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Show f - f 11 T TJr Iff i 1 I The Weather :i: ..Unsettled tonight and rJay, probably hliowerH and ierstorins. 'Coder northwest m tonight. ' . - .-. "temp., TiiunwLiy 97 , tem;i., Thursdjy 43 TYxTHIRD YEAR, NO. r J 7 wot To -Senate; Action U k V'"' ' - ' v , " -,: : ' , y ' ' " )mpromise Afirrement Approved by House Jobs Provided For Two Million in y Amended Bill Awaitinicr Action ' v- " United Press Correspondent - , x , WASHINGTON, June 30 u.R) -The house to-y to-y approved a compromise '. agreement pn the $1,-5,600,000 $1,-5,600,000 relief bill for 1940 and rushed it to the .iate for action before the fiscal year ends at mid- I ,! ;ht The house vote was 321 to 23. ( The senate was expected to act during the late ternoon or tonight to send ihe bill to President : ,osevelt for signature and makejunds available y- y finance WPA during; the fiscal MERRY . Daily plcTure of What's Going Oh in National Affairs v 1 By DUE W PEARSON and X ROBERT S. ALLEN cific Navy Likely To Sail Quietly To Hawaii as ,Warn: ing To Japan; Japanese Indignities In-dignities To U. Citizens Years Ago May Be Revealed: Re-vealed: State Department Aims To Publish Reports oD193Zw Nanking IncMenU -Still iore Louisiana. .Gratt Charged in Unemployment Pension System-N : , VASinNGTON The -que'sUon aendlng the U. S. fleet now ttoned on the -Pacific Coast; to wall . has ' beenunaer v""-tial v""-tial consideration In highest Tters ' V -' u -v " ehind. the proposal obviously he desire to oacK up ojpiw" s. to Tokyo with more than e diplomacy .mk .wb r- ta the liritish. The plan lid r b-" to send the fleet no :herx than Pearl Harbor, -but ! is expected to havfa salutary ct upon the Japaneie, who not id to twist the British Uon s but don't want to cope with :j. naval might simultaneously 'i Wan also would be to tjrstns- th fleet very quietly, one ip at a time, without . toomuch belng made about it. Silent, vplalned - ;shlp V movements ht . make a r. lot stronger im-sion im-sion on foreign navies than e accompanied by spectacular - te House announcements. JAPANESE I&PIGNITJES The State-Department has-been rying on vsome diplomatic or-;ondence or-;ondence with Japan regard- publication of "American pro's pro-'s oyer the treatment of Amer-; Amer-; citizens when -Nanking was upied nearly two years agd. he protests 'show that Amer-: Amer-: citizens then were subjected some brutal Wnhahdllng by , Japanese, - perhaps worse it that given the British around r.tsin today. - , viite naturally Japan doesn't it the correspondence publish- However, the State juepaix.- 1 1 nmhablv will go ahead any- y, at least Nto the " extent of Uahing the American , Consul's rts to the State Department, rinued on page 3, Section ; 2' jgan T.lan Bi 'no riom Orin Dullsi OGAN," Utah. June SO UE ,er Grover South, , -28, died xy as a result of two buiret. unds, which , Cache , County riff Jeff Stowell . said were Mnriicted. Yiends ! said , South " had com-ned com-ned vof illness the last two Sheriff Stowell -said -today th drove his automobile out Valley View highway; today, : ped just west of the Logan:, ; limits and ' shot himself ;-e.". Stowell said the shooting was witnessed from distance by " three meVi. No Inquest , was planned, ' 4 . ? . . : 252 ' JSgSa SRS I PROVO, stiedr: By-Midnight wav which beeins-t 12:01 a. m tomorrow. All WPA workers, however, will be on holiday until Jul 5: . . The bill carries $1,477,000, to provide . Jobs for a rough average av-erage of 2.000.000 relief cUents during the fiscal year. WPA dur Ing this fiscal year received $2,- 250,221,000 for an approximate average of 3,000,000 workers. WorkUnder Pressure- Senate i and- house conferees, working uer'Preiautrrteed on the compromise lasiv nigni, abolishing Afederal theater pro j- ectst but accedingxto some other major administrationrequesta. r$125,000,000 earmarked for PWA neavy . curusirucuun oy iwuae, continuation -of i the tone-mahAiid- minlstration of WPA "andv junking the house ptan'for a three-man administrative -boardA and set- tingt';S52,000?,the1fiamuxnied? eral : contribution . for ' non-federal projects. 