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Show Call The Herald If yua da not weir ytrar neraJ3 promptly, emil Tb Herald office, 405. before 7 p. to. week day, axwl 13 am. Sundays, and & wpy wi3 be delivered to yea. The Weather UTAH: Partly clondy tonight and Wednesday, slightly colder northwest north-west portion tonight. Maximum temp., wionday .... 62 Minimum temp., Monday .. . 21 FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 168 UTAH'S O.VLT DaILT SOUTH OF 8 ALT JLK-B PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, MARCH; 5, 1940 . . . ; . pnupi ttv. rrwrrcn press PRICE FIVE CENTS TKJJEORAFH NEWS 8ERV1CM nn I MAT j ; o& :o 111 - - -v - uja T . . - . ry. DESK 1 1 j 1 1 J 2Jl1uL VX VN- kJ L.m Li ( 13 l Kls J 0 DP Orem, Provo's neighbor on the north, has shown a really remarkable growth in the last five years, not only in extent of its area, but in population and development of community com-munity spirit. &s well. This choice fruit growing district is gaining in popularity as a residential section. Quite a number of wage earners and salaried men who work in Provo. have located their .home3 inside of the Orem township boundaries and are - becoming active in the promotion promo-tion of community activities there. Already. Orem has become the largest town in the state in area and is forging ahead rapidly in poulation, as well. Trie town now extends irom the foothill on the east to the edge of the bench on the west, and north and south. across the bench from past the Provo canyon road to the first dugway .above Provo. The Lincoln high school which serves the district is now the largest of four in the Alpine district and one of the three largest in the county. Biggest factor in the devel opment of the PwOsalawrt recreational rec-reational community center near the Lincoln high school has been the SCERA (Sharon Stake Educational and Recreational Recre-ational Association) and its tapable manager, Victor C. Anderson. Chief project already al-ready under way 13 the Shar-)n Shar-)n auditorium to cost $70,000 sr.J to. be used as a community commun-ity 'center' for" ail civic and church activities of the Orem district. -.. " - - ODD NO'S In Tuli-x, Okla. Rosanner Speights, Co. married Ulysses Grant, DO. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. ' Said the Lride: "A preacher asked rr.e why I ret married so tie 1940 census. r nT.4 y,m tK. rirA CT. airman Joiah Lord kept taking 'era, and. I too." POSITION gaining in CENSUS MOVE Senate Committee Poll Show. 10 to 20 For Changes BULLETIN" WASHINGTON', Starch 5 tUP President Roosevelt declared de-clared today that opposition to particular questions In the census la obviously a political move and 1 recognized a such by everyone la congress. WASHINGTON, March 5 (U.pj A poll of the full senate commerce committee revealed today that 10 of its 20 members mem-bers favored the resolution of Sen. unarles W. Tobey, R., N. II., to put the senate on record in opposition to questions ques-tions concerning personal income In the 1940 census. The United .Press poll of committee com-mittee members, who consider the resolution today, showed 10 for it. six against it, three who re fused to commit themselves, and one absent from the city. The four doubtful members, if all of them oppose it. would produce & tie and defeat the resolution. To bey's resolution, approved yesterday, three to two, by a com merce subcommittee, would not eliminate the disputed questions, but senate approval of it un doubtedly would result in eiimina' tioa of them by the census bu reau. -. . During the brief session. Clark tokf the committee if It delayed action much longer, the census would be underway and there would be no chance to eliminate the disputed questions. Census takers start work April 2. WASHINGTON. March 5 crPi The senate commerce committee robed 10 to 5 today to postpone for a weeic consideration of a resolution expressing disapproval cf perscTJd income questions. In She Really Married Her Boss) .ME FIMS FAVORED FOR DEER CREEK Final Bulletin s I -' I Peggy Dowd. "Tommy, Corcoran'a secretary in Washington, who married her boss in a surprise weddine at LeesUirer. Va.. Monday. Teiephoto. . - . , .. . - : MERRY GO-ROUND A IIIr Pktura cf What Geirj On la NtlonaJ Affair i ry naxw rtjuLMon m InIdi Stcry cf Welles HUslon Izl.czlcs U. S- Effort At -E:;u;acr lightning ?!ar.?uvers To Consult Neu- tra-U CAurht Dir-'omats by Ihun rie ; Vu -Utivea of Eccn- f.rjy Advocates Mushroom On the Ccr.grcicnaJ Tay-roU; Tay-roU; "Pa" Watscn. rre-'i-din:' Scrttary: Bet IZZ0 His Boss WiU Run Agaln. WAS H1NGTON NiXAsra fire t.