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Show o o Call The Herald If you do not receive your llerald promptly, call The Herald office, 493, before 7 p.m. weeks days, and 10 a. m. Sundays, and m copy will be delivered to yon. FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 20G D ES K CHAT. RY THE EDITOR " If you want to see "some- thing different" In the. way of stage entertainment, don't miss "The Drunkard,', junior chamber of commerce production produc-tion staged in the historic surroundings of the old Provo onera house, now known as The Armory. The popular vjnodern caricature of old-time melodrama at its best (or worst) was keenly enjoyed by a full house last night,, and will be repeated tonight for the last time. Don't blame ms if you didn't get to see it. We warned you. , oOo- - Loaded guns in the hands of young boys, not sufficiently sufficient-ly aware of the dangers .involved, .in-volved, are responsible - for many, unnecessary' deaths, from time to time. How to prevent this needless loss of life Is a constant problem. " One .way lies in the early training of boys in the proper way of handling a gun, with a proper respect for the pos- sibilities of , danger' involved. Junior gun clubs are doing a fine piece of work along this line of approach. r Still another viewpoint has been followed by the Society for the revention'of Cruelty to Animals. In San Francis- cOj ims organization, Deiiev-ing Deiiev-ing it is better for boys to get acquainted with game animals than to shoot them, has offered of-fered a -novel proposition to the boys.'. ., ', . Since everybody likes to have a little sugar on his pills of pursuasion, the society offered of-fered to swap a new camera tor each workable gun brought in bjr a boy. Nearly 100 boys have already been persuaded in this manner that hunting with a camera takes more skill and yields more fun than, hunting with a gun. . Whoever thought ud "this ingenious scheme of swapping "snapshots for., gunshots," American delegate to the next disarmament conference. MERRY GO-ROUND A Dally Picture of What's Gofcg On in National . ' Affair - y - . DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON One of the most significant farm meetings in many months is scheduled for Des St. Paul tomorrow (Saturday). Officially, its purpose is to pu? ' congressional sentiment for the Jones-Bankhead Act lowering interest in-terest rates on loans from the Farm Credit Administration. Hen- '. ry Wallace expects : to , address about 12,000 farmers on this subject. sub-ject. Behind this, however, is an Increasing In-creasing cleavage between what Wallace once described as the upper up-per one-third farmer group for whom his agriculture department actually has done 'most of its work, and the two-thirds of underprivileged under-privileged farmers who have been neglected. . Wallace has v been trying to switch more aid to the two-thirds, and - at this St. Paul meeting he is giving his blessing to the National Farmers' Union. This is an organization which is . considered consid-ered radical if not dangerous, by the Grange and the Farm Bureau, v These two pillars of farm conservatism con-servatism or at least their executiveshave execu-tiveshave split ' wide open with Wallace over lower Interest rates for farmers. The reason remains (Continued on Page Two) 1 "JT - Ji'X UTAH'S ONLY DAILY WJUTH OF SALT LAKH CHAM OF COMMERCE DRIVE READY Worker To Meet Monday Mon-day Morning For Opening Gun , - : Provo chamber of commerce com-merce will inaugurate its annual an-nual membership drive" Monday Mon-day at 8 a. m. at a breakfast at Keeleys, with 55 members expected to attend and ; receive re-ceive instructions, announces J. C. Moffitt, president. OnW on dav will be needed to complete the drive, for there will be 40 men working-, and each team will be given only six or seven names to contact, states Mr. Moffitt Mof-fitt The chamber now comprises 250 members. .Three hundred' is the 1940 goal. One goal of the cam paign will be to obtain memberships member-ships from a number of new firms which have located here during the past year. Aura C. Hatch will be "In, charge of a brief program at the break fast, with Mr. Moffitt, S. W. Russell, Rus-sell, C. T. Kelgley and Secretary Clayton Jenkins to give reportv. Invited to attend are the following fol-lowing teams: A. E.' Wright and Bob Bullock, Sherman Bukofzer and I. E. Brockbank, Pete