'V v As the 'WPA bill, headed tender pressure for final- approval, the h6use .judiciary committee favor- ably" reported the senate-approved Hatch bill, 'establishing impressive barriers against politics in WPA oif , among federal administrative employes, ' Locked in the committee for monthsrthe bill forbids federal administrative ad-ministrative ' employes to engage in national political campaigns and bans any promise; of compen sation r employment in return for politicafactivity or solicita tion of campaign funds from persons per-sons ori relief rolls. . The ''order of WPA . Admin- " tmue on PaSe Two) Who wants to be Ferdin- and the' Bull? That'S the problem facing Chairman Jacob Coleman and his comic division jjarade committee who are advertising adver-tising -for 60 Boy Scouts, between - the ages of 14 and 18, and 15 girls, 15 and 18 years bf age, to wear "silly billy" " costumes in JErovo's July 4 parade. Thoselvho want toNget to the fun of "show life" can make 'arrangements at the Central - school building Saturday Sat-urday afternoon, Mr. Coleman Cole-man said. Hey Newv Clubhouse Ready for Opening AA Provo's community clubhouse at scheduled v Saturday, nigb, .' 'i : it r 3 Z Z3 LEAVE; JENSEN ACTING HEAD B. Y. 4 U. President Gets Appointment To Persia Post . Distinct honor has come to Brigham Young uni versity " and - the entire state witH the appoint ment- of Dr. Franklin S. rarris, president of, .the university to serve the government of Iran (Persia) in , reorganizing the ; department de-partment of agriculture in that country. ' ( a : . . v . Approved Today " The executive committee of the Brigham Young university board f trustees and the I. D. S. church presidency approved President Harris leave at a meeting in Salt Lake City today- v . : At the same time. Dr. Christen Jensen, dean of the B. Y. Urgradi-uate Urgradi-uate school, was appointed, acting president. ..... . ', , . President Harris was recommended recom-mended for thercommissidn under the Persian government' by the American Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture and the Departmentror State, being-selected for his outstanding leadership, qualifications ' in- the field and ysst. experience-. experience-. ; Persia is one of the oldest countries, coun-tries, -being known - for its ancient art, literature, tc; In rl926 4 new Pshah , came . into power,- and is e4rgapizlngwthe country. i rile wants agriculture - reorganized by an American the American way. ; PresidentxHarris and his wife will leave in the immediate future. They will travel through Europe en route going through Germany, Poland and Russia, -They will sail from Baku in Russia by way of the Casabean sea, and will, settle in Teheran, the Persian . capital, a cityvOf 400,000. f iV . President and Mrs. Harris will be gone 1et ween six-months and a, year. . ' - C V ' Expect President To Sin Bill for Mine Assessments WASHINGTON. June 30 (UJJ The-president is expected to sign before midnight -a bill by Rep. Abe Murdock, D., Utah, designed to save the legal life of hundreds hun-dreds of unworked mining claims. - . . r"- The ; present law requires that $100 t worth, of .labor orJUnprove-ments orJUnprove-ments shall be . invested in any claim for, which a patent has not yet been - issued. The fiscal yoar during which such work nwst , have been performed, ends at midnight. Murdock'sbill gives minersuntil Octxi to get started start-ed on"-the necessary work or improvements. Claims will expire on that date unless there is evidence evi-dence the work - has been commenced, com-menced, "in good faith" and will be "prosecuted with reasonable diligence to completion.0. 51 T5I the municipal golf course, scene ARRS GElS UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, n r V, CHRISTEN JENSEN FRANKLIN S. HARRIS BANKER SPEAKS TO ROTARIANS , Conditions , in America,, have come tp- the point where a- man's word ' is not as good as itr:iised to be. Laws extreme laws; have been enacted : that are but- txiens Ito business, and- yet. there Is no substitute for honesty, ..virtue, ..vir-tue, dependability. . " , ' . So declared Henry A. Gardner of . Spanish Fork, in addressing the Provo Rotary club at their luncheon this afternoon on the subject, "Can a Man Jbe a Christian Chris-tian and a. Businessman at the Same Time?"' ? Businessmen., are b2ing condemned con-demned unfairly as " crooks, etcL, Mr. Gardner said, and 'yet when people come to know the, average businessman they will find. he 13 a prettyr decern "person. - , -.