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Show ..V - h- 'X. ' -4-. t W U ; ' 77ie Wctithcr .... t (. Call The Herald If you do not receive your Ilerxl 1 promptly, call Tiio Herald of flea, 403, before 7 p. m. week days, an J 10 a. m. Sundays and a. copy vrUl be delivertd to. you. i -1 . V ( V.,: '. UTA1 1 : Fair tonight and Friday , 'Warmer tonight. ' . Maximum temp., Wednesday 73s Minimum temp., Wednesday i .4t FIFTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 236 SSSSSn YSServuS .PROVO,, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, ; THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939 - Member Scrlppa LgTi DPTPP. TTTUT. PFN. i - of Newspaper anJ NEA - xkxwJ-i x w - - r3 rz7 i i . . Z3 LZ) n r ru 13 I - I i J I . : Lzi.U LI Uz3:Ul. 0 n V s -. 0 CITY COSTS OVER BUDGET SAYS AUDITOR Improvement P r o j e c ts Push Expenditures Over Estimates , . in five months, Erovo city has disbursed 53 per cent of the entire budgeted expendi-' expendi-' ture for the entire year 1939, according to a report issued Thursday from the office of Mary F. Smith, city auditor Expenditures to June total $119,534. Budgeted expends tnrM are $225,350. leaving $105,t 816 unexpended. Revenue for the' f Ive-monuv period total ,o.ou or $8310.63 more than expenses. Spending to June 1 has been as follows: Public airairs ana -ance, $12,953; street lighting, $7,306; bond interest, $4772; auditing audit-ing department, $1583; purchase of postofflce building, $2000. Police department, $8914 fire department, $6430; civil service commission, $233; health, department, depart-ment, $1601; milk inspection, $611; meat inspection, $563; building and wire inspection, $400; attorney, $789; city, court, $1705; sewer operations $708; irrigation; $4947; fstreet department; $10,972; engineering engi-neering department, $4398; ma- chine shop, $848. , , s-"-Cemetery. $2479; park depart-. depart-. ment; $2392; 2 golf course, $1203; creation, $12S8;.t sundry, i $408; 'public improvements,. $34,908. . apartment; only; $8580 of a budget- ed $43,500 remain unexpended, due v'to the vast number of projects - under way. Practically all other city -departments are operating r within the "budget, according, to .the report. ' . Largest expenses in the public Improvements department are t $6228 for curb and gutter, district ;No. 8, 4817 for sewer district No. .23, $4275 for street-paving district No. 29: ' $3637 f or the cemetery kanoi anri S5570 for rock crusher operations. " 'N MERRY GQ-ROUND Daily Picture of What's GoingOn in National Affairs 11 Bt DREW PEARSON ItOTtERT R. AIXFIN Chamberlain Intervened To Invito. Senate Wives Tf4 Itoval Garden Party ; Canny Sir Charles Ross Sawf Growth of 111 Will, Pulled Cabinet Wires; Deathrage Has "BarbecJ Wire Register" Regis-ter" of Enemies Slated For Dungeon ; Gardiner Jackson No. 15862 on "Patriotic Organization's" Or-ganization's" Blacklists. WASHINGTON It was Ne ville Chamberlain himself who intervened in-tervened at the last moment to, see tbat senatorial wives were invited in-vited to the British, Embassy's ( &nrAn nartv for the King and ,0 " M r ' Queen. V And the man who, prompiea Chamberlain to make thla move is Sir Charles Ross, a little known but significant figure In British-American British-American relations for more than 3ft vaarfl v J v. c Ross is a -70-vear-old Scotsman residing permanently in Washington. Washing-ton. He was a close friend of Lord Northcliffe, also of President Wilson, and beforeWHsort sailed on hia Deace treatv mission. Sir Charles, an astute student of U. , s. pouues, aavisea mm 10 ,iaKc along a group of Senate leaders. Wilson, disregarded the advice and lived tp regret It. In recent years Sir Charles has lived In, retirement. ,.But he was stirred to activity by the ill-feeling he saw developing; in senate circles cir-cles as a result of Lady Lindsay's exclusion of half Its membership from the coveted garden party. So he wrote a personal letter to Chamberlain pointing out the key role the senate plays in u. s. for-j eign relations, and urgently advis ing that regardless of space, w all the senators and their wives .. be Invited. In addition, Sir Charles wrote Contlnued on Page 3, . Sec. . 2 Tom Pendergast, . as No. 55295 WiVVVV Thomas Jt. Pendergast, on time Democratic overlord of Kansas City, as Convict No. 5293 in Leavenworth' penitentiary. peni-tentiary. 