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Show 71 12 TSczthcr UTAH: Fair tonight and- Wednesday, Wednes-day, little change ia temperature. Maximum temp, Monday ... 3 Minimum temp., Monday . . . : 18 FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 105 Arizona Trail . - i . 'jit Winnie Ruth Judd's second escape from the Arizona hospital for the insane within six weeks time stirred a new furor in the southwest, and trail dogs are being used in - the ; search.' The killer of two women voluntarily surrendered during her previous escape. (Acme Telephoto). ' v J5) GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going: On in National . Affairi Ey- DREW PEAIiSON mad HO BEET; 3i ATJ.EN GOP Has Brain Trust Trouble As Liberals, Tories Split "Ori Program; Glenn Frank Committee Started by Hoover Hoo-ver in 1938. Kept Under Cover; Tories Balked At Progressive Ideas, Landon-.ites Landon-.ites At Wrong Strategy; ' Called Up Again in Conser- sative .Maneuver To Write Party's Planks. . . ' - "WASHINGTON Probably no single phase of the Roosevelt administration ad-ministration .has been under more fire than" the Brain Trust, but it now develops that the ' Republi-. Republi-. cans also are having "Brain Trust problems. For as the Republican executive committee converged on Washington thl3 week, it was the program committee, frequently called the GOP Brain Trust, which caused "the Grand Old Party-all sorts of secret headaches. In fact, the program committee, plus the question of holding, the national convention. before or after the Democratic convention,- were the two chief problems on the confidential Republican agenda., ,Tbe dilemma over the national convention date has been given more' publicity than was welcome, - by a well-known spokesman at Warm' Springs. But the storm .'-over the program committee so far 'has been kept under cover. Yet the problem goes to the roots of the . Republican party and involves in-volves the vital issue of conservatism conserva-tism and progresslvism. plus prac- tical old-fashioned politics. . n On the conservative side are the Hoover forces plu3 John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national na-tional committee. On the progressive progres-sive side are Alf Landon, Colonel Frank Knox, and veteran Republican Republi-can 4 leaders in -congress. Their enmity parallels that between the Garner- and , Roosevelt wing3 of the Democratic party. , BIRTH OF A COM3ITTTEE " . Actually the program committee commit-tee Is the brain-child of Herbert Hoover, though probably he never dreamed his child would grow the way it did. It was he who first proposed that the Republicans hold a' mid-term convention to formu-. formu-. late a 1033 Republican platform- This, was prior to the mid-term congressional elections of 1933, and the proposal brought immediate immedi-ate protests from the Landon group,- which pointed to the fallacy of erecting a target for the "(Continued on Page Two) Tliis lay m BORN Boy, to Golden and Pearl Gled-hill Gled-hill Lofgren, Monday, Utah Valley Val-ley "hospital. Boy, to Bert and Kiva Peay Cooper.- former" Provoans, Monday, Mon-day, Murray hospital. UTAH'S EOUTU Dogs SeekTrace of . 1!! i 1 Vi. ft. t fid fit Hunted- acal'Mu rdetess PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec 5 U.R)-The hunt for the maniacal murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd, gained impetus today when a suburban resident hysterically! reported to the sheriff's office that she awoke to see Winnie, staring at her through a window. win-dow. .-- : l - r The woman, too excited to give her name but who gave officers art" "address not "f ar from "where yesterday-Winnie Ruth apparently stole asiab-of pie, said the tiger murderess - fled - after - leering through the window. quad cars immediately went to the neighborhood and " began a systematic: search.. . The .home where' .'Winnie': .Ruth - supposedly made her. 'most recent appearance is about two' miles from the. state asyliim he, fled Sunday night. ; -. It'ia in. the district that was the crazed 'killer's "hide-ut" during her, first 'six-day escape . in Oc-' tober.Vv"-l r Z '. ,' ..'-' . ";" . Fear .was heightened among residents after hospital attendants said . they, believed -Mrs. Judd carried a razor, with her when she eseaped.