- c "The idea that 1 the world1 owes every man a living is growing,7 Mr. Gardner stated. . "I v do-Vnot believe 'that the world - owes any man a living without anr effort on his part to earn "it; . ; V , Mr. Gardner , deplored,, the idea of s over-buying -on the' part of the customer and over-selling, on the part of the x businessman. (Continued on Page -Eight) Dance; Saturday x ?5 i ' of the 'housewarming" . dance Acting "r7 ; mi RACE HAY PEN RES Provo -.XAwaiti) Throngs r, . As 4-Day Celebra- r. . . - non ue mini A ; .Provo lays down the welcome -mat tomorrow to , thousands . of visitors ii um viie , entire,, ouitt; ca- pedted ' to attend the" city's gigantic :, four-day Fourth ofcJuly f celebration Satur day: through ' Tuesday: " - On - the .eve of - the fiesta,' of-Jiclals of-Jiclals report all details in preparation prep-aration : have teen completed, it's now up; to Old Man Weather, and theVT.crowds to "come through" favorably,,. r.:-i, ; iVCommittee'men predicted today to-day the celebration will attract more people than have ; witnessed any previous fiesta in this city, provided good, weauier continues. Program In t Detail " -Program .for the four . days is as follows: Saturday Horse racing rac-ing at Utah county fair grounds at2.,p; ; jm.-and i children's " fish grab, at Pioneer park at 3 p. m. Sunday BoatV racing, at. Utah lake at '1 ;30 p. and baseball game, Provo. vs. Helper, at ;Timp parkS :30 . p. in. Monday Horse racing .'at the fair grounds and children's swimming at ; North" park at. 2 p. m., free -street dance at 8;30 p. , m.,I at. First J. East .and Center' streets. Tuesday-Down-, town parade at 10 a: r m. horse rices' at' the fair rtoui ids and and I 'ti ilureirdrpcrti atNorthp"ark a t atB. Y.nr, -stadium" at; "7:30 p.m., - - ' .Throughout; the. .four days, Monte Young's carnival will ? operate- in - the heart ; of the' city. : The ('horse.races at the fair grounds .promise -to be one of the outstanding features of :the celebration, cele-bration, tyith thoroughbreds from four states entered. " . Chairman. G. W.. McLennan "of the ' committee in s charge assures a thrilling program, and ' those fans who are not at present ; enthusiastic en-thusiastic - about - racing will Vibe after seeing one performance,: he said. ' ' - A " Boat races at Utah lake are expected to attract between five and 10 thousand, and twice that many probably will witness the parade Tuesday. Chairman D. Eldort Beck of the parade reports more than. 30 floats will - be in the procession. (Continued; on Page Two)' NATIONAL LEAGUE . Cincinnati 010 00 - - Chicago : ., .020 00 1' ' Vandermeer, ? Moore and Lorn-bardi; Lorn-bardi; Rooti and Hartnett. ; A - .": Boston at. New York,' postponed; postpon-ed; rain. . . r Philadelphia at . Brooklyn, night game., . . .' , , . ' . Only games scheduled. ' AMERICAN LEAGUE p . New York 1 ' Washington ...,.0 ' ' (Time called; rain Hildebrand and Dickey; Carras-quel Carras-quel and Ferrell. . : t ,- T Chicago ....,. ,'.001 00 . Detroit- . . . . 201 00 Rlgney rand Tresh ; Newsom and Tebbett.s - - Philadelphia- at Boston, postponed; post-poned; -rain. " , St. Louis at Cleveland," postponed; post-poned; . rain. n Ik Today Ticket Stubs Must-Be & Returned Monday Nooti ' .Ticket stubs for the Fourth of July automobile gift presentation at the' B. ,Y. U. stadium must be brought ; from the stores to the big..wheel of fortune," on the Provo Commercial and Savings bank corner,, not; later than Lion-day, Lion-day, July 3, at 1 p. m., announces Sidney iW;' Russell, chairman of the stadium show committee, today. to-day. . .' ' A "receptacle will be provided at the ' corner for individuals who received tickets after Llonday - 1939 vlLy :- . ZH'L a ' : A ' -r . J-J i: : : ':; - NO MONK Testifying ' in his own behalf, 4 playboy William P. Buckner. Jr. defended his 'whoopee" parties lor Washington legislators, saying say-ing he didn't think he "had to become a monk" in his efforts to lobby Philippine bond legislation - through Congress. He is on trial ; in New York on charges of fraud. U. S. Mission TIENTSIN, June SO" (XJ.E) A Japanese ; plane bombed and . set fire to the American mission union high school at Fopchow, dispatches said today ; as the 'British gunboat Grasshopperlanded 36 bluejackets at . the blockaded ' port to protect Britlsh 'property.' -v . . 