Ashton and Merrill Christopherson,'. J. W. Christensen and M. J. Steed,. O. W, Johnson, and S. V. RusseliT Elmer Jacobsen and Sterling Law-rence', Law-rence', Harry, J5tagg, ,n4-. Frank Earl, Hamilton Calder and Seymour-Gray, Clifton Tolboe and C. T. ? Kelgley, Howard Graham and Wyman Berg. '.: J. ' C. Kindred and . Parley Larson. Lar-son. Harold Anderson and Gene Hoover, Hal Madsen and Francis McPhle, J. Rulon Morgan and J. C. Moffitt. -Frank Mullett and John O. Beesley, . Clvde CrockeTt and Allan Johnson, R. .A". Moore-field, Moore-field, 'Alex Hedquist and V. J. Bird., - f - Edi Burton and W.' C. LaBrache, Ed. Shriver and Thomas Sumner, W. L: Sowards and Ed. Stein. E. R. Sorenson and ; Paul Vincent, Sterling' Price and H. C. Johnson, Neal TutUe and W. ' R. . Butler, Denzil Brown and Tom Geasford, J. R. Jensen and Sterling Ercan- brack. , Also Invited , are L. B. Tackett. business manager, and E. R. Rasmuson, editor of the Daily Herald; Roy Hudson, Tele- gram, and D. O.' Wight, Valley News. , Studentbody 1: STERLING STRATE President 'V AFTON BIGELOW Secretary; . , - VW - - X - Vi"K o o 77 Nazi Landing- Quay Hit by Bombers is Lon don Claim LONDON, April 2G U.R) . Air ministry sources said tonight to-night that British planes had bombed a German transport ship at Granvinfjord this afternoon, af-ternoon, and also scored direct hits on the landing quay. The British Bristol-Blenheim bombers, , which" flew In waves along the Norwegian coast, also sank a 2,000-ton German supply sup-ply ship and successfully attacked a military - encampment on - the shore j at. Ulvikport, the ministry aald. . . - ' : Two German Domier 18 flying boats were brought down by the British, s,ne at Ulvikf jord. It also was reported that the British on Thursday night bombed oil tanks and a refinery ? a few miles north of Moss, on Oslof Jord. Ulvikf jord. is directly east of Bergen. DRIVERS HELD AFTER BLOCKADE Jrovo police and members of the Utah highway patrol Thursday afternoon and knight; I conducted "blockades" on i the Springville road within the city limits, and in uiree-.and a half hours checked 750 cars, - issued 30 warnine ticfr ets and made 89 arrests, reports uuy cnristensen. chief of police. One ' person. Merrill Peterson. sj. was booked for drunken driving driv-ing and was released on $100 bail Most of the other arrests were for having . outdated driver's ' li censes or no licenses at all. . ' Five police officers and four highway patrolmen conducted the blockades. This Day... . BORN Boy, to Sterling, and Joyce Gadd Muhlesteln, Monday at the home of . Mrs. George Selman. Election Winners SARAH - MABEY Vice President . DON ; - Social SEARLE Chairman fill n?i n B s j i i j i a i ait w t PROVO, UTAH j COUNTY,; TTi JV. Transport Ship : : s : i He Brought Swedish Gold from Norway ii Back in the safety of American 'Trondhea,.NQAvay Altr U,iistaken -fromGcrman3,ia CaptWiJ-liam CaptWiJ-liam Mchlale, skipper of the -American freighter Mormacsea, shown above as he arrived in New, York. OOO in Swedish gold hidden in the Election Explained By r Eorit&i Speaker Advantages of refunding the $850,000 in municipal power pow-er electric revenue bonds to obtain a lower interest rate were outlined by Mayor'Mark Anderson, City Attorney I. E. Brock-bank, Brock-bank, and J. Hamilton Calder,' chairman of the utilities board, -t - 1 at public forum meeting Thurs STRATE, T.1ABEY WIN ELECTION Sterling Strate, Provo, will head the ? Brlgham Young university student body next year . as the result of the final elections held Thursday. Assisting Mr. Strate in his administrative duties, will b Sarah Mabey, Bountiful, ; vici president; ,Af ton Bigelow. Provo; secretary historian; and Don Searle, Spanish Fork, social chairman. chair-man. V Favored by & three-to-one vote, the Introduction of an honor tradition tra-dition was passed as the : only question of student policy to appear ap-pear on the ballot. A total of 1783. ballots were cast. , - , Mr. Strate, president of the Viking social unit, is chairman of the Pacific Students' Presidents' meet to be held here May 2-5. A commerce major, he is a member of Alpha Kappa ; Psl, I commerce honorary. ACr' ,; '' Miss Mabey is a ' member of Vhlte Key, Phi Chi Theta. women's wo-men's commercial, and the Banyan staff. Miss Blgelow also is affiliated affili-ated with the White Key, and Val Norn. Mr, Searle has been active on the 'T' News staff. He is af -filiated with the Brigadiers. . Final results were as follows: . SterUng Strate 1115, Marvin Smith, 673, Mary Deane Peterson 853, Sarah Mabey 942, Pat Croft 838, Af ton Bigelow 952, Don Searle 1125, John Evans 664. Honor Hon-or tradition, , favorable 1219, against 401. PRIMARY FESTrVAL -The Third ward Primary Is holding a music festival this evening eve-ning at 8 o'clock in the meeting house. . The entire Primary, more than 100 children, will - appear in the entertainment. The public is invited. in-vited. SELL CARNATIONS " Girls representing the Spanish-American Spanish-American War veterans will sell red carnations on . Provo streets Saturday, proceeds to be turned over ' to ' disabled veterans ' and their dependants. " ' -j . UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 Bomb ' V ass . . y ittmm waters after a thrilling dash rrom He fled with a fortune of $4,500, .hold of his vessel. day night. . . , - : . . Mr. Calder explained thatit Is simply "good business " to refund the bonds at this time," pointing out that the city will save more UnM 91)K AAA 4Vk fhA uw" -.wv w, Dickman and Peacock, bonds through the action. Favorable Market l10 ; 3, He declared the present bond, Cleveland ..... 001 000 market U verv favorable, and , nd Tresh; Allen and Hemsley. urged the voters who go to the polls in a special election May 25 to authorize the refund so the city may Immediately reduce the interest in-terest rate from A per cent to about 2 per cent. i' Mayor Anderson explained the present contract with the Utah Power and Light . company for standby service, and declared that by Issuing $350,000 additional revenue bonds for expanding the generating capacity of the municipal muni-cipal plant, the city can provide six times more standby capacity for less money than is now being paid the power Company. He emphasized that the revenue bonds are not a general obligation to the city, and can be paid only from revenues of the plant. Mr. Brockbank pointed out that refunding, the $850,000 revenue bonds will mean a ' saving to the city over the life of the bonds of 1127,636.75, the interest rate being reduced from 4tt per cent on the (Continued On Page Eight) Jaycee Melodrama, "The Drunkard" Reclaimed By Opening Night Crowd; Plays Again Tonight The glamorous 1860's when men with handlebar mustaches spent their ; leisure in reeking saloons while anxious women paced the floors at home lived again Thurs day night as a capable cast under direction of the Provo - junior chamber of commerce staged "The Drunkard," a moral domestic drama, in the old opera bouse, now the Armory building. For the second and final time, the . five-act play will be por trayed again tonight, starting at 8 o'clock, Jaycee officials announce. an-nounce. : - A near, capacity audience which Included old-timers who have seen many a blood-tingling melodrama it I Mil NAZI DRIVE RESISTANCE Germans Fighting With - Armored Cars In New Attack BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Germany's armed forces smashed northward through Allied defense lines in central Norway today, but a powerful attack by British naval, air and land. units was reported developing against the German-occupied port of Trond- helm. - . On land, the Germans were fighting with armored cars, ar tillery and planes in an effort to drive allied and Norwegian troops from the Gudbrandsdal and Oesterdal valleys, capture the important im-portant railroad junctions of Dom-ba&s Dom-ba&s and ,. steren. and . join up with the forces now holding Trondhelm. Success in that double edged offensive would almost cer tainly drive the allied expedition ary forces out of southern Nor way. In the Gudbrandsdal valley, the Germans continued an advance toward to-ward Dom baas, throwing back British troops south of the rail road town after an artillery bombardment, bom-bardment, and an attack by low flying,alrplan3 that strafed .Britr uh forces despite the arrival of the first British fighting planes in Norway. - ' - In the Oestrdal valley, parallel to the Swedish frontier, the Nazis also advanced, re-occupied the town of Roeros and were reported fighting - Norwegian and allied troops which are in strong mountain moun-tain pass positions north of Roe ros. German bombing planes flew northward from Roeros and were said to have bombed the railroad to prevent . movement of allied reinforcements from Stoeren. The allies admittedly facing (Continue! 