-.t wztis a rrv wuri ti tiie UTTr- i rTJ4..:n "titiXrUc." cr "-;Mlr j wir." Ar. i j tie u-4f stsry cf Tjxrt'.v sud-C:i.i--!t to sd tT."iT Secretary Sec-retary of State Surjir WUs ta Eurcp jrad-jay trgta. it aPrs certala Uvat it will ro Co-a-a Li fcutory aa an effort at a "XL.trpc." It a be rtcaHei that the r?ier.t a.-.rur.ced the Welles It;? ca a Friday morrd-g. Secretary Sec-retary liuU irasied-ately there-aTter there-aTter tajed a stateme&t cf his t-M that h bad txrun eonTer-li.,r.M eonTer-li.,r.M wit! "neutral jrotrern-jr.'-ts" ca the prob'.errj cf trade a.-.l dJarrraer.t s"Jre to tolUiW tie war. Tt.tr u no Location who the "jsetraia"' were, and the U;-i-rtes cf cyaUT.ed r.rwixen were met with a wail cf alienee tj:h Ms continued to t-Ms day. Tc reason no names were jlvea cut was that the "eonver-ili:rji "eonver-ili:rji had tUn only that i&orainr. and tbe czly r.eutral ccr.tit was Argentina. The man-rr man-rr In which this was dene Is reveaUr.r cf the biitx character cf the ftcie peace venture. Arj-entir.e Arr.luw-or Kapil hid an appoir.traer.t that rnorn-tx rnorn-tx with Sumner Wels. When JElspri arrived. Well? said rjothLng-(CcUaued rjothLng-(CcUaued cs Par Ttree) W. Bailey said the delay was requested by Acting: Secretary of Commerce Edward J. Noble, whose department depart-ment has charge of , the census tureiu. Eut Sen. Berjjett, Champ Clark, D, Mo, left the committee room declaring" that "a filibuster Is in prorreaa against the resolution to iapprove the questions. Union Jour, IVage Scheduto Mod For Poner Plant A delegation representing the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and , Tin Workers of North America, local No. 1577, which comprises employes of the Columbia Steel company, Monday Mon-day night met with the Provo city commission in protest of the salaries and working hours for generating engineers and firemen at the municipal power plant. Composed of William E. Zobell, president A. O. Anderson, and Dave Reese, tbe delegation stated VIOLINIST UlliS mm agclai;,i The finest artistry of the musical world was brought to Provoans Monday evening In the Tabernacle the creations of . the. great masters brought to life-by the violin in the hands of Joseph Szigettl. '-.. i ,: 1- Tve never heard finer interpretation inter-pretation by a violinist anywhere in the world, was "the enthusiastic enthusi-astic praise given by Professor LeRoy J. - Robertson of Brig- ham Young university music de partment. "Mr. Szigettl Is my idea of an artist at his best. "We were given It program of extraordinary richness, in which that two steel company men have been appointed to. the municipal jth vlniiniat rav us credit for fuuii isu hi. wwtr noun wagci than they are now receiving, and that they will be required to work 43 hours per week instead or 42 as at present. The committee also protested the, fact that the salaries Cf municipal pdwer plant employes have not been publicly announced and wondered If this could be tecauae the city is ashamed of eOlD T.lEETING SET WEDNESDAY Utah county commissioners wiil confer with men-.bers cf the state road eommlAsioo on three needed state road Improvement projects fa the county Wednesday at 11 a. m st the city county build-lr build-lr f. announces Sylran W. Clark. cf Lehl, . chairntaa of the county coxarr.lnsion. The pre; eta, which were In cluded ta the county road pro- granj as octiiaed last year, em-toiy em-toiy tccprovements on the road rjr.rir.g from Spanish Fork to Mapieton. a road entering Spring Lake, a.-.J the Vlr.ejard -rieasant View road n;.ir.L-.g e&at and weat across the Pro-o river bottoms. Mr. CUrk said. Road committees from Spanish Fork. Mapleton, Spring Lake and the Vineyard - Edgemont area. who have been urging action on the proectJ. will be invited to attend the meeting. County commissioners at their meeting Monday afternoon agreed to open up 25 rods of new road to connect the highways in the lower Springvllie district pro- vkled property owners purchase r:rht-Gf-way. la behalf of the project, the follow!.