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Show 7 The Weather ' TJTA1I Partially cloudy; little change in temperature, tonight and Thursday. Maximum temp. Tuesday ... 31 Mnlmum temp. TueIay ..... 7 Cr:.' i';c JcrW If yen I not ir-f ! vo your 11 rui l promptly, call The Herald fiu . 403, be fore 7 p.m. weeks day, fc.-wl 10 a. m.' 8 tin d:yK, find a copy wui be delivered to you. FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR; NO. 121 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY ROUTH OP SALT LAKJ PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939 Member Scrlpps Ltarui of Newspapers and N1UA PRICE FIVE CENTS Z2; 3 U r no a A A r o L y In La CHIT Worthy-of support is the 1940 "Fight Infantile Paralysis" Paraly-sis" campaign to, be held in Utah county, as well as throughout the nation, in January, for certainly money is needed to fight this scourge which stalks the land, crippling crip-pling and deforming bodies. The campaign will be in the form of a "march of dimes." and every person will be given opportunity to contribute. Concluding feature of the drive will be the annual President's Presi-dent's Birthday - ball, to be held late in January. .Businessmen, farmery, and everyone' in general welcomed wel-comed today's snowstorm, which applied touches of a genuine winter. Coming with the snort' were warmer temperatures, tem-peratures, and weather bureau bu-reau officials predicted the winter's first cold snap is on its way out of the intermoun- M lain region. That skating "is a popular pastime in Provo was manifest mani-fest in a big way at the North Park rink, last night. Five hundred and thirty children (by actual count) skated during dur-ing the 6 to 8 o'clock period, after which more than 200 adults took over. In order to add, a natural touch to' the rink, discarded Christmas trees .will be "planted" around the edges, according to Rink Manager C. Elmer Madsen. Which furnishes fur-nishes a pretty good avenue for Provoans to get rid of their evergreens following the holiday season. " : GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairi- By DSTW PHABSON aad nonrr.T s. allen Roosevelt Gives - Returning Congressional Leaders Pep Talk Against GOP; Earlier Thanksgiving Credited With 8 Increase'in Christmas Christ-mas Shopping; GOP Candidates Candi-dates Swarm For Landon's Favor, But He Still Has Not Chosen; U. S. Diplomatic Messages Guarded by Code That is Constantly Re vamped. A WASHINGTON Returning congressional leaders are getting a nudge and a promise In their private talks with the President. The nudge is fight talk against the GOP. Roosevelt Is telling his Capitol Hill lieutenants that the Democrats must assume a more "aggressive" attitude toward the Republicans. "Up and at 'em is his demand. "We don't' want them to get the jump on us at this session as they did-last year,", he told one leader. 11 "We should stick together to-gether ,andtake the offensive. They havent got anything. - All they have been doing Is to hammer ham-mer us. The thing for us to do now Is to give them a dose of their own medicine. -His promise was - that at the coming session he would "see more of the boys" and lend a more sympathetic ear s to their advice. In addition to the regular regu-lar Monday morning pow-wow with the floor leaders, he says he also plans to confer with committee com-mittee chairmen and the steering steer-ing committees on important measures. . SECRET CODES I - State Department officials are confident they have a code system sys-tem for transmission of super-secret super-secret messages which is. proof from detection. They are wei aware that the belligerents . bend every effort to break down foreign for-eign codes, and That ..the British, have a world-famous expert who (Continued on Page' Four) AKBELE BY ARUM Quake Reported; Most Severe Since That Of Year 1933 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 U.Pj An earthquake, believed thp strongest to shake south ern California since the big temblor of March 10, 1933, shook Los Angeles and vicinity vicin-ity at 11:29 a. m. today. The shake was most severe In the Long Beach-Compton-Watts area, following roughly the same lines as the quake of 1933 when hundreds - of persons were killed "and property damage-ran Into the millions. ' . ' , Long Beach reported the temblor temb-lor lasted 10 seconds and that the movement of the earth was north and south, then east and west. Chandeliers in Long Beach stores were loosened from ceilings and crashed to the floor. Electric light standards toppled into the streets in some places and plaster was cracked. . No material damage was reported re-ported however, and there were no casualties. Hundreds ran from their homes and offices into the streets in Long Beach. .' v ' At South Gate, police reported the police station .shook for 15 seconds after the 11:29 a. m. temblor. temb-lor. ' 1170 KILLED!! ... OGDEtl CRASHES OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 27 (ILE) Utah's traffic toll stood - at 158 today following an accident on the main highway near. Echo which snuffed out the life of Mrs. Dilla W. Hansen.. 