-"'; ;..'" .; ; .:'J; ' : Citizens had : slept ' little behind locked doors. Winnie Ruth, at large for a second time in six weeks, was believed roaming a hop ahead of ; bloodhounds; hungry and subject to reocurring "spells" of homicidal impulses, somewhere In or near the city.. Hounds from the 'state prison at Florence had followed her trail at one . time late yesterday'to , a street corner within five blocks of the main Phoenix business district. Last' night . they ran "baying through back alleys and over vacant va-cant lots in residential districts. . Hospital officials , believed the "tiger woman" "had taken the razor, missed only last night from the prison barber shop, where she often worked, to frighten , householders house-holders whom she might be obliged to rob, rather than as a weapon to commit suicide or to murder. -But, this belief did not comfort citizens. , - STOCKS NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UJPJ Stocks made up yesterday's small losses in a slightly more active session tdoay. ' The list- presented a few features, fea-tures, including a 10-poTnTTrlse in the inactive Albany & Susque hanna Railroad. Wheat presented a real feature by jumping 2i to 3 1-8 cents. A substantial gain in Bell Telephone Tele-phone stations attracted attention atten-tion to . American Telephone, which at one time sold at 169 up 1 1-8. V United States Steel ranged between be-tween 65 and 65 7-8, . against a previous close of 66. Bethlehem touched 80 ?i and then ceceded to 79 Vi, off 3-8 net. ,' . Dow Jones closing- stock averages: Industrial, 146.52, up 0.18; rail, 3LC3, up 0.10; , utility, 25.03, unchanged; 05 stocks, 49.56 up. 0.07. . Stock sale 'were 590,000 shares compared with 433,-000 433,-000 yesterday. Curb stock . turnover , rose . to 151,000 shares from 109,000 yester- ONLY DAILY OF SALT LAKH PROVO, Winnie Ruth Judd -. ' 'i i. . - in YIZOTI& FANNER SUITED; -r TO GIVE TALK Dr. Vasco'M. Tanner, Vhead of the' department -"'of.' zoology at Brigham1 Young ! university, . will be . speaker,, at . the first weekly public forum meeting Thursday at 8 p.: m.,. in L the Central, .school library-auditorium,: a n n 6 unced. John" Bown, forum executive 'sec-; retary, today. . .. . -. ' Dr. Tanner will . discuss' "Utah Lake, One of . Utah's ' ; Greatest: Resources." : "K f':-C i Walter Anderson," superintend-' ent, Utah , lake harbor project. originally scheduled, to"; speak Thursday night, left unexpectedly. for Sanv Francisco Monday night with Mayor Mark "Anderson and Commissioner 'Jesse Haws to interview in-terview national park "service officials of-ficials ' concerning the" lake . project, proj-ect, . said Mr. Bown; .'- . 'Therefore, Mr. Anderson, V together to-gether with Mayor Anderson arid I City. Engineer E. A. Jacob will speak on, the harbor project next week instead of this week, Mr. Bown stated. Examinations for Aviation Course Begin at B. Y. U. Examination . of ilocal applicants appli-cants for training in the army air corps started today in Room 140-E; lower campus, Brigham Young university, ' by three members mem-bers of the flying , cadet examining exam-ining board of . the army air corps. Headed by Captain Elmer E. Adler, Hamilton Field, California, Califor-nia, the board will interview prospective army pilot material Wednesday, and possibly for a few more days, according to Robert- Taylor, lieutenant, -air corps. .';.:, ,' ' ',' - ..V, . .:... '-: A Ex-Fopthall iHero. Goes Berserk In . Lobby of Newoife NEW YORK, Dec. 5 U.R) . David Whitmore, 27, who says he used toplay football at Georgetown George-town . university, 4 staged a "flowing' "flow-ing' bowl" game in the lobby of a swank apartment house of Central park early today. . He started at 3 a. 'm. when he spotted Nils Anderson, a doorman, standing just inside the doors of 128 Central Park South. Anderson hesitated about letting him in and he kicked a hole through the plate glass. The doorman retreated. ; "Take me up to the Waters apartment," he directed Whey they reached the elevator. . . ; UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, - DECEMBER 5, 1939 c--.pr'.nr.fiv .. :.- 'J v i -- f -. mm bo mm Sentenced F o r Steal ing, Funds From U. S. Bund NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U.R) Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American bund; was sentenced to two and one-half to five years in prison today for stealing $1,217 from the treasury of the organization. T h e maximum sentence which- could have been imposed on the 42-year-old "Bundesfuehrer," who was convicted on five counts I of .'-errand ' larcenv , and forfferv. would have been 15 to 30 years. General Sessions : Judge James G. . Wallace,, however, ' sentenced him on only , three counts, -suspending sentence on the others. The sentence was 2 M to 5 years on each count, but the judge ruled that " the terms should - be served concurrently, On Three Counts ., ,- . Kuhn, his shoulders squared,-stood squared,-stood white-faced and rieid ' as Judge James G. Wallace pro nounced judgment. - . ; The three counts on which Kuhh was. sentenced were one of grand larceny and two of third desree forgery in connection with a $500 iegai fee raised by the bund for Attorney James D. C. Murray, retained re-tained by Kuhn to represent the nr-fr&anization in a v Nassau cou" tv ? Kuhn' said themoiiev was nki to the attorney, but Murrav' and his assistant denied receiving a cent. - ... 