-. g delegation met with the commission: Glen W. Coffman, Willis Sumsion, G. Ray Hales, W. Oougall. Lewis Diamond, Frank Averetl, R. G- Webb, A. NV. Fmley an-i R. J. Averett- the wages It pays Mayor Mark Anderson and R. C Adams, utilities superintendent, recommended that the delegation discuss the problem with the city utilities board. Mr. Adams said that although the men will have to start at slightly lower -wages than they now make, or $125, per month instead of about 130, a yearly increase in-crease of 15 per month for five years is contemplated, so that over a period of five years they would actually be making more money. Both Mr. Adams and Mayor Anderson said the steel company men who are transferring to the municipal power plant did ao of their own volition knowing all facts regarding working hours and salary. Mr. Adams stated be saw nc objections to a labor union and ahould plant employes unionize the union wages would prevail. rOUCE CLEAN' UP AUTOMOBILF. THEFTS SALT LAKE CITY. March 4 Salt Lake City police today announced they 2ad "cleared up" 11 recent automobile thefts with arrests of 13 boys, whose ages ranged from 13 to 17, whom officers of-ficers said admitted taking the machines Just to go for rides. TWO INJURED IX ft Eft AILMENT WHITEHALL S. C, March 4 (H Two passengers were Injured Injur-ed and many others were bruised bruis-ed and jarred today when the Atlantic coastline train Mlamian,' knowing and appreciating good music. . With . hi flawless tech nique the great composers received re-ceived their Just due.'.- .7 A near-capacity audience heard the genial Hungarian virtuoso in the" brilliant concert. His performance per-formance surpassed even the advance ad-vance description of "music in gold and sflver." Beethoven's exquisite Sonata in-, year e program extensive Robinson Wins Approval Appro-val For $500,000 . ."Additional Funds WASHINGTON, D. C Mar. 5 A supplemental estimate esti-mate of $500,000 which would increase the Deer Creek project proj-ect appropriation from $750,-000 $750,-000 to $l,250,000-was sent to the White House Monday afternoon aft-ernoon by the budget bureau with the recommendation for approval, ap-proval, reports J.' W.TRobinson, representative from Utah. , 1 '.-If .President Roosevelt approves promptly the supplemental estimate, esti-mate, the house appropriations committee will support an amendment amend-ment to the interior department bill - increasing the appropriation, Mr. Robinson believes. - The Utah congressional delegation,, delega-tion,, has been concentrating on getting a supplemental estimate, knowing that the house appropriations appropri-ations committee would not ap prove a larger, appropriation for the Deer Creek "or any other project proj-ect ; than . had been recommended by the. budget Congressman Robinson has had many conferences with the budget bureau but not until Monday was he assured that they would send to the White House a' proposed estimate for another 500,0007" Congressman Robinson is confident confi-dent President Roosevelt will approve ap-prove the budget recommendation and send it promptly to congress. L The additional -. half j, million would enable launching construction construc-tion of the Duchesne tunnel, a part of the Deer Creek project. ranted hearings on the interior bill show that John C. Page, reclamation commissioner, when questioned about Deer Creek, said: "We ought to have $500.- 000 more., That much is needed to make a good contract on Duchesne Du-chesne tunnel. Without this additional addi-tional money we would be obliged to wait : another year on the tunnel." tun-nel." . :.; . . r.-r; . The commissioner , added that the Weber-Provo and Provo reservoir res-ervoir canals must be built before the project can be very effective. "The water from the Weber, as well as some water from the Colorado river system must be brought through the Duchesne tunnel before we have " a supply there that will do all .the things required to fill the reservoir every Roosevelt Endorses Move WASHINGTON, March 5 U.R) President Roosevelto- day endorsed the principles in the proposed amendments ta. extend the Hatch clean politics bill to state employes paid in whole or in part by federal funds. ' ' - Situation Aggravated ' ROME, March 5 (U.R) Announcement in London that two Italian ships - carrying coal from Germany had been seized by the British contraband control surprised Italian . v " m - a 111 11. a.? !i..