67, Cheyenne, Wyo. Mrs. Hansen was rushed te a hospital here where she died of a broken back. .. She was riding in' a machine driven by.' her husband Henry M. Hansen.-near Echo when it. skidded skid-ded and overturned. Mr. Hansen was not injured. ; Mrs. Hansen's death followed immediately that of David Edward Wallwork of Ogden, 63, retired engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad, who was. injured seriously Saturday night when struck by an automobile while crossing- an Og den intersection. rs. deJorig flurt n Highway rash '- : . A : """Mrs. Rosabelle deJong, wife of Dean Gerrit deJong of -Brigham Young university, today was re ported In an "improved" condition at the Salt Lake general hospital, where she was taken last night following a two-car collision a mile south of - the' Draper crossroads cross-roads on highway 91. Mr. deJong suffered chest injuries in-juries and cuts and bruises, when the automobile she was riding in, driven by Mr. deJong, struck a stalled machine owned by - Enar Sund of Draper. y. Mr. deJong " and a daughter Carma Rose, escaped Injuries. Another An-other daughter. Mrs. Belle Van Wagenen, suffered minor ' face cuts. . . , ' v ;' ' Sheriffs officers reported the Sund machine had stalled on the highway and that Mr. deJong traveling south, failed to see the stalled automobile soon enough to stop his car on the slippery pavement. pave-ment. "''."', The accident-happened about 6 p .m and there were no lights on the Sund automobile, it was reported. re-ported. Oqming Events 20-SD Club Thursday. 8 p. in.. Riverside Cafe, installation of officers. of-ficers. . Provo Lodge 849, B. P. O. Elks - Thursday, 8 p. m., regular lodge. SONS OF LEGIONV Sons of the American Legion will bold a business r meeting tonight to-night at 8 o'clock at the Armory hall: All members are requested to be present. . . . . . . . ' . . ? LOS SI -' '- its mm Hitler on French Soil in Visit to Western Front Christmas day saw Adolf Hitler, above, chattin g with two soldiers on the front-line of the Western West-ern front crossing into French soil for the firs t time since 1918. This picture was made "at the front," presumably in the Spichern Heights secto r, . and radioed . from Berlin. (Acme Radio-Tele- photo).- ; ;; r,; : - " 'jj , 1 : ' ) ' r" " I . r ' ' - , ' flaw Sugar Setup Shargcd As Doing Unfair to "Farmer SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 26 U.E) President ?H. Ai". Behrilng,' of the United States Beet Sugar association, asso-ciation, today charged. Secretary of State Cordell Hull with 4 uis crimination against the American farmer" as a result of , reimposed sugar marketing quotas and . a new Cuban trade treaty. U:' President Roosevelt's announce' ment yesterday that ' sugar mar keting". quotas would be - resumed January 1, opened the trade gates to . "several hundredr thousand tons"' of Cuban raw sugar now in the United States not chargeable to the 1940 quota, he said. , The sugar is in bond on the eastern seaboard and can be released re-leased with payment of 90 cents a hundredweight duty. -' ' " , ' Reduction of ; tariff on Cuban sugar from $1.50 to 90 cents was made effective immediately by', a new treaty with Cuba while the sugar quota cannot become eifec tive until- Jan. 1. ' . . "Just why-the treaty did not provide for tariff reduction simul taneously with the reimpositlon of the quotas will perhaps never be J explained," Benning said. ". . . (it) is just another illustration of Sec retary '''Hull's discrimination against the American - farmers and in favor of--foreign- coun tries..." ;.:'- i -: ' -. The Cuban tariff was raised to $1.50 Sept. 11 at the same time American sugar quotas were discarded dis-carded because of heavy buying at the outbreak of European war. Benning predicted low- sugar prices in 1940 "unless excessive inventories are taken into consideration consid-eration in establishing sugar quotas for that year"- Thres Uejd for ; Orunhen Briuing Two Utah county drivers in city court today pleaded guilty to drunken driving and a "third, charged with the same offense, asked a preliminary hearing., : Rex Holm stead of Lehi arid Urban Overlade of Provo were sentenced to pay fines of $100 each or spend SO days in jail. Howard Webb of Payson ask ed preliminary hearing. He was chaTged with driving an automobile automo-bile in the Payson city limits while under the influence of intoxicat ing liquor. The complaint said Webb , had pleaded guilty