1 The counts on which ; sentence was suspended ; dealt with $712.02 of the bund's ; money .which Kuhn spent to pay the movins- costs of Mrs. Florence .- Camp, California blonde who the bund leader called Kuhn was convicted bv-a iurv of 12 business men last Wednesday Wednes-day night. .'- . - - . ' : Pi mo! Efacffon CIcrp 'Ucdncsilay Wednesday's school board election elec-tion in the Third municipal ward appeared only a formality today, with only one ; candidate, Bert Crane, incumbent president - of the Provo board of education, on the ballot. . : The polls will , be open from 7 a. m., to 7 p. m at the Timpan-ogos Timpan-ogos scfhpol, 445 .North Fifth West street, according to J. Fred Fechser, school . district clerk. The Third municipal ward includes in-cludes all territory west of. Third West and north or First South. Mr. Fechser urged that the voters exercise ? their franchise and cast ballots . Wednesday, even though Mr. , Crane ostensibly has no competition for the post. He pointed out that While only one name is on the ballot, the voters have the privilege of-Avriting in other names. Time lias been in Provo when an election has been won by a candidate whose name was not on the ballot. ; : ? , If the -board of education follows fol-lows its "rotating" procedure of the past, Mrs. s Algie E. Ballif, present vice president, will automatically auto-matically become president of the board at the first regular meeting in January, according to Mr. Fechser. However, the law provides that the board may elect its president by ballot if it desires. ' , ; if. if. if. .. Anderson said nobody named Waters lived there. "Isn't this No. 1 Fifth Avenue?" he. asked. " The doorman said that was 58 blocks south. Whitmore then announced: an-nounced: "Well, you and. I are going to play football. Here I come." ' Anderson fled to the basement and locked the door, so Whitmore had to play alone. He picked up a chair and passed it across the room. lie sent an expensive ex-pensive lamp after it. More lamps and a settee followed. He picked up a'v&se, tucked it under His - - V ' r - n J'.'U mi a urn Sentenced Mir Fritz Kuhn Prouo Gliambr of Gbmrncrc'3 "io Homo Ciglit EircGiors Eight new directors of the Provo chamber of commerce will be elected for two-year terms dur ing the next two weeks, the pri mary election having been set De cember 13 and the finals Decern ber 20 by the board at its regular meeting Monday night, . reports Secretary Clayton Jenkins. sJ. Hamilton Calder, E. R. Ras musorr and catton a. Toiboe were named judges of election. Ballots were mailed out today to all mem bers of the chamber. , They must be returned by mail or delivery by t p.. m. Wednesday, December Decem-ber 13. : '. ' - rerms Expire Outgoing, directors are Wyman Berg, I. E Brockbank, Frank Jl Earl, M," II. .Graham, Allan D. J ohnson, R. A. Mooref ield, ' S. W. Russell and E. B. Shriver. Seven of the , present ; directors , will be held over. They are John O. Bees-ley, Bees-ley, V. ; J.' ; Bird, Clyde Crockett, George L. Ellerbeck, ; Alex Hed-quisti Hed-quisti .'C.'. T. r Keigley and J. ' C. Moffitt.- "4 - r ;r'' General : plans for ; one of the largest general; membership meetings; meet-ings; of the chamber of commerce ever held were drawn, the event to be in - January. At that time new officers will be installed and reports wilFoe made by the outgoing out-going president and the secretary. Committeemen f appointed ; to handle4 arrangements for! " the meeting are Pete Ashton, Jack D. Braunagel, Bob Bullock, J. Hamilton Hamil-ton Calder, Clyde Crockett, Morris Mor-ris Ferguson, W. R. Green, Frank Gardner, Aura C. Hatch, Harvey King, Wesley P. Lloyd, J." C Mot-fitt, Mot-fitt, J. Rulon Morgan, Sterling Pr,ice, Allan - D. Johnson, S. W. Russell; ; Lee Snarr J. Edwin Stein, Ralph Swenson, Clifton A. Toiboe, Paul b. Vincent, Blaine Ward arid Paul Westwood. ; , Football Banquet The- directors voted to tender, as last year, a banquet for the Brigham Young university football foot-ball team, and authorized the chamber to proceed; at once to make plans for the event. 