-l!- circles today ana aggravated a aeiicate diplomatic situation. Welles Through With Hitler LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 5 (U.R) Apparent German hopes that Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's special envoy to Europe, would visit Adolf Hitler again seemed doomed to disappointment today. Welles, resting here, prepared to leave for Pans tomor row night, planning to continue on to London Sunday, return to Paris Wednesday, fly direct to Rome to see Premier Benito Mussolini again and sail for home on the liner Conte Di Sayoia March 18. , ' Disapproval Is Voiced Over Deer Creek Leases, Successful bidders for lease of lands in the Deer Creek reservoir area for one year were listed today by a sub-commit tee of the Provo River Water Users' association headed by Leland H. Kimball of Salt Lake City." . - Simultaneously,' O. C. Day, sec retary and director of the Highland High-land Conservation - district, and member of the . subcommittee in charge of leasing ' Deer Creek lands, declared that ' rentals confirm' con-firm' his . previous opinion ? that Wasatch county farmers are ask ing far too much for the lands needed by the Water Users' association asso-ciation for reservoir purposes, j Members of the subcommittee C, OF GREETING IN READINESS Take It from P. E. Ashton, general gen-eral chairman, and J. Edwin Stein, in - charee of entertainment. . the annual . dinnersmoker "sponsored who canvanednneidsMr.,ilirfTme,"s or mat? attitude in the by the chamber of commerce for its members Wednesday at 7:15 p. m 'at . the golf clubhouse, will .be rousing affair. A review of last year's high. lights and an outline of the 1940 program by -President J. C. Mof fitt and Secretary Clayton Jenkins will consume the first part of the meeting, with a varied program of music anu sports to follow, The sports program will include two - wrestling: - matches, several boxing: ; bouts, exhibition fencing, exhibition ping pong, etc- with outstanding performers partlci pating, states Mr. Stein Every member of the chamber is invited. ,1 Free ducats have . been distributed to entire membership.' A Major opened the . violinist's program. His second group included in-cluded compositions by Veraclni' Cortl, Schubert, and Paganinl. Paganinl's -Variations in A Minor, for violin alone, was at selection of great technical difficulty which the artist surmounted without apparent effort. Tb8 "Baal Shem" Suite fcf Ernest Bloch was played in its entirety. Debussy, RXhisky- Kor sakoff, Mompou, and Stravinsky were represented in tne unaa group. After the completed program pro-gram had been , played, the audience called Mr. Szigetl back to give four encores before it would leave the building. With the triumph of this con cert, Utah is again indebted to the B. Y. U.-Community Con cert association for bringing another an-other of the world's greatest musicians to this city. O. R. S. This Day. LICENSED TO MARRY , Albert Thomas Banks. 29, Span ish Fork, and Rhea Kathryn Bal lard, 25, Payson. Jack K. Finch, 26, Price, and struck a track split and six cars Cleo' Harriman. 23, Mammoth, were derailed. married bv county clerk. . . . .t 1 -ar and should be exploited because, as wd are now set up we can neither get the water we have to the reservoir nor can we get it away from the reservoir until these features are built." Mr. Page showed that the total cost of the Deer Creek project, completed in all details, will be $15,774,000 andjihat in addition to ine amounts already expended or appropriated further appropri ations aggregating . ' J9.609.000 must be made by congress. Forum Meeting To Be Held Thursday One of the most interesting community forum meetings of the year's series will be held Thursday Thurs-day at 8 p. m. in the city courtroom court-room when two capable speakers discuss "America and the Inter national Scene," declares John Bown, forum executive secretary. Speakers are J. M. Jensen of the B. Y. U. faculty, who will give a historical talk on relationship of belligerent countries, and Sterling