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Show PAGE "SIX PROVO (UTAH) DAILY- HERALD ,', MONDAY; MARCH r 9; :V" v.. Supremo Court Justice Only State Post To De Filled In 1942 Election By DAVID F. BELNAF , United Free SUTf Ootreapondent ' SALT LAKE GXTY March B (HE) Utah- voters r and politicians today start thinking about the first " war-time election ... the Bee Hive 'state ; has' scheduled in 24 years an election that most ob servers predicted would be the quietest in those same 24 years. .Only one- office will be up for consideration by. all the voters' of the state that of Justice of the Supreme Court. The only other important Jobs that will be placed on the election block will be those of congressmen but these will be split into the state's two congressional districts, with .Waiter .Wai-ter Granger and J. Will Robinson Robin-son as incumbents. ' ' ' The main state elective officers, led by Gov. Herbert B. Maw, will not be up for reelection until 1944 Utah's , senior senator, Elbert . Thomas, has two more years of his ' six-year term to serve. Abe. 3furdock, ; Junior senator. Is serving serv-ing .a term that will not- expire Until 1946. - In the purly state picture, 75 seats in the state legislature must be filled all 6 in the house of representatives and 15 in the senate. The senate vacancies include in-clude those regularly coming un- der the staggered terms of the constitution and those made when Maw ousted from legislative office all men holding other etate Jobs. " The first shot in the election battle will come six weeks from tomorrow April 21 when Sec-. Sec-. retary of State E. E. Monson opens his office for filings for places on the Primary election ballot bal-lot The Primary election comes Sept. 1. Nominations not settled then will be decided by the voters at the runoff primary five weeks later on Oct. 6. The general election will be Nov. 3. Monson, and his assistant; as-sistant; Frank Lees, urged all patriotic malms". to vote. . One issue may come before the Voters that will overshadow all other developments at the general gen-eral election. It is that of the chain store tax. A tax bill was passed after a legislature and was to have gone Into effect last ydar. But chain store operators circulated peti-tions peti-tions that forced postponement of the tax, at least until it was submited to the voters in a referendum. ref-erendum. . The referendum is now scheduled sched-uled to go on the Nov. 3. general election ballot. But the chain store association has proposed to the. Independent Retail . UroceiS' Association, proponents of the measure, that the referendum be postponed for the duration of the war as a "national unity" proposition. However, legislative action would be necessary to take the proposition off the Nov. 3 ballot 'definitely and no aession of the legislature is scheduled before next January. The chain stores inferentially suggested that a special session be called, but Maw has taken no action. EIGHT SPIES TO BE SENTENCED NEW YORK, March 9 (UK) Eight spies -who had worked diligently dili-gently for Nazi ,. Germany, faced a maximum of 20. years in prison today. They will be sentenced March 13 a . Friday. They were lucky. If the. Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended their careers after Germany declared de-clared war on the United State, instead of . last summer, they would have been subject to trial before a military court and deatk before a firing squad A jury found six of them guilty last night, after deliberating, two hours and 40 minutes. , Two Lucky Boehmler, a pretty, 18-year-old blonde, lately out of high school, and Hans Helmut Pagel had pleaded guilty. Miss Boehmler spent two days testifying against her colleagues, missing none of them, and it was believed her sentence would be light. The defendants were Kurt Frederick Fred-erick Ludwig, scrawny, dimple-chinned dimple-chinned brains of the ring; Paul T. Borchardt, a . major "on parole" pa-role" from the German army; Helen Pauline Mayer, a tall, attractive at-tractive housewife, whose husband left her and fled- back tol Germany; Ger-many; Rene Froelich, a naturalized natural-ized citizen who was drafted into the army but continued to serve Germany; Karl Victor Mueller, a machinest, and Frederick Edward Schlosser, 20, a big, blond youth, who said his love for Miss Boerm-ler Boerm-ler was greater than for the fatherland. FIRES BURNING RANGOONCITY M AND ALA Y, Burma, March 8 (Delayed) (TIE) A great pall of smoke was ' reported hanging over the "dead city" of Rangoon today as Japanese troops operating oper-ating on lines similar to Britian's commandos Infiltrated across the main railroad line to the north in an encircling attack toward the Burma capital. . (Tokyo propaganda broadcasts on Sunday said that Rangoon had been taken by the Japanese after a severe battle at Pegu, north of the capital, where 4,000 . Australian Austra-lian and Indian troops were en-- en-- circled and pounded until their lines were broken.) ' ' Reports t from Rangoon said the skies were filled with smoke from fires lighted by saboteurs in addition to the destruction by British fires done to prevent important im-portant installations from falling Into, enemy hands. Japanese Deny Suicide Story TOKYO, March 9 (Japanese Broadcast Recorded By (HE) In San Francisco) Tokyo radio today to-day quoted Lieut.-Gen. Masaharu Homma, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines, as denying de-nying reports he had committed hara kiri. Homma was said , to have recalled re-called Mark Twain's celebrated remark re-mark that "reports of his death were slightly exaggerated," and that he laughingly remarked he now Joins Gen. Hanami, who only recently was regarded as another hara kiri victim by American propagandists. "Observers here remarked that the -American radio news currently current-ly was suffering from lack of new material, particularly from the Philippine sector," Tokyo radio said, "and with the Allied, command com-mand undergoing nothing but reverses, re-verses, enemy propagandists are trying to balance the score by the hara kiri of those Japanese commanders com-manders which they so wishfully have nought to remove from command.'' Soringrville Begins Homes Registration SFRINGVTLLE A large corps of volunteer committee members have begtuv the work of registering business houses and homes in this city as one phase of the national civlian defense program. Mayc- W. W. Clyde has asked cooperation of citizens in' the work and in answering the various questions asked. Mrs. Floss TTuIUps is general chairman of the. registration, assisted as-sisted by A. R. Peterson, chamber of commerce secretary, and a large group of committeemen in each ward district. SON IS KILLED -OAKLEY, Ida., March 9 (EE) Mrs. Mary Whitby, Oakley, today to-day had received word from the war department that her 28-year-old son, Frank Oldham Warr, was killed in action on Bataan Peninsula. Penin-sula. . Warr had been in the Philippines Philip-pines for the last two years and was reported killed on Feb. 22 while fighting with Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur a forces. UNEASY STOMACH? . You may have Xt'a horribW to think -about, but yon had attar faca tha facta. Anybody, anywhere, earn hmw roundworms I If yon haw aiffna nek m amssj atwfiarti. ttcnin mom ana aeaW awounnfiaa. finicky appattta. tboaa peaUsaax ba Uriog Inside yoa mow I ' Plar amfal Get Ja7 Yarmifag rlfht away I Jama's ta Amariem'a leading proprietary proprie-tary worm medicine. Scientifically tested. Used br illlinaa for over a century.' It xpote large worms, yet acta very-gently. If no worm are there, it works cutely aa a aaild saxaUYe. uemaaa ayasra erauiswe. .- PBEZt Larre trial bottle, free of chart-. This man tk only. Send this ad with nam and ' address to Dr. J syne, 2 Vine St., Phila,. Pa. adv. DEATH HELD SUICIDE GLASGOW, Mont., March 9 0J.R) County authorities said today they were satisfied that death of George Steinmetzer, 51, Glasgow street supervisor, was a suicide and no inquest would be held. Steinmetzer was found, .shot through the head and with his rifle lying nearby, by a street department employe . at the city shops. He died in a hospital Thursday night. He leaves his widow and 10 children. ALASKA ROAD ROUTE SCORED , - i . WASHINGTON, March 9 (UJTV The easterly route for the Alaskan highway v; selected by the United States and Canada was denounced denounc-ed as an "ill-founded blunder" today to-day - by , two - American ' members of ' the' International Highway commission. , 'James - W. Carey of Seattle, Wash., and Donald MacDonald of Fairbanks, Alaska, said that both Canadian and American members "are now and have been urging Immediate. - construction of the westerly route." y, . , t Approval of the. eastern route- running from Dawson Creek, near Ft. St. John, Alberta, and thence through Ft. Nelson, Watson Lake, White Horse, Kluane Laker, i Big Delta and terminating in Fairbanks'was Fair-banks'was announced . yesterday in Ottawa by Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King. Mackenzie King said selection of the easterly route was ."based on purely military considerations." Carey and MacDonald said the westerly route, which would run to Whitehorse by way of Prince George, British Columbia, could be .constructed faster because of its proximity to railroads ' and supply centers. The other route, they said, would entail needless construction of roadway through difficult terrain. I 1 JURY ACQUITS MRS. COPPARD PRESTON, Ida., March 9 (EE) Mrs. Grace Coppard, 43-year-old Soda Springs beauty shop operator, oper-ator, today was free of first degree de-gree murder,, charges resulting from the death of Paul Tipton, Sr., former Soda Springs mayor. A district court Jury yesterday acquitted Mrs. Coppard of the shooting. ' The verdict was returned re-turned after six hours and five minutes of deliberation. Mrs. Coppard did not testify at the trial but her counsel, H. J. Swanson, asserted she was forced' to fire on Tipton in self-defense. self-defense. She was arrested last Aug. 27 after Tipton'a body was found in a Soda Springs reservoir. Drug Ring Couple Under Arrest SEATTLE, March 9 (U.R Fed eral narcotics agents today announced an-nounced the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Chadwlck described de-scribed as leaders of the nation's largest drug ring. They were taken into custody last night near Tacoma. A. M. Bangs, district supervisor super-visor of the federal bureau of narcotics, said the Chadwicks were wanted in Dallas, Tex., for Jumping an appeal bond. They had appealed a conviction that broke up a nation-wide ring headquartered head-quartered in New York. Chadwick, 46, was identified "definitely" as the leader of the three men who at gun point robbed the Tacoma Wholesale Drug Company of $5,000 in narcotics nar-cotics June 20, 1941, Bangs said. Indian Fighter Dies in Montana DILLON, Mont., March 9 G) James E. Phillips, 91, Indian fighter and pioneer, and grandson grand-son of a soldier who fought with Washington In the Revolutionary war. died at his home here last night. Phillips, during one, of his Indian In-dian campaigns, was a. packer with General Crook's detachment which was moving up, 25 miles away, when General Custer's command was wiped out by the Sioux In the BatUe of the Little Big Horn. Phillips also knew Buffalo Bill Cody, "Calamity Jane," "Wild Bill" Hickock during their hey dey on the frontier. He came here in 1882 and later served as county coroner for 19 years, resigning re-signing . In 1940. Shipbuilding Program 'ust Got jto' Come Through," Says Donald nelson WASHINGTON, March 9 U.R War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson said today the nation's shipbuilding program has "Just got to come through", this year because the country's fate is at stake. He was asked at an informal press conference about the statement state-ment yesterday by William H. Harrison, director, of WPB production, pro-duction, that there was - a possibility possi-bility that the -president's goal of 8,000,000 tons of new bottoms this year might not be met. 1 "I have not recognized t any such possibility,".. Nelson replied. ."The shipbiulding program - has Just got to jcome - through, f The whole nation is at stake. : y ' He met reporters immediately after President William Green of the AFL and Presiderit Philip Murray of the CIO . had pledged to, him their full . cooperation - in striving to achieve Mr. Roose velt's industrial blueprint for victory. vic-tory. . . The, union chieftains met with the WPB chairman . for an hour and 20 minutes. They pledged the wholehearted support of all branches of labor to efforts to increase- war production during the remaining months of 1942. Nelson said . both labor representatives repre-sentatives were 100 per cent behind be-hind the program to accelerate production of war materials . by one-quarter, as outiiped by him in his radio speech Monday night. : He said he discussed the whole subject ' of ' labor-industry Joint committees with the labor representatives rep-resentatives and that the discus sion was "completely -harmoni ous and cooperative." fy 'J - Nelson said the; workers of the nation wanted to sweep aside any obstacles that stand in the way of Production.: He said that there were no ; strikes at the present time interferring with war pro duction. ... y . -'T" EUEIfYDODY'S TALKING! y;y"'';.ira.ATAi.THEY'sAG? ' Hjtch Firmagc's Grow! We didn't dream we would be enlarging when we built 5 years ago. We thought we were building for the future. But here we are enlarging already. Putting in a meezzanine floor that will give us over a third again as much selling space. This remodeling will give Central Utah its finest Ladies' Ready-to-Wear department, A complete new largr Shoe department and a new complete men's Work Clothing department I 'y ' - .J- V"v'. - . . - . - OwtfStoife 11 y -y o DutE (DDDElDlivK To compensate for the noise of busy carpenters, electricians, , etc. Firmage's bringr you a smashing Remodeling Sale which in the light of present market prices, are positively sensational. 