to a charge of drunken driving in the justice's court of, Payson Novem ber 6. - NO IOWANIS MEETING There will be no regular meeting of Provo Kiwanis club Thursday. However, the board of directors and committee chairmen for 1940 will meet at Keeleys at noon. Any members who cannot attend the Klwanis party Thursday night should attend, the Keeleys meeting in order to keep, up their, attendance attend-ance record. :', ' - . Curtailment Asked By - Taxpayers Ai Hearing A reduction. of $13,000 to keep the Utah county budget within the 10-year average was suggested by the Utah Taxpayers, Tax-payers, associaUon,Jrej)reser.t ativets, one of thegroups meet-, ing with the county commission at Tuesday's budget hear- t ing.- UTAH COUNTY DEPUTY DIES .William" T. Lewis; . 52,: Utah county deputy, sheriff for nine years, died at 12;30 a. : m." today in the Veterans, hospital at Salt Lake City of complications which followed a major: operation three weeks ago. . ., ' ..". : - Mr Lewis : was : born ' June 6, 1887 in Albuquerque, New Maxlco, a son of John and Mary Ann Jones Lewis, He .' moved with his parents when a small boy to Rock-Springs, Wyo., then to Mer-cur, Mer-cur, Utah, and later to Goshen beforeX coming to Provo in .1930. He married Claudia White of Goshen! "March 15. 1910. , . - . Mr.r-Lewis was , appouited a deputy nine years ago r by : Sheriff Sher-iff E. G. Durnell, and was serving serv-ing 5 under Sheriff John S. Evahs at the time of. his death. ' i . He served one and a half years overseas- during the World war. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, - Eureka post, the American Ameri-can v Legion, Disabled American Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. - v ' . ; ' . . - , l ( Surviving are his widow; two sons, Daniel and Gordon, of Provo; his mother, Mary Ann Morgan, of Goshen; his father, John Lewis, Sunnyside; two brothers, Evelyn Lewis, SpringviUe, : and Edward Lewis, Lindon; and a sister, Sadie Cook, Goshen. .The body will be brought to Provo for funeral " services and burial.-- V '.. --L, ..... - Sixth Ward Dance - Set For Thursday Provo Sixth ward will stage a holiday dance -Thursday at 9 p.m. In the ward hall, with all members: mem-bers: and their friends invited. Dob Orton's orchestra will play. The dance is included in the budget bud-get program. Refreshments will be sold., STOCKS NEW YORK, Dec. 27- (V.R) Stocks, bonds and commodities declined de-clined today with share volume topping the million level for the first time since Dec. 13. i Losses in the main stock list ranged to almost 2 points. Steel shares were under most pressure." Most other groups held losses to fractions -: . Selling was ascribed to so-called year-end tax liquidation; to traders who had bought securities last week on the hope that a rally would be witnessed in the final week of the year, and to weakness in major staples ! i i il ; : v Other groups represented In j eluded the Utah County Farm Bu reau, school districts, and city council members. ' CurtaUment ? of - expenses was asked by ..the taxpayers ; association associ-ation and the farm bureau..; The city councils and . school districts asked for '. appropriations for a county nursing service. - V With M. H. Harris of Salt Lake City, the taxpayers'; statistician, as spokesman, the association recommended rec-ommended the i f ollowing department depart-ment cuts for 1940, figured on the basis of the 10-year average. Ret corder, $1900 sheriff, $3400; feeding' feed-ing' prisoners .' at - the county jail, $900;. treasurer. $2500; clerk". $1400; - auditor, $1000; assessor, $4300. A cut of $20,000 from, the $44,000 set up for hospital, infirmary infirm-ary and' medical care was also recommended, . -. Proposed Figures ';. V The . proposed - budget total as set by the commissioners is $484,-609.25, $484,-609.25, which is a $46,961.71 increase in-crease over that of 1939. ! John O. Beesley. Provo . cham-( cham-( Continued On Page Eight) . L.D.S. Church Has 2100 Missionaries Working in Field SALT LAKE Cn Dec. 27 (U.E) Despite the fact that all mission aries have been withdrawn " from Europe's war - zones, the Latter-day Latter-day Saints church still has . about 2100 workers in mission fields, church authorities reported today. to-day. ' , .-. .