Callahan, returned missionary, who will speak on the German people and their attitude towards other countries of the world. r 3 Spring G3t: Sot-Bscli Today Who " said,', anything about spring? , , - Children - began ' getting out marbles and scheduling hopscotch tournaments " Monday when warm sun shone all day. There were yarns about lilacs starting to bud. Home owners got out garden tools. Temperatures were mild. The 'weather bureau -pre dieted "partly cloudy" weather. Today the populace shivered as a piercing March wind whistled on its course. Provoans ; muttered something about March: doesn't need to start going out like a lion the fifth day of the month. In some parts of the state clouds opened up and rain and snow fell The weather -bureau's alibi: "It was really, unexpected.. The snow is caused by : a cold front that moved in - quickly without warn ing. It should move out just as fast." NEW LEGION POST . SALT LAKE CITY, March 4 (UP Glen Ballinger, HelF'er, Utah state commander of the American Legion, announced today a tem porary charter has been granted for a legion post in Sugarhouse, suburban residential and business section of Salt Lake City.. Ann Sheridan's Got No Use for Those Harvard Boy; BY FREDERICK C OTIOLN HOLLYWOOD. March 5 (CRi Harvard university lost itself ; a girl friend today because its undergraduates un-dergraduates chose Miss Ann Sheridan as the movie , actress most likely to succeed. "I wonder what those bozos think Is success?" demanded Miss Sheridan, upon perusal of the Harvard lampoon, in which she placed last on the student's list. "It's enough to make a lady mad. Now I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. Har-vard. . "I've locked up that institution and I don't think its graduates . have any cause to be criticizing anybody. The statistics show that the average Inmate of that school earns less than $5,000 a year, 25 years after getting out of it. They wouldn't be getting that much if it weren't for a couple of millionaires." mil-lionaires." ' The red-headed Miss Sheridan, who is 25 years old and five years out of college herself earns approximately ap-proximately $100,000 a year. "And money isn't all when you consider success," she said. "I refer back to my Harvard statistics. sta-tistics. One of Its graduates lsa filling station windshield wiperoo. " Another is a bum who hasn't slept in a bed for five years. "A third reported he was "an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially. I could go on with these statistics, but what's the use? "I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a sad evening. He could have used a little more oomph. So could the Harvard football foot-ball team. So could the Lampoon." ."Look at this Lampoon," she insisted. "If is isn't the saddest idea-of a magazine, I don't know what is. Why, it's only a pale copy - of . 'Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang.' " s 9fc 4 Miss Sheridan added that she was a graduate of the North Texas State Teachers' college, where she studied to be a kindergarten kinder-garten Instructor. "And if I'm a failure," she said. 'T don't guess those Harvard boys would want me around. But I graduated with honors In kindergarten kin-dergarten work and I think I could teach Harvard students a lot. . "Furthermore, I'd hate to see the Harvard football team tangle with the boys from North Texas State. It wouldn't, be a battle; it would be a slaughter." ball, Mr. . Day and . Elmer A. Ja-i cob of Provo, secretary 1 of the Water Users' association stated in , all cases. ... the ' leases went to highest' bidders. The lands consist of - some of ' the best farm, pasture pas-ture and range grounds in the reservoir area, they 'said. Successful bidders, together with the block ; number, acreage and price follow: No. 1, 50 acres, H. A. Hoover, $20; No. 2, 305 acres, Hyrum S. Winterton, $151; No. 3, 986.3 acres, J. C. Tuft. $460; No. 4, 337.4 acres, Vivian D. Johnson, John-son, $305; No. 5, 928 acres, H. F. Watson, $111; No. 6. 