'It". is likely the v banquet will be held in the First ward amusement hall. The program will include a high . (Continued on Page Five) Legion Meeting ; .. Regular meeting of Provo Post 13, American Legion will be held Wednesday at p. m. at the Armory Arm-ory ; hall, announces Commander William L. Mildenhall. : arm and charged back and forth, dodging the furniture. . Anderson in the basement called the police. When the first' patrolman patrol-man arrived, Whitmore was charging down the lobby with a vase under . hi3 arm, straight toward to-ward a ;long mirror. He hit it with a crash and went down with a bloody head. - Two policemen tackled him, but he stiff-armed them. Two more dove, but the marble floor was bloody and slippery by now and heaps of rugs and broken furniture furni-ture added to' the confusion. Finally, Fin-ally, after 18 patrolmen had joined join-ed the fray he gave ia. - -J AUyuLMS1' '. lulu NAZI DEfibT REM Sweden Orders Mobilization Mobil-ization To , Prepare : M For Emergency j Bulletin: HELSINKI. Dec. 5 (UP.) An official announcement to night said 2,000 Russians had been killed and 64 Red airplanes air-planes destroyed in Karelia alone in the last three days. By JOE ALEX MORRIS Great Britain laid responsibility responsi-bility for Russia's invasion of Finland at the door of Adolf Hitler today, as the Finns carried on a doercred fieht against the Red army. Hitler made a bargain with Josef ; V. Stalin that Great Britain and France, refused, British Brit-ish Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax implied in a parliamentary debate at London, and thus "bartered" "bar-tered" the liberties of the Baltic peoples in exchange for Russian neutrality. The British foregin "secretary denounced the "inexcusable" Red army invasion of Finland and said that while the Allied powers do not expect an easy victory, they are determined to carry on unitedly unit-edly against the Nazis. ProsDects for peace, he said, are practically non-existent . at present, . and ' he warned against building up any Utopian idea of a united statin rf Europe until solid foundations are laia. - ; Significant Speech ; , - Lord Halifax's sDeech ' was 'sig nificant for bringing into the open aiuea. cnarges that Hitler .made a deal with Stalin which in effect turned the Baltic states arid perhaps per-haps .the Scandinavians and some of the Balkans--over to the soviet sphere; It also meant a " further hardening of the allied attitude toward Moscow, which at one time they still hoped to coax away from the present Russian - neu trality that favors Hitler. ? '. On the fightiner front here was little action but. in Sweden partial mobilization was ordered to bolster bol-ster defense f aclner both German waters and the Finnish area being nvaaea oy uussia. . Moscow reported the sinking of a - Finnish submarine and there were scattered reports of opera tions on the Arctic coast of Fin land, including . bombardment of Finnish towns by red airplanes and an unconfirmed report that Finnish craft had attacked the soviet Murmansk airdrome. Tire (Continued on Page Eight) Plans Gomplofo ! For Olmrity Ball Plans are complete for the 36th annual . Christmas charity ball sponsored by Provo Lodge No. 849, B. P. O. Elks, to be held Saturday night, Dec. 9 at the Elks' home. , i The committee, in charge is as follows: s. I. Levin, chairman; H. E. Rumel, t. R. Harps, H. J. Corleissen, Shirl Wilson, M. Howard How-ard Graham Paul Vincent, Louis Fischer Bob Bullock, J Edwin Stein, Sam Perlman, W. L. -Mildenhall, Elmer Singleton, Horatio Hora-tio Jones Meld D. Close, W. R. Green, Jack Somo and Paul Westwood. . v Proceeds of the dance will be used to ; help defray expenses of the annual Elks Christmas party for under pridivileged children Christmas morning. ; Mr. Levin reports the committee com-mittee is well pleased with the progress being made in the advance ad-vance sale of tickets and the cooperative spirit of the townspeople towns-people in assisting in this worthy project. Old Afre Pension Meeting Wednesday Rep. J. Earl Foote, member of the state legislature, will be the guest speaker at the old age pension meeting in the city court room Wednesday night, December Decem-ber 6, at 7 o'clock. It is desired that all members be in attendance. attend-ance. All others interested are cordially Invited. uuuf'LiJTE Ui'IITKD T&lAZURAl'U NEWS SEItVlCU .. en ) i Lin Li u-. iJ 0- A ) i hi mm F I I. I U L Li u 4 A - Agreement Provides For Purchase of Company's Com-pany's Distribution System, Furnishing of Stand-by Power Service The tri-party agreement of Utah Power and Light company, com-pany, Ulen Contracting corporation, and Provo city, which authorizes purchase of the power company distribution system sys-tem here by.