chapel this evening, Wednes-of day, and Thursday until time services. Mr. Frazier died of a heart attack while he was driving his automobile. He was a Union Pacific employe for some 35 years. SET are his wife, Kate Johnil'.ip Idaho Surviving a daughter, at Lewis- son Frazier, and CONVENTION Ida., Feb. 11 Republicans will gather ton on May 6 for their 1940 convention, Tom Heath, Preston, state chairman, announced today, BOISE, Logan Youth Receives Mission Call n. of minor bumps. Only two people suffered inMiss juries of any consequence. Veda Robinson, riding with Phillips, was treated for a knee injury and shock, while Max Baxter suffered bruises and minor cuts. Phillips escaped unhurt, as did Vada Robinson, another passenger. According to a report issued by State Patrolmen Roland Reese, T. Earl Hunsaker and Wellsville Marshal William Popplcton, Phillips was driving south, while Mrs. Bailey had pulled onto the state highway from the east. Seeing a vacant parking space across the highway, she swerved to the left and cut in front of Phillips, who avoided striking her car, and smashed into the parked machines. The accident happened at 9:30 p. m. while a dance was being held in the Second ward hall, Mr. Phillips was en route to Logan, where he was to arrange for his marriage to Virginia Gjettrup, Providence. Not to be stopped by the accident, the young couple took out a license from the Cache county clerks office today. Will the Messiah of the present generation be a member of the Republican party as was Lincoln, the Messiah of his generation? That is your challenge? Will you accept it?" With this ringing challenge Harold B. Lee, director of the L. D. S. church welfare program, ended his Lincoln day address at the Bluebird sponsored by the Cache county Republicans Monday evening. Short Speeches About 200 residents of Cache county attended the Lincoln Day program presided over by County Chairman Vance D. Walker. Short impromptu addresses were made by Judge M. C. Harris and Hersehel Bullen, both of whom of the urged the Republicans county to get organized properly and to prepare for the coming election in the fall. Mr. Lee, who is a native of Oxford, north of Preston, and a former student of the Oneida stake academy in Preston, is well known in political and religious circles in Utah. After fulfilling (Continued on Page Four) line. Europe is mobilized today at nearly five times her normal peacetime strength with 19,000,000 men under arms. Not shown in pictograph are figures for Spain and Portugal, 400,000; three Scandinavian Turkey, nations, 200,000; and three Baltic states, 70,000. Balkan figure includes Rumania.U.800,000; S. has 188.000. 510,000; Yugoslavia, 400,000; Hungary, 400,000; Bulgaria, 160,000; Greece, 140,000. RUSSIANS CLAIM Roosevelt Is Object Of LINK CRACKED FINLAND Bitter Attack TRADE T PACT UNDER STUDY traditions. Party oratory echoed from coast to coast last night at 700 Lincoln day gatherings preliminary to Fridays meeting of the Republican National committee at which the place and date of the party's nominating convention will be fixed. The attack was direct and bitter against Mr. Roosevelt. In many instances it recalled the political atmosphere which developed during discussion of government and supreme court reorganization. cam-If these samples of Republican paigning are typical, the 1940 cam- dispaign will be a cussion of the new deal, regardless of the nominee. The challenge was to new deal adptinistrative methods and mo- rather than against the governmental structure as now set up. tives- POLICE SCHOOL Bill rman Getting record-breakin- Better In Mid-We- st Payrolls in the industrial cities the middle west are considerably stimujated at present by recent orders for millions of dollars worth of products, according to F. P. Champ, president of the Cache Valley Banking company and the Utah Mortgage Loan Corporation, who returned Monday night from a hurried trip to Chicago and Rockford, Illinois. Mr. Champ, who with 20 other American bankers Is a member of the board of directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, attended a meeting of that board in Chi Opposed cago and also a mortgage clinic ponsored by the association at hlch were present more than 200 To Law Enactment financiers from various parts of the United States. Mr. Champ said today that the WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 a7.E) business outlook at present is favit of State Cordell Hull, orable and that the political outSecretary was learned today, has notified the look is mixed. The political situasenate foreign relations committee tion, he said, will depend to a he is vigorously opposed to progreat extent on the war condiposals to invoke the neutrality act tions In Europe and what pari Russian-Finland in the and Japan-- the United States will play i.i conflicts. affair. Hulls opinion was sought on a that While in the midwest he was resolution introduced by Sen. Guy sentiment M. Gillette, D., Ia to make the elated to find that the the proposed there neutrality act effective against merger concerning of the forest service deJapan and China, and a similar partment with the department of proposal by Sen. John A .Danaher, the interior is meeting with the to Invoke the law R.,' Conn., opsame kind of enthusiastic against Russia and Finland. "Enactment of this law Is not in position as that proposal is greet-- i accord with the State Departments ed in the Rocky Mountains and program, Hull said in a letter to the west in general. Mr. Champ Committee Chairman Key Pittman, found a lot of activity in various D., Nev. He added his department sections of the midwest against is keeping in close touch with the the proposed transfer of control European situation, and he believes of the forest service and had the he can handle it without involving opportunity to do considerable the United States. work along that line. Hull Is China Sortovola of Convention In Logan Today Service station agents and operators from the Logan district, Utah