92.57 acres, William Boren, $70; No. 7, 15 acres, no bids. . , . No. ; 8, 117.86 acres. C. D. Thacker, $76; ' No. 9, 36.8 acres. WUliam Henline, $55; No. 10, 16-1 SHOLIM 1 CONTROVERSY LOOMS HEAR F a s c i rt i Government . Protests. English Action Strongly BY FREDERICK KUII LONDON," March 5 (U.R) Great Britain moved toward a showdown on German coal exports to Italy today by de-, taining two Italian cargo ships and announcing German coal exported by way of Holland to Italy now is liable to seiz ure as a pnze. The ; detention of the Italian ships two of 10 which sailed from Rotterdam for Italy was announced an-nounced in the house of commons by Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Cross after . the Fascist government had protested strong ly against the allied blockade decision de-cision as compromising relations between Italy and Great Britain. Cross emphasized the two ships had, been detained today and said that German, shipments of coal by way of Holland had now ceased. Resentment Shown The statement by' Cross was a result of questioning by Emanuel smnwell, Laborite, who brought into debate the question of Ital- . ian resentment . against the stop-age stop-age of much-needed coal supplies in tne 'tscist state and the im- larger question of Italian non-bel ligerency in the war. There seemed a .tendency here. both in British and Italian circles, to believe the dispute would be liquidated amicably in the end. But its implicit seriousness was not discounted, and the conserva tive Dally Telegraph, close to the foreign office, said in an article, by its diplomatic correspondent: The possibility that Sle- nor Mussolini may feel called on to support his protest by demonstrations demon-strations of . military - strength is recognized in London." ,' . , Britain long delayed apDlIcatlon of its German export ban from taly, hoping a trade agreement might be reached for exchange of British coal and Italian heavy Industrial In-dustrial products. It was under stood the decision to enforce the il 47YTcres Suver Edwards" ban a? regarda waa due P t.lrL1 Cr'o riI!rT.w' not only to the failure of trad Edwards, $270; No. 13, 107.8 acres, Gladys, B. Winterton, $125; No. 14, 57.5 acres, H. i Fred Price, $135; No.' 15, 82 acres, Heber Winterton, $164.82. With announcement of the lease of lands, Mr. Day issued a warn- ning that Utah county taxpayers will "sit up and take notice," de claring that the low price of rent als only bears out his Contention that the, Wasatch county farmers are asking "shocking prices' for their lands. "Wasatch county juries trying the Deer Creek , ' condemnation (Continued On Page Eight) Grant Clay Leave Hospital Soon LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 5 EE) Dr. W. E. Hunter said to day Heber J. Grant, 83-year-old Mormon ? church president, , had suffered a "slight attack" of Influenza In-fluenza ten days ago but" added the veteran church leader is "now J1 over . it." : Dr. Hunter, attending Grant at St. Vincent's hospital where he has been r confined for the , last month, said he expected Grant to be able to leave bed and use a wheelchair soon. The physician said Grant was undecided when he would return to his L. D. S. headquarters In Salt Lake City. trade negotiations, but to complaints by small neutral nations that Italy was being given preferential treatment. FLOOD DAMAGE AT 15 MILLION SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 (HE) After a week of flood, hundreds faced poverty and threats of disease in Northern California today. , .-'7 . Dr. Walter M. Dickie, state health director, sent four assistants assist-ants with edislnf ectants, vaccines, and sanitary equipment to stricken strick-en Meridian In Sutter county. Dr. Harold Hennessey, Sutter county health director, condemned a 14 by 16 mile area as a health hazard and ordered women and children to leave. Sons of Pioneers To Attend Funeral All members of the George Al bert Smith camp of the Sons of the Pioneers are requested to attend the funeral of Mathew J- Phil lips in a body, .vny other pioneers or old residents are invited to join with this group, according to Wal ter G. Taylor, captain. The fun eral will be held in the Pleasant View ward- chapel, at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday, but the members are requested to be there 15 minutes earlier. AUNT HET BV ROBERT Orn.LEX Mi ft 'j ill,". i II 1 "When I .help pe-; ' I , don't exjieft pay, Li the shape o gratitude, but I do like a liitlft manners. You expect a thank-you if you only pass the butter." |