907 Jewish Refugees Seek Haven In U. S. ABOARD REFUGEE LINER ST. LOUIS. AT SEA, June 8 (OR) The 907 Jewish refugees, aboard the St. Louis, steaming, back toward to-ward Germany after having-Jeen refused admission to. Cuba, pray- ' ea. for divine intervention today io f ind- them .'place --pt ref ger Sunday, morning ;is the deadline. dead-line. Unless a. decision Is made by. ChenXit will b3 impossible for technical reasons for the St. Louis to turn back. Hope, now turned toward the United States where Bernard H. Sandler is trying to arrange for entry of the refugees. Sandler, a New York lawyer, is trying to raise a bond in hope the St. Louis could lie off New York while he pleaded with President Roosevelt and congress to permit per-mit the refuges to enter as a good will gesture incident to the visit of King George ana ueen Elizabeth. The Hamburg-Ameriof trustees presided at the meet can line, owners of the St. Louis, said thejr would-turn the ship toward New York if Sandler posted post-ed a $50,000 bond to guarantee payment of $5,000 a day costs for holding the ship off New York. The passengers are mostly flesnairinev and as the ship con tinues toward Hamburgh uneasi ness increases. A panic would be almost inevitable if the Sunday rfonri.iin nassed without hope officers and crew of the St. Louis art? doing au tney can ir the comfort Of tne passengers. The passengers try to pass the nm on board by language coursest music and games to ward of their depressing thoughts. Baseball Today AIVlERICAN LEAGUE (1st) Boston 401 000 02. St. Louis 000 202 30 Galehouse. Heving (6) Desautels; Gill. Whitehead (1), Spindel. New York .010 010 Chicago i 020 000 Donald Dickey; Smith, Tresh. Washington Cleveland -r Krakauskas, Hemsly. ..000 021 ...000 213 Ferrell; Harder, Philadelphia . . .002 000 0 ...000 030 3 Detroit Beckman, betts. Bruckler; Trout, Teb- NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh Boston . -tOOO 000 000-. 000-. .,..000 110 OOx- Tobin and Berres; Mueller, Fette and Lopez. Chicago ......000 011 100 3 New, York' ..... .20 002 OOx 5 Lee,1. Root ( 7 ) , Hartnelt ; Gumbert, JBrovm (7). Danning. Cincinnati Philadelphia . . . ?. (Only games scheduled). SIX REFUGEES LAND IN CUBA HAVANA June : 8 (U.n' The French steamer Flandre returned here toaay with 102-Jewish reru- gees for whom it had been unable to find a haven. V- v.:; Pfflsoie FOR BUILDING OM'Y'CAffUS Chapel, Religious Education Edu-cation Center To Be Built Soon Architect's plans for the new Brigham Young university chapel , and religious re-ligious education center were approved Wednes day at a meeting of the board of trustees of thet university, it is reported oy president t s. warns. Fred Lv Markham of Provo was selected as architect by the board, President Harris' said. A building committee to supervise super-vise construction of the new chapel was appointed by the board. It in cludes Herald R, Clark, dean of the college of commerce of B. Y. U.; J. Wyley Sessions, professor 6f religious education and direc tor of religious activities; and Wm. H. Snell, associate professor of mechanic arts. . The building as approved provides pro-vides for an auditorium with seating seat-ing capacity for 1200 persons in the main body of the hall and 400 additional on the stage. Adjoining the main auditorium will be an amusement hall in which 500 more may be seated. Reception Room, , Lobby- A reception room ,and 'lobby Ui the religious center will also be adaptable to provide seating for ing will contain 18 class rooms, 14 offCsand a party and banquet ban-quet room. Location of the new building will be on the upper campus east of ithe Heber J. Grant . library and? the George H. Brimhall build ing. Construction of the chapel will be, accomplished with the cooperation coopera-tion or the L. D. S. church welfare wel-fare organization. It is expected that the construction will require approximately 15 months for completion. President Heber' J. Grant, president of the L. D. S. church, and president of the board ing. Members of the board who were present had previously been in attendance at the 63rd graduation gradu-ation exerciser held in the Provo tabernacle Wednesday morning. PROVO JAYGEES Fourth place in a national contest con-test in which 500 cities competed is the achievement made by the Provo junior chamber of commerce com-merce in venereal disease control. The annoouncement was re-c re-c Ived this week toy Dr. J. Rus-scil Rus-scil Smith, chairman of the Jay-cee Jay-cee committee offpuhlic health. Awarding of a cash prize and certificate will be made to Provo delegates at the national convention conven-tion