-Ulen.inbehalf of the city for $1C0,000, effective April 1, was near execution today, following a special meeting meet-ing of the city commission Monday. ; A resolution authorizing Mayor Mark Anderson and City Recorder I. G. Bench to enter into the agreement with the New Chief Guy F. .Christensen, who Monday night was appointed by the city commission to succeed the late Henry East as PrOvo City chief of-police. - - . Gify Gonimission Uofes Approval of Upon recommendation of Mayor Mark Anderson, the city commission Mondav nicht appointed Guy F. Christensen, employe of Utah Power and Light company, as chief of police -.to succeed the late Henry East, at $175 per month, effective December 16. The salary of the chief of police up to December 15 will be paid the family of Mr. East.- 7 Prior to the commission's action, ac-tion, a committee of 20 men, many of whom had previously signed a petition asking that Coleman Allred, local blacksmith, be named chief of police, renewed their request re-quest that the position be given Mr. Allred. Berry Spokesman Dr. J. O. Berry, spokesman for the group, stated he believed the majority of the people who voted for a municipal power plant in November were behind Mr. Allred. Mayor Anderson explained that Mr. Christensen, whom he considered consid-ered very well qualified for the position, had been selected for and promised the appointment before Air. Aurea ana several otners had made application. j JLr. lierry, and ; Mr. Allred, who (Continued On Page Eight) Technocrat Comes To Eecture Here .Technocracy is comlncr to Pro vo Thursday night, brought by Herbert Clark, internationally famous fa-mous lecturer who is on a western tour in behalf of the scientific movement which is sweeping- the country. The meeting will be in the city court room, beginning at 7:20. There is no charge. Steps may be taken at the close of the meeting to form a local Technocracy organization here. Mr. Clark in his lecture will bring out the evil3 and faults of the present economic system and how Technocracy proposes to deal with thenu ' ":V'Y7 : f t ' V ' J Polic win Call The Herd:: If you do rot rrerlvo yc::r I promptly, call The IZr-rs-M " 4 S3, before 7 p. txv w!t t!r, 10 a ra. Sundays, and a c ; y Ik1) delivered to you. PRr?'1 PPTr"P TTTVr r'TK'T Li n r nr Li 'v- L T1 0"''"r31C2LiS' h 11 1 J h - 0 LmHQ K-W'O power company and Ulcn for pur- cnase or the attribution nyxicni within the corporate limits c,f the city was passed by the corn-mission. corn-mission. . Ulen, who Is supervising construction con-struction of the city's munic!;al power plant, and who acta x i agent for the city in purch-i connected with the project, ia expected ex-pected to sign the agreement within with-in a few days. Standby Scnlwv . The agreement provides, nrr.cr;: other things, for delivery of electrical elec-trical service by tho power company com-pany to Provo city for renalo en -1 standby purposes under a one-year one-year contract. The city has contracted con-tracted for b00 horsepower cf energy at 11,000 volts for ?l.rO per month per contract horsepower, horse-power, plus one cent per kilowatt hour for electricity use. 11Ax means a minimum charge of J7'3 per lacnth."' ' , " " Included in the purchase f r $160,000 will be all poks. wirr, switches, meters, tranjsformri-3, .street lighting circuits, and fixtures, fix-tures, and all appurtenant apparatus ap-paratus and devices owned and used by the power company 1 1 supplyinir clectricitv to .thr rJtv at present,' together with all easements. ease-ments. riE-hta and rirhts-of-we v within, the city that are lnclud I in me comnanva avstem with'n the city limits. The power comn.inv reserve. i the following properties: Its prr-i- eni suDsiauon site at 2Vco, ! North and Second West: itn ci-i substation , site: its Olrnstr i- Springvllle 44-kv transmit: on line; its Olmsted-r.antaquln 44-kv line; us u-kv feeder line; iti 11-kv substation loon: its uvtem in the disputed Cartervill nrrv all cash, accounts receivable, auto mobiles, merchandise, etores, supplies, sup-plies, materials, furniture, fix tures, or any transformers, pole.n. meiers, etc., not in place In itn distribution system now; met era and other equipment owned ty customers. $i0,0C0 Down- Under terms of the atrreemert $40,000 will be naid in rnRh , execution of the contract, the bal ance 'to bo paid on or before the distribution svstem Li delivers! to the city. The power comnanv nrre.l f i purchase from the city at market price, certain new materials as poles, line hardware, mndnrfnr and service cable, connector sleeve and craasarms, which the city al- itauy nas Dougnt. The power comnanv nn, city will read the meters together' in April, and the company will render its final bills for service up to the regular mett r reading dates in April. The city will render all bills and receive dl (Continued on Page live) AUNT HET TL dumbest u'cfnan cm be) a help to her husburul. If can glv liLu hotwlnnly f blame hen things wrong." V: |