-. " The . missionaries, almost; as many as were in the field last year are laboring in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii the two American continents and South Pacific islands. . UTAH STATE EMPLOYES Utah State Employes, Chapter one, local 50, wai meet tonight at 7:30 in the labor temple. Cs- Seeley Back With His Back in Provo with his dog "Tuck,' Movell - Seeley. blind salesman, has nothing but praise for the Seeing Eye Institute of Morristown. New Jersey. And "Tuck" has nothing but praise for Provo, his new adopted home. "Tuck" came in by express this morning, ate a hearty breakfast and was taken out for a walk by Mr. Seeley. who arrived from the east last night. , "It's great to be home, but I'mJ sorry I spent ; Christmas travel ing,"- said Mr Seeley. He explained J RC3SEVELT H01TS FOR 1 i 6 B Tax Revenue Would Be x Third Largest In Experience By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U.R)-President Roosevelt was believed today to be budgeting budget-ing for a federal treasury income in-come : of $6,000,000,000, or more for the next, fiscal year in expectation of continued business improvement. " Tax revenue at the $6,000 000,-000 000,-000 level would be the third largest" larg-est" in treasury experience, exceeded ex-ceeded only by the fiscal V years 1920 and 1938. The indicated upward trend In federal income Is accompanied by reports of budget-paring and consideration con-sideration of new tax levies at the White House. The whole fiscal outlook of course, depends upon the future course of business ac tivitv re-employment and na tional" defense, developments. Estimated Income- Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins estimates national in come during the 1939 calendar year aggregated $68,500,000,000, an increase of $4,500,000,000 over tne, , national income last year. Even half that improvement next year would raise ; the national income in-come figure-the sum representing represent-ing the. whole nation's productive earnings to something over $70,-000,000.000 $70,-000,000.000 for the 1940 calendar year. .., -. ' ; : Mr. Roosevelt roughly estimated In ' his las VTsudgeE" message r"that existing tax rates would obtain $6,000,000,000 for the treasury when national income reached $70,000,000,000. That Income would be provided from these sources: s ' , CoTXrate and -. indi- - vidual , income - taxes $2,500,000,000 Miscellaneous internal" inter-nal" revenue . . .'. ; .'. 2-200,000,000 Customs I.: ..'.. .J. -400,000.000 Miscellaneous re- v-; . v ceipts ." 200,000.000 Payroll ' taxes '. v . ' . ' 700,000,000 In addition to Income expectable from existing tax rates, Mr. Roose velt is represented as considering special ' national defense taxation to raise $500,000,000. Increases in middle bracket - individual income (Continued on Page Eight) Diss fjornmiifes Planning Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U.E- Members of the Dies committee were reported in disagreement today over: the report . they will make to congress when it meets next Wednesday. 1 ' Chairman Martin L. Dies, D., Tex., who is resting at his home at Orange, Tex., has circulated a tentative , draft of the report among members by mall. One member, it was learned. objected to the emphasis placed on certain Communist activities, and, expressed belief the1 commit iee; - snouia mane specific recommendations re-commendations for legislation, The report as now drafted con tains no such recommendations. Another member indicated he wanted to suggest some;hanges. M Under the resolution authorizing authoriz-ing the investigation into un-American un-American activities the commit-: tee is called on to . submit - a report re-port to congress not later than Jan. 3. , " Dies has a resolution pending for another continuance, which he expects to win overwhelming ap proval. From the East "Seeing Eye" Dog he left Morristown December 23 so "I could spend the big day with my family." but was held up 48 hours by bad weather enroute. "Tuck" was shipped by express with "special orders" to watch his diet. To keep his waistline, he is allowed but two meals a day, consisting con-sisting of one and one-quarter pounds of beef and the trimmings. Mr. Seeleya attending the Seeing See-ing Eye Institute was made possible pos-sible through large contributions by the Provo Lions club, which has as one of its projects aiding the blind. ovieii iLosces KeooFteo . Jam if ILsJ 300,000 Soviet Soldiers Massed On Central and Northern Fronts; Russia Fails in , Attempt' To Cross Icy Lake Bulletin: WITH FINNISH ARMIES, ON THE SALLA FRONT, Dec. 27 U.R) Finnish military officials announced today that munitions of German origin had been captured when -Russian forces were thrown back toward the Soviet frontier at the Arctic Circle. V The German-origin munitions were captured when the Russians fell back after failing in their first effort to cut across the narrow "waist" of mid-Finland, the linns F-xtid. Reports today indicated that the Soviet forces were preparing prepar-ing for another and perhaps bigger thrust I , ; , By JOE ALEX MOHKIS . United Tress Foreign News Editor Finnish troops claimed today to have turned back still another Red army thrust on the Karelian Isthmus, but 300,-000 300,-000 Russian soldiers were reported massed on the central and northern fronts for another offensive. 