in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 21, states Dr. Smith. V The Provo Jaycees won their award through their drive for control con-trol of syphilis. Contributing to the local program, besides. Dr. Smith, were Committeemen Dr. Lloyd N. Farner, Howard F. Feast, Dr. D. Eldon Beck, A. Sherman Christenson, Mac Swenson, Bert Wootton, James -iFreestone and Elvin Anderson, rr- irunlicn driving Charge Filed Arrested on West Center street Wednesday night by Officers Albert Al-bert Halladay and; Wesley Robey after he allegedly -had run his car into another .machine, Robert Braithwalter Spanish, Fork, was charged with drunken driving. He, however, pleaded not guilty in city court Thursday. HLsrftrial was set for June 14, and he was committed to Jail pending posting bond. Coming Events Rotary Club, Friday, 12:15 p.m.. Hotel Roberts. 1 Under direction of Jack . Braunagel, - members- .will visit Provd Herald plant immed- lately after luncheon. - - British Royalty Guests of United States - ( . ... ' ' . f V 1 i ; " bf"- ;-: t:':-::-:':-:-:.:.-.-. e x -. r ; i , I ''I WMtlMMMUu.w. - This striking close-up photo shows Americans as the three-day round Stravjfcsrrps For ling, Queen WASHINGTON, D. C, June 8 Two crates of large, strawberries, grown in Orem, Utah, and shipped by the Provo junior chamber of commerce for the . royal breakfast of the king and queen of . England in the White , House Friday morning, arrived ar-rived here today via United Air Lines antf were placed under refrigeration re-frigeration pending the big event. According to Representative J. Will Robinson, who took the crates from the plane and delivered de-livered them to the White House, the berries arriv din splndid shape. They were chosen, from the fields of J. B. Stratton, Emery McKellip, Elwood Baxter, Wayne Ellis and D. Orlo Allen on Provo bench, being selected by Orem officials and the , Provo junior chamber. The herries were put on board the plane in Salt Lake City Wednesday Wed-nesday evening by 13 Utah county coun-ty men assisted by the strawberry straw-berry queens, Miss Phyllis Gill-man, Gill-man, Orem, and Miss Helen Heri-richsen. Heri-richsen. Pleasant Grove. Members present included , A? Sherman Christenson, president of the Provo junior chamber,? Mayor B. M, Jolley, Orem; William Wil-liam Haase. Harley J. Corleissen,." A. V. Washburn, Howard Feast, James Freestone, Mark D. Eg-gertsen, Eg-gertsen, Denzil A. Brown, Clayton Clay-ton Jenkns, secretary of the Prbvo chamber of commerce; Reed Biddulph, Glade Linebaugh," Udell Jolley and W R. Butler." Mr- Butler was responsible for initiatirtrr tha llob fAi ehlnnlntr ttie berries, accor dinar to Presi dent Christenson of the junior, chamber. This Day,,. t LICENSED TO MARRY BertjOwen Brown, 27, Spring ville, and Jean Adele'UHock, 22, j .Sprlngville. Martin Howard Graham. 407 Provo, and Doris Marie StreeL 29, Provo. - LaVar Spens Rasmussen, 23 Burlington, Wyo.; and Zola Vcl-ate Vcl-ate Box, 19, Provo, married by county clerk. . " ' i Eldon ..Russell Mecham,V24, Wallsburg, and Rea LaVern Shepherd, Shep-herd, 18. , Sprlngville, in Salt Lake City. . f, , DIED. MrsMaud McDonald Stevens, 55, wife ' of Ezra A.'1 Stevens.' -!- :- ... . 0 f i A v. how King Geo rge ' VI and Queen Elizabeth': of England: look f to of functions be gan in their honor at ' -.Washington, D. C With U. . ; , By RUBY BLACK . ' . ' United, Press Cnwpondeni v . , WASHINGTON, June 8 U.R&The aina'and the First , Ladv-of 130.000.000 -Americarismet today PAandTode'iri splendor past hundreds ofr thousands. ir. . ' Queen Elizabeth of Great r : FERRON BOY ELECTROCUTED The electrocuted body of six-year-old Dean Funk was found today in a pasture, one hand still clutching the wire which sent the current - through him. Wednesday the boy said he was going to visit a chum, and when he failed to return home a search was started. He had been dead about 12 hours when found. DA Conference To Open Friday , 'M. L A. workers were preparing prepar-ing today to attend the annual M. I. A June conference which begins, be-gins, Friday, continuing, ; Saturday and Sunday, with a recreational leaders institute Monday at Lagoon. La-goon. - , ' Opening reception begins Friday Fri-day at 8:45 a. m. on the tabernacle taber-nacle grounds, Salt Lake City. The opening session at 9:45 will be devoted to a portrayal of the M. I. A theme, "By Love Serve One Another." The M. I, A activities ac-tivities will be demonstratde at the 2:15 p. m. session. In the evening eve-ning at 7 