'inev jap'aneae pianea - iie w: - -iow over - the . mlssiom which displayed twd big American flags as . a signal sig-nal to airplanes, the dispatches said.' ;' . .- .- . One bomb struck the west corner cor-ner of the school and set fire to it. Most of the building was destroyed, destroy-ed, It .was said. . ' "' . -.'. . Dr. A. W. Billings and his. wife, the only Americans at the school, were reported unharmed. It v was believed . they and others were taking shelter in -dugouts.- . The bombing was part of a heavy Japanese aerial bombardment bombard-ment of the center of Foochow. Other planes bombed inland ports and , Chinghal: port of Ningpo up the coast. , . , American consulate general officials of-ficials at Shanghai were-understood to be drafting a protest4 to the Japanese against the bombing of the mission schooL Blbotl noorou ..V Allpn roGl :ibr; Hen State Prlcon SALT LAKE CITY, June .30 ; (DJi)-HQov. Henry H. Blood, .today was negotiating f t or purchase - of the " J. , R. Allen tract near the point of the mountain- for, a ' new Utah. state prison site; '. The Allen tract1 was recommended recom-mended to the governor by the prison' removal ; commission; after a Taylorsville. site had been rer jected because" of opposition from residents- of . that section. .. "i The new site" will be purchased by a $100,000 appropriation made by the 1937 legislature, which would have lapsed at . midnight have lapsed tonight , if the governor had not chosen a site- " - . I After the prison has been re-1 moved from its present location near 'Susrarhouse. the land oniiures to a total oi;zou,uuu over wihch it is situated will be sub divided ;into residential lots. , . noon, to , remain there until Tuesday, Tues-day, July. 4, "at 5 p.' m. From 5 until the time of the distribution, distribu-tion, there will be a box for this purpose at the gates of the B.Y.U. stadium. .. , ', ' . Le' Roy J. . Olsen will be in charge of the ticket selling crew and : gatemen at the stadium. Assisting As-sisting him will be Alma Danger-field, Danger-field, Dan Lewis, T. Will Jones, William R. Green, Clyde Crockett, John J. Barker, O. W. Bybee, Jay Schofield, William Wilson an4 Ted Maynard, ; UTAirS ONLY DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKE R fnnn .1 reaswF City Commission Takes Action at "Surprise" Meeting Thursday Afternoon; Plans, ; . ; .Specifications rior Plant Arrive ' -:' v' v.'. 'ilmportant action towards consummating their avowed program of launching a city-owned munci-pal munci-pal power and distribution sjstem, Tas taken by the city xcommissiori'at a '"surprise" meeting held Thursday; Thurs-day; afternoon a with representatives of the Nuveen Bonding company of Chicago and the Ulen Constmc-tipnKcbmpanyresent Constmc-tipnKcbmpanyresent to supervise the transaction. ?fevFollowing : the : meeting: i the - Chicago bonding company deposited 850,000, proceeds of the voter-approved voter-approved bond issue, to the city's account in the First National Bank of Chicago. ' k Simmons in Chicago- . ; , : ' ' .' Exchange of the issue of four and one-h alf per cent electric revenue bonds' for; the ' $850,000 was consummate d ; this morning ' by City. Treasure r A 1 m o B. Simmons of Provo.and Nuyeen officials in Chicago, Chi-cago, according to Mayor Mark Anderson. . - . ; The fixiayorSwas assured ibjr,bothi; Mr-Simmons and C. Wkaihg com- Eany by telephone this morning that the bonds had eenjdeliveredlandv'thembhey deposited. '"We are taking the bonds because we have faith in Provo city ahiitsToffici Bonds Sijrned Saturday r; - v':.; -: - 0 Mayor Anderson said the.borid had been signed fbjrthercity -commission lastrSaturday:.r,He"'ai(lr llr; Simmons, auer delivering me Donas to iNuveen, paiu Ulen Contracting company, which, has an office in Chicago, $35,000 for the detailed plans and specifications specifica-tions -for v the municipal plant . and distributing system sys-tem "which were delivered to City Recorder I. G. Bench Thursday.' : " --" - j - ' " '-" The plans and specif icatio'ns:are: complete, and President Henry C 'Ulen and G. E.