'Hour by hour the Soviet Union appeared to be calling more, of its vas military power into play against the Finnish defenses and the cold of the Arctic Circle. Planes Bomb Gulf ' ; 0 Russian planes bombed the Gulf FDR, Church s Pease Moves' Washington; Dec. 27 u.d-- President Roosevelt today discuss ed.. ways to restore peace in the world with leaders of the Protestant Pro-testant and Jewish churches, who said after the meeting that they owuldremaln.""on call for furth er conferences." , - , 1 .The resident had a lencthv meeting with Dr.k George 'A. But-trick, But-trick, president' of the Federal Councu of Churches of Christ in America, and ' Dry Cyrus Alder, president of the "Jewish Theologi- car Seminary of America. , Mr. . Roosevelt has-been assured by His Holiness Pop Pius XII that the Holy See also . will cooperate in parallel efforts - to bring about peace and alleviate suffering. No specific peace moves ap peared ; to be in prospect here at the moment, however. The president was heartened by reports, that the Italian government govern-ment and the Holy See also had reached an agreement for parallel paral-lel peace -endeavors. . "We discussed generally all the issues obviously Involved," Dr. Butterick said. "I don't think we can say anything more now. Any further ' statement should come from the president. I. think probably prob-ably he will have something more to say." Dr. Adler added "we are all in agreement." His comment that the president and the church leaders agreed was taken as a reply to criticisms from some church quarters over the president's designation of a personal per-sonal representative to the , Vatican Vati-can to help solidify the peace efforts ef-forts of all religious agencies. tits BORN Boy, to William and Wilma Jackson Simmons, Utah Valley hospital, this morning. v . Girl, to Morris and Dorothy Chlpman Wiscombe, today, at the home, 142 South Ninth ... West street. .. : LICENSED TO MAURY Dennis Patrick O'Neill, 33 American Fork, and Grace Affleck 34, Provo, married Tuesday night by county clerk. . David Sterling Jones, 22, Spanish Span-ish Fork and Dorothy Fern Pul-ver, Pul-ver, 21, Payson, Wednesday. Harry Otto Eller, ,24, Provo and Ruby Partridge, 19, Duchesne, married by county clerk, Wednesday. Wednes-day. , Reed Smoot, 20. Trovo, and Stella Madsen, 20, Provo, today. Frank Thomas Ellertsen, 20, Chicago, and Beth Marie Krucgcr, 23, Spanish Fork, Tuesday. Wlllard Norman Shell, 22, Pi-oche, Pi-oche, Nev., and Mary Fawn Davis, 16, Salem, married by, county clerk Tuesday. Don Adelbert Roundy, 18, and Iris Estella Norwood, 17, Maple- ton, married by county clerk, Tuesday. Leadet Map Bay AFP IT oeaw ac of Finland coast again and unloaded un-loaded explosives on Kemf jaervl, on the north central front. Leaflets, Leaf-lets, were dropped calling on the Finns to "rebel, cease resistance, and join your Russian friends." Planes and artillery continued to pound at the ecarred and evacu-ptd evacu-ptd citv of Vilpurl (Viborr). Crack Jicd army troops were imported im-ported moved to the eastern Finland Fin-land front. Come of the officers commanding Cossack rep! ment' were reported to be pcronl friends of Josef V. Stalin. On the Karelian Isthmus, Where an official Finnish communique com-munique had said 700 were killed in a vain attack over Lake Suvan-to, Suvan-to, the Russians tried a new maneuver ma-neuver in an effort to cross the icy lakes and smash the Finnish left flank. Red Loe Troops. The attack failed, the Finns reported, re-ported, and the Russians lost many troops as Finnb.h machine guns swept the ice and artillery cracked the frozen lakes. On the eastern front, where the Finns had reported killing 2.000 Russians in a counter-attack that retook the towns of Aginjacrvi and Talvajervi there were indication indi-cation of preparations for new thrusts by the Russians, who reportedly re-portedly outnumber the Finn.i 3 to one between Lake Ladoga and the Arctic coast. One important point at which the oviet forces seemed to bo preparing for a new attack wu in the Salla sector, on the north central cen-tral front, where the Finn said the enemy had been pushed back 53 miles and had lost 6 000 dead (Continued on Page Eight) Pardoe to Head State Society SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 27 U'I' Dr. T. Earl Pardoe of Provo was elected president of the Utah society of the Sons of the American Amer-ican Revolution at a meeting lant night. Stewart P. Dobbs of Odrn and Adrian VV. Hatch of Lojran were named to the board of managers. Dr. A. L. Curtis, Payson, was named an honorary vice president. rs AUNT IIET itlKHit ain't wliiit raaU H j ou worrj'. Vou Jtist j: t t.'.e habit o ttorryln', J " I t: you worry aleout ceryl-'.hv you I..-.;?;en to know -!ut." |