Refining company, met in a at divisional convention today Logan, with Albert G. Olofson, general sales manager of the company, and! Jack Taylor Jr., division manager, in charge of an instructional and analytical program. Fifty-fiv- e men attended the meetings, representing stations southern from northern Utah, Idaho and southwestern Wyoming. The business of each station was analyzed, with each feature of under sales promotion coming close scrutiny. Methods of Increasing sales in various departments were considered. According to Mr. Olofson, the Logan division, managed during the past year by Mr. Taylor when the general sales managership was offered to Mr. Olofson, showed an increuse of business during 1939. Mr. Olofson left Logan in January of 1939 for his Salt Lake City position. I enjoy my new work exceedingly, . although I miss . my friends here, he declared this afternoon. He directs the entire Utah Oil sales organization, having jurisdiction over the 400 retail stations in Idaho and Utah, and the various agencies. According to records, the six divisions showed an increase of business under Mr. Olofson, while expenses related to maintenance decreased. Oil Leningrad Reds report penetration of Finn line, copture of steel forts U.S.S.R. Scale of Miles 50 25 First break in the Mannerheim Line and capture of several steel and concrete artillery forts was claimed by Russia as she hammered Finn defenses in the . greatest Soviet offensive of Finland denied reports of The-war- the break. ' BERLIN, Feb. i3 tU.Ei Diplomatic quarters sought today to learn the real scope of a new IS IN SESSION German-Russia- n trade agreement which, according to German estimates, will assure a turnover of With more than 40 peace officers marks more than 1,500,000,000 C$600,000,000) in its first year, a of Cache, Box Eider counties and Preston in attendance, the regionnew peak. Announcement last night that a al traffic safety school continued new agreement had been signed at today at Logan Junior high school, Moscow gave no details of the under the direction of Lt. B. C. Hi llis, state highway patrolman of exchanges to be- made. Nazi quarters, explaining the Ogden. lack of details, said that to give According to Jesse Thompson, the precise extent of the treaty vocational director of Logan city schools, the training school personmight be of help to enemy Hence it appeared that the nel includes marshals from every highway significance of the agreement town in Cache Valley, might be revealed only with the patrolmen, sheriffs and deputies, passage of time. So far as was police officers, mayors and attorknown, the only deliveries Russia neys. has made to Germany since last Monday the topic under discusAugust have been quantities, of sion was the motor vehicle code. which the extent is not known, of Today, physical laws and laws of evidence are under consideration, grain and i1L tomorrow. while Judge Lewis Jones, district judge, will discuss laws of arrest and bail. RECORD-BREAKING Two Testing the and Inertia, Drunker pictures, Driver," Shown will also be during the BACKED course of the school. NAVY Classes are held during the afternoon and evening in room 206 of the junior high. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 James G. Scrugham, D., Nev of the house navy appropri- Business ations subcommittee today called g on the house to approve a $966,772,878 navy appropriation and warned that "civilization itself may be at stake" in the European war. Scrugham declared the huge fund was necessary to protect America in a time of shifting foreign perils and noted that every great power in the world is now or has been at war in ,the past five years and "this year may see every power in Europe at war. As the house debate opened, President Roosevelt signed two bills providing $309,882,076 for the army and navy ami other defense purposes. forts seized in this area WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 UM9 The 1940 Republican campaign was keyed today to meet a third term n o m i n a t i o n if it comes with charges that the Roosevelt administration has failed and the new deal has undermined American bare-knuck- NAZI-SOVIE- Soviet eloims Utah Oil Holds Logan Lions Stage Fathers-Son- J. Meet s W. Kirkbride, . superintendent of Cache county schools and prominent youth leader of northern Utah, will be the principal speaker this evening when fathers and son3 of Logan LiOi club meet at the Bluebird. The event is the annual dads and sons banquet, and chairman of the program, is Harold C. Bateman, assisted by George Wilkinson and Lorin Crookston. Activates commence at 6 o'clock. to Club President According Lloyd Theurer, all members of the organization are invited to bring either a son or. daughter, or someone else's son or daughter. Superintendent Kirkbride will discuss problems of youth in todays world, and associate Lincoln as a champion of young people. & Artie Shaw Quits Band, Marries Lana Las VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 13 '.m Artie Shaw, famous swing band leader, and Lana Turner, film star, were married here today by Justice of Peace George Marshall. The couple eloped from Hollywood by airplane. Shaw recently gave up his orch a because I'm fed up with bring the leader of a jitterbug band. Before he retired he made a picture at studios with his orchestra. Miss Turner, also under contract at met him during that time, TAMMANY LEADER INDICTED BY JURY ten-ca- Yiipuri. Twenty-thre- e Russian tanks were destroyed in fightiiag yesterday, the communique said. BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor IniW Press counter-attack- s . Finnish against the biggest red army offensive of the war in the far north, coincided today with a renewal of the German struggle to break Great Britains domination of the seas. Vessels Sunk Six British and neutral vessels, one including presumably armed British trawler, were sunk by submines and shell fire in marines, the last 24 hours. Six German merchant ships were . reported in London newspapers to WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (EE) Two influential senators today expressed belief that Finland and other Scandinavian countries stand an excellent chance of blocking the Soviet invasion. Sen Arthur Capper, R Kan, a member of the Foreign relations committee, said he believed that neither Hitler's legions nor the Soviet army would emerge victorious in the European conflict. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D, Utah, also a committee member, said the Finns have "geography, brains and organization on their side; and that "they, have a good chance off the Russians. have put out from the Spanish port of Vigo in an effort to run the allied blockade with needed supplies and in the South Atlantic British warships were pursuing from fifo to nine other German vessels after having sunk one and possibly two. With the warfare at sea expect- ed to intensify this spring, there was little hope In the belligerent capitals for a successful peace move but British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain formally announced in the house of commons (Continued on Page Four) NEW YORK, Feb. 13 TH) Wil! liam Solomon, Tammany Hall dis- TECHNOCRACY trict leader and one of the organization's most powerful figures QUESTION since the decline of James J Hines, was Indicted today on seven coints of extortion, bribery and acceptance of unlawful fees. What is technocracy? What are The Indictment, returned by the advocates of technocracy offerthe New York county grand jury, ing the people of the United resulted from District Attorneys States ? Thomas E. Dewey's Investigation These are some of the questions into the award of state printing that will be answered at the Open contracts to the Burland Printing Forum Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in company. the Woodruff school auditorium Also named in the indictment when D. A. Wootton of Salt Lake was Charles H. Mullens, assistant City, an authorized representative comptroller of the state of New of Technocracy, Inc, will give an York. Mullens was offered and re- address on, what he calls, The jected the Republican nomination American Dilemma." for comptroller In 1938. The Open F'oram is open to all The indictment contained one residents of Cache Valley for incount of extortion, three of bri- struction in matters of immediate bery and three of accepting un- public interest. It is an educationlawful fees. In each of the counts al organization and does not take Solomon was charged with aiding any stand whatsoever on any question. and abetting Mullens. Mr. Wootton comes to Logan Thursday highly recommended by NEW NOMINATION his organization as an expounder WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ll.lt President Roosevelt today nomin- of the principles of the organizaated Col. Philip B. Fleming, tion. Following his address questions trouble-shootof the army en- will be permitted to be extended to him. gineering corps, to take full rank Since this is the first public as administrator of the wage-hou- r meeting held in Logan on the subadministration. ject of technocracy, it is hoped that a large attendance will grace IS FORUM er Potato Exhibit Train To Be At Smithfield Monday r A special potato exhibit train will be at Smithfield on February 19,. from 9 to 11:30 a. m. The Union Pacific railroad is cooperating with Cache county potato growers and the Extension Service and Experiment Station in exhibit making this worthwhile available to farmers In the county. The first car is a modem refrigerator car which contains exhibits on federal-stat- e inspector grades of potatoes, types of sacks, cartons, bags, and boxes, and how to load and store potatoes on cars, how the modem refrigerator cars are constructed, cooled, heated, and on the Fighting continued Karelian Isthmus front, the communique said. The red army has been pounding at Finnish defense es there for 12 days in what to he a mighty offensive designed to break through to the meeting. MOTORISTS URGED TO SECURE PLATES ed to growing potatoes, and irrigation are in the third and fourth cars, while in the fifth, sixth, and Utah automobile license plates seventh coaches short informative expire February 29, while 1939 Indiscussions will be given and pic- come tax returns are due March tures projected. The eighth car contains Union Pacific exhibits on the use of potatoes in modem menus prepared and proved in the Union Pacific test kitchen and by home economics departments of agricultural colleges. It will also show industrial uses of potatoes, such as starch, plastic, alcohol, flour, and leucite 15. That fact was called to the attention of Cache county motorists today by local Manager Thomas F. Green as he reported thRt thousands of local residents have not as yet secured their 1940 license tags. Unless more motorists call for. their registration plates within the products. next two weeks, there will be a This la one of the finest exhibits tremendous rush the Inst ventilated. on potatoes and every potato grow- four or five days,during declared Mr. The second car, consisting of er and all farmers and housewives Green. "It will be easier and simplUnion Pacific and commercial ex- in the communities adjoining er to secure the plates before hibits, demonstrates hazards of po- Smithfield and in the county should the rush begins. tato growing, kind of insecticides, avail themselves of this opportunAll people drawing a salary of fertilizers, good market practice, ity. County Agent R. L. Wrigley more than $600 are required to terminal market and market infor- says, It is a real educational feast file income tax returns. mation. and we cannot call your attention The annual Information returns Exhibits on certified seed, varie- to lt too strongly because we would of business men Is due at the tax our like Cache county people to office by February 15, Mr, Green ties, crop rotation, fertilizers, potato diseases and insects, soils adapt take advantage of it. added, last-minu- te , . |