the annual dance festival will be held at Saltair. Sessions wili continue through Saturday and. Sunday with a special spe-cial general session, Sunday at 2 p.m. . Stress is being placed on. the explorer leaders', training Institute, Saturday at 1:30. p. m.v The new M Men-Gleaner . plan will be introduced at the Saturday Satur-day night tabernacle session.. Commissioner arid Wife Take Trip ' . . - ....... i r City Commissioner and Mrs. Haws, are in New York: City visiting the world's fair and their son, William, employed , by the United Air Lines as a pilot. They traveled via air. , Before re turning next week to Provo the commissioner will attend at-tend the national convention of waterworks officials at Atlantic City.vN. - v. S; Britain, and Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president of'the United States two women ciaq in mue exchanged: first greetings in . the lavishly-fitted presidential robmi at Union station. Mrs Roosevelt did not curtsy. Then - they rode down, historic avenues of Washington; : seated side-by-eide in an open automobile, while from the sidelines, came the "oha" and- "ahs" of women spectators spec-tators who marveled at the queen's beauty. , r Clad in a ' gossamer dress of greyish fclue, : the ' Queen - raised a flimsy white parasol to shield her head from the intense Washington sun. But she held' the parasol high' enough to enable spectators to obtain n a clear view. But the first lady and the v Queen smiled at the cheers of the massed thousands thous-ands ; who lined their . route, and waved-graclously as their car carried car-ried them to the White House. Bridge Gap ;- Mrs. Roosevelt, 54, tall and gracious, gra-cious, ' and Queen ; Elizabeth, 38, five-feetrtwo and radiant, bridged at the moment of their meeting the gap between their backgrounds old Scotland and New York. Queen Elizabeth stepped off: the royal train Only-; a moment after her husband King George alighted. alight-ed. ' . ;'; . ... . ... .. .; As honor detachments of ;; marines ma-rines ' snapped . to attention ..the Queen took her plaice between the King and Secretary of. State Cor-dell Cor-dell Hull, rand walked; slowly toward to-ward ' the president's reception room. ; Only ; . five-feet-two, the Queen occasionally, like any other i wife walking with a tall husband, ; was forced to .take a iqulck. etep-and-one-half to keep up.- ; ! The meeting in the deep - blue carpet of the reception roorn ' was brief. Mrs. Roosevelt, standing at the side of the president,! turned to the . Queen' after greeting: King George. The : two women smiled, exchanged gfeetings; Fbrthe first time In history the Queen of Great Britain and the' wife of the president presi-dent of the United States had met and they i seemed at once to like each other. " . Library to Be ; Closed for Moviiig .... Starting Saturday ', the . Provo public library will be closed Indefinitely In-definitely while;: books, .furniture and equipment are moved to the new " building at First East and Center : street, now , . practically completed,"1" announces Librarian Maline S. Bandley". No charge will be made for books overdue during Eirst Lady the period. Piresidleiiato BHtlsIi Royalty First Visit in History of Reigning Monarchs ofcfiritish Empire From Which 13 In-, f ant Colonies Once Broke Away . . v By WEBB BULLER United Press Correspondent v WASHINGTON, June 8 U.R) -- President -Roosevelt's handshake, thundering cannon, anoT the ringing1 cheers of plain citizens today welcomed George VI and Elizabeth of Britain to the capital of the United States. ? . .. It was the first visit in history of reigning monarchs of. the empire from which thirteen infant colonies, by revoluton and war, Shewed a democratic destiny, r ; Welcomed By President The King and Queen stepped from their special train of royal blue in .shington's Union station. A moment" later President and Mrs. Roosevelt surrounded by the highest officials of-ficials of government, bade them welcome. ". . Mr. Roosevelt grasped the King's hand and said warmly and without regard to the stiff formality of diplomatic etiquette: eti-quette: ' V How are you ? I ra so glad to see you. . - British Hoyalfy ncocsvelf Guests At VJliite IIousq WASHINGTON. . June 8 (Ui? tfritishroyaJtyetsU-fstfe taste of American life, today at the most star-spangled institution of them all the White House. " For 36 hours, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt will offer the hospitality,, hos-pitality,, of the American people