1 on Page Five) Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE . New. York ..... 000 000 Boston ......... 401 200 pAaraAn CYm n1a i A Tflfsiv w. v . 9 Philadelphia . ... 000 003 , Washington .... 100 030 Potter and Hayes; Hollingworth and Early. Detroit at SL Louis, postponed, wet grounds. jr NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis' 011 10 Pittsburgh .... 000 01 C. Davis and Padgett; M. Brown and V. Davis. Boston 010 11 New York 000 10 Strlncevich and Lopez; Hubbard and Danning. . Brooklyn 000 002 Philadelphia ... 000 000 Fitzsimmons and Mancuso; Smoll and Warren. Cincinnati .... 1 Chicago 5 Thompson and.Lombardl; Passeau and Todd a in the old opera house, witnessed last night's performance, and held their breath, laughed, applauded, and hissed in turn as the gripping plot unfolded. Old Time Flavor-All Flavor-All the flavor of the "early days" was there, Including the costumes of the period. Men wore rough-neck sweaters and black mustaches, and walked and talked with a swaggering, swashbuckling swashbuck-ling air. Women wore long skirts and high-topped shoes, and bobbed bob-bed their hair. The plot centered around the evil scheming of Lawyer Cribbs, portrayed by Jack Davies, who guided the young hero, Edward "oj "r3 Y (m J- MEETS O COSIPLKTB tTXITED l'RC1 TillEO KAPH NEWS BEHV1CU "Athletic Events To Attract Huge Crowd to Stadium - ' Appearance of Greg Rice, World's Champion Two-mile. Runner, Girls' Posture Parade Feature Attractions The. carnival and -fiesta spirit annually generated by Brigham Young university's Invitation Meet and Relay Carnival Car-nival is expected to reach a new peak Saturday 'when concluding-.events climax the colorful meet which bejran today in the "Y" stadium. Hundreds of athletes from six states participated today in opening; activities of the mass pageant, which was featured fea-tured by the brilliant junior high posture parade. Termis, track and field events, and danc- : Ing. all on i grand scale, hlgh- Jlghted one of the outstanding opening days In the SO-yesr history his-tory of the festival. Eye-filling beauty of the posture pos-ture parade; the running of the great Gregory Rice, tops in American distance men; the Impressive Im-pressive "Salute To Youth" at the end of the marathon-rIay from Salt Lake; and the sweep and drama of 3500 youths participating participat-ing in a variety of events, will comprise the final act of the west's greatest spring spectacle. Attendance mark of the two-day festival is expected to surpass the 10,000 mark, if favorable weather prevails. Between three and five thousand spectators watched today's to-day's activities, which Included the junior high posture parade, danc ing, junior .high boys and senior high ahj"jurJor girls track events, istuu. ".(u Raturdav'a nrplimlnnrw vnta begin at 8:30, with the mammoth climax slated to get underway at the Y" stadium at 1 p. m. with a band concert. Gregory Rice will run at 3 p. m. " A colorful entry parade, featuring featur-ing 125 Boys Scouts in uniform, will precede the senior high posture pos-ture parade into the stadium to officially open the afternoon's events at 1:30. After the posture parade marches march-es twice around the stadium field in the traditional. heart-UrsgUng ceremony, a runner, bearing messages mes-sages from L. D. S. authorities and state officials, will enter the stadium to climax the marathon-relay marathon-relay from Salt Lake. At the (ConiUiUea on Page iCight) SCHOOL DANCE ' , -TEAMS BATED Certificates of excellency were presented to entries la the Junior high dance division of Thirtieth Annual Invitation meet Friday morning by MUs Margaret Burton, dance director of Brlgham Young university. Ratings of AAA. AA and A were given. Judges were Tes Chile Tyler, dance director; Beulan Smertz, University of Utah dance instructor; and Aline Coleman Smith. former-Y" dance instructor. Schools rated and thel dance divisions are. Interpretive. Union Junior (West Salt Lake). AAA; Farrer Junior high. AA; and Tir.uc (Eureka) ,A. Social, ixon Junior, (AAA; Farrer. AA; and Union. A. Character, Union Junior, AAA and Pleasant Grove, AA. Tap dancing, Farrer Junior, A and Union June A. A special number of. combined tap and interpretive was also given by Union Junior. Mlddleton. played by Frank Fls-ter, Fls-ter, to temporary ruin through the medium of the bottle for his own selfish gain, only to be caught