- Hines . of the Ulen rcompany were to be here: today to make plans for, setting up an, office,. the mayor said, - 'v ; Next procedure, according to' Mayor Anderson, wilt be to ask for proposalsand bids .from manufacturers manufac-turers and, contractors for materials, equipment and construction of -the various. parts of thie system. 1 ' ... .. " " ', -.. 1 ; . 11 The. Ulen contract crovidea that Frapehisb Vote To Gome Later .-The franchise election, . together with other , issues arising " out of the - opposition to. the city ownership owner-ship move, will, have to be disposed Of. according . to supreme court orders; or-ders; not later than the next city election to -November. :xi-y.''tS-The petitions . presented by the citizens' committee : asking ' . for an election .on the franchise, car- nea ine names or zyuu irrovo citizens when it was filed with the county clerk for checking. -. In." the .proposed . 10-year franchise fran-chise renewal, the (Utah . Power and Light company: is required to pay a franchise tax of one per cent of .the gross revenue, : not less than- $2500 per year. . -. In ai supplemental agreement. the company further binds - itself to an ' improvement program; including in-cluding the expenditure of $100,-000, $100,-000, during -the first year pf the .life of the new franchise, of which 40,000 . Is to be . for local laDor. . The company also agreed: to f raise the ; improvement expend!- the first few. years, i . This program was ": proposed, to include renovating- the. company -facilities in Provo, removal of poles from the principal streets, and the revamping revamp-ing of. the distribution system, in the city. - ' : . -. ...' ; .The, method .of handling of the franchise election will pfrobably depend on the outcome of expected expect-ed action by the power company, in the way of Injunctions against the ' city,; possiby restraining city ofifcials from proceeding temporarily; tempor-arily; ;s, :. '- :':. . . Shoplifter Airested; Wants To Exchanire BERKELEY, Calif., June SO (HE) Mrs. Maud Thompson 49, of Oakland, was in jail today because she returned to a department store to exchange a' pair of shoes she allegedly had stolen there. If you do not receive yc-jr I promptly, call The IlersJM , 493, bet ore 7 p.m. ek tLiys, en J 10 a. in. SurLdays, and a cc?y v,L"l be delivered to you. PRICE FIVE CENTS XT I ii I ' ;ir' JUL local. men' and contractors will be used .wherever; possible, May of Andefeon. said, . ; ; ..Acquiring of . the ,$550,000 art 3 paying of the Ulen company followed, fol-lowed, on the heels of a city commission com-mission meeting Thursday night, attended by the : commissioners, City . Recorder L. G. -Bench, City Attorney I E. Brockbank, City Engineer .E. Ai Jacob, City Auditor Audi-tor ilary. F. Smith, Mr. Ilines of the Ulen company and J. A. Hatter, Hat-ter, of the. Nuveen company legal Staff. '-'V-':' - - Recessed Sleeting 'Commissioners said .they didn't adjourn their Thursday morning-session," morning-session," ..but ; merely . recease awaiUng the arrival of the Nuveen and - Ulen , representatives. Although. Al-though. pres3 representatives had not been apprised of the meeting', the . commissioners declared the meeting was public, and that the doors of. the -commission chamber were open. - 1 . . Ordinances . J?assed , The city .; commission at the 'm (Continued on Page Six) ... . AUNT HET ,BV ROBERT tiCILLEN' "Amy Eaw a mag-sxLaa article sarin'. discontent makes peopla get fat, but it don't sound ser..lMe. Why would they get e -pec Lolly discontented In ths miidla?" fl mmL V |