500 Facial TISSUES 25c Juttt mmpare Ibis sne still imrkrd 500 to a bnv ml still (he sarae old -price! Lunch Cloths . 49c Cannon Towels 19c Bed Pillows . . 49c 2 11 co Bath Sets . . S1.Q0 Beg. 1.98 B. Y. TJ. Emblem Sweaters . . . 98c Ladies' Skirts . $1 . . i Brassiers. 25c 1 Lot Corselet tes Girdles . J2 Price Elastic Girdles 89c ; Vajad Sanitary iiAPiuns 19c r I'wkptl 13 1 ft bo Hero's savins t hut's worthy ' stocking op now! " 9 Only Ladies' Corduroy Suits V2 P"ce Large Sired Bed .. .Pillows . . $1.09 This Same Print it Selling in Utah As High As S9c yard - - . - t Quadriga Cloth 25c Pastel Colored Heavy 2 Thread ' ' Towels. . . . 25c 25 Spring Steel v Razor Blades 25c Leather .Faced Work Gloves . 69c SPECIALS FROM OUR LADIES READY TO WEAR 32 Only Crepe Housecoats $1.98 No more at this sensational price Ladies Topper COATS $3.98 Just arrived see this new assortment. You'll want one now. Ladies 'and Misses BLOUSES $1.19 A big assortment of blouses in all size. Many styles. Reg:. 3.98 Rayon DRESSES $2.69 1 rack of these dresses we must clear them now save. . Kiddies Print OBESSES 59c Your little-girl will like the style. Youll like the quality. Coats - Dresses Suits 12 Price SAVINGS FROM OUR BABY DEPARTMENT Pink or Blue Crib BLANKETS 49 c Each These will sell in a hurry. Easy to wash good size. v Blue or Pink Knit SWEATERS 59c A real savings limited quantity; quan-tity; Hurry. Babys Silk-Tex PAHTIES ' "59C pr. ' Sizes small, medium or large. You'll appreciate this quality .v. Waterproof Mattress COUEBS $1.00 A saving "In price- a saving for your mattress. - Blue or pink. Fancy colors. TUMBLE TOGS 79c Set 2-piece sets smock and Jim-mie Jim-mie snap grippe r easy to wash Rubber Lined Diaper BAGS Zipper topJouble - handle. Comes in clever baby pattern. SAVINGS IN THINGS YOU NEED FOR THE HOME! 10,000 Chenille Tufts SPBEAO $2.98 4 only at this price so-hurry. Very slightly soiled 12 Fancy Bars SOAP 69 c Box Packed 12 in a box If you take our tip you'll stock up on this cold cream complexion soap. - - Ga? Colored Throw BUGS Good large throw rugs Assorted As-sorted colors and styles. Cannon Band TOWELS 25c See this big assortment of pastel colored towels. Rag Throw RUGS 49c Rag and miscellaneous throw rugs A few odds and ends at this price. Hurry. Cotton Bed SPREABS 90c Youll pay at least 1.49 for this' same spread 15 only so ' hurry. . ' " Fleetwood Carpet I Sweepers Doable rotary ' brash ar-tian, ar-tian, fiairer touch . control for emptying dirt. A Bal Iters Kin! . Boys 2 Piece Slack Suits .... . $1.98 Men's Long Sleeve Sport Shirts . 98c Men's 12 Lh. Rib Union Suits . . 98c Sizes 2 to 14 Boys Polo Shirts. 98c Men's Vests and Shorts . ... 25c 8 Doz. SUghUy Shaded Be;.' 2.98 Gaberdine Shirts ... $2.49 Boys Spring '.." Hats . .... 49c Leather ODDS AND ENDS IN FRIEDMAN-SHELBY SHOES 15 Only Reg. 2.98 LADIES' DRESS SHOES $137 Closeout patterns in assorted sizes of odds and ends save now. 2000 Yds. Reg. 25c PRINT 19c Yd. Fin nnhrh' finish Jttst compare this quality ! 52 Pair Reg. to1 4.98 LADIES' DRESS SHOES $2.50 Cloeout patterns In reg. 3.98 and ' 4.98 style shoes youll save plenty if you can find your size. - ' S . 20 Pair Reg: to 7.50 LADIES' ARCH shoes $3.98 Scientifically perfected arch shoes at a ridiculous close-out price.' Not all sizes but fair assortment . $17. horschhle' or 9Ien's Grey - - Sweat Shirts 98c Men's Sleeveless t " Sweaters . . 98c Men's Silk Dress - - Shirts . . .' $1.98 Boys 8 Oz. , v Overall . . . . 69c Men's Red Ball Carpenter. ' - O'Alls . . . $2.39 Bine or Stripe 3fao'a Red Ball . Y "WHERE WOUR DOLLAR IS NOT; SPENT : : BUT INVESTED AT HOME" ' r-v - ii sssss ssssss " i aim ' an as is ssss i sssssssissssssssssssssssssssssMMiassssss ' Overall ... $1.39 Men's Work1" - Shirts ... - 98c . , ... - x - . . Boys 4 Oz. ' Sanforized "" ; Waist OIAIIs y Y90cy; - : Kivet " rrtnforecd, triple , trwa,. fall S ., Wcisfat,. ' amaforiaed ahrank for last - - ins m: ' ; - 'For; Thriftu.Shoppers 3 t |