to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth' under, the friendly roof of .the stately .southern colonial mansion wlilch has been the home of American presidents since the time of John Adams. During those hours, and later a V the .president ial .estate at Hyde Farfc, n. Y., the royal visitors will gain their most intimate, impression - of American customs as distinguished distinguish-ed from the Canadian way of life they just have seen. They will at their first real American food, witness American entertainment and engage in the typically American custom of see ing the sights of Washington. The White House itself has been prettied up for the occasion. There's a new carpet on the floor of the upstairs hall outside the chambers set aside for the, king and queen. Arid the -whole, house has been gone over from top to bottom just as any good housekeeper house-keeper would dictate when important im-portant company's coming. L'car . s Youth Problems Importance of focusing attention atten-tion of children of juvenile arid adolescent, ages on worthwhile objectives ob-jectives was stressed before the members of the Provo Kiwanis club afcHbtel Roberts today, by Antone K. Romney, seminary instructor. in-structor. Mr. Romney amplified his "remarks "re-marks by . charts taken from a survey of , juvenile delinquency in the Fourth- judicial district from 1929 to 1939, during which time 2,958 cases were studied. His study indicated a general downward, down-ward, tendency in juvenile delin-quincy delin-quincy during the period. Dr.- M. W. Merrill was chairman chair-man of the meeting. Sam Worthing,, Worth-ing,, Charles DeMoisy, and Madison Madi-son Davis were Introduced - as gUestS. ""''; '- :.;. lyP'l. - Keith Fielding and Eugene Faux were introduced as the two boys sponsored by Kiwanis to attend the Boys'. ' State, at Jordan Narrows, Nar-rows, July 5. ' - 'A : , Dangers to T.laat -In Prouo 1 Charles L. Smith, Salt Lake City banker, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Utah County Bankers', Bank-ers', association, tonight at the Roberts Hotel. ? F. C. Packard of Springville, president, .will be . in charge. . Election of officers will be the principal: order of ' business. busi-ness. -r ' 1 -v uitvanian WiSe Outside in the warm sunshine of a .-.cloudless ; June day echoed the shouted cheers of the multi tude of Americans-restlmated a t 60Q,000--i-packing the mile ; and a half procession route, from tlxe station "to -the domed capitol and on; to'r the AVhite7 House." ' Perf -SeUmgl; ,7:.""'- V.." . From V 'the emerald . grasslan da 4-oIAIaryland-wai-afte4 a-light summer : breeze 'that fluttered a thousand flags :and banners the Union Jack-of Britain, and Stars and Stripes 'of America,' and - the simple V; red and white barred pennon ;, of - the ' District of Columbia, Co-lumbia, v ... - The day was :a". perfect jsettLr.s1 for such-ra spectacle -as America has never . seen;- r t , i j - ' , Picked detachments of the nation's na-tion's armed '.-forces army . bat-tallons.-' sailors, . , brenzed marine veterans, -; presented ; 'arms In gleaming ; array to honor th". visiting y royalty." Nearly 6,000 of them all wiihVbayonets fixed-lined fixed-lined the parade -route.- Back of them police faced Inward -toward the crowds, that 'pressed: against restraining, cables. - , ' . -Overhead - zoomed . 42 ; attack planes and 10 roaring . fortress bombers pride of the GHQ air force forming ' a- symmetrical band of -fighting wings across the sky.- 1 Hull, Is . Escort From near - the oak-studded capitol grounds," 30 light tank3 clattered and - chuffed Into the procession, a grim symbol of th mechanization of the ; forces i of with their majestieswas Sec re- ' tary lot tate Cordell Hull who ia3t night ' met ' the Zking and queen at Niagara Falls and welcomed wel-comed them -over thef invisible Y . It i " . At.'. 4 AAA T 1 frontier 'of the United States and Canada. . ' -r :y-:i-p::;: A double flanking honor, guard of -200 1 marines and 50 bluejackets bluejack-ets i was - drawn up across the high ' vaulted concourse of Union station and" the U.- S.v marine ' drum and bugle corps sounded ruffles -' and flourishes p.-..-;. In the blue-carpeted, - mahogany f ur-( ur-( Continued on Page Six) AUNT HET .- JBY ROBERT QUILLEN "It wasn t soberin' up. at ninety - six' 1 that . killed Grandpa . Rutlidge. . He s t a r t c d drinkin when Stonewall Jackson vas killed, kill-ed, -and when he come to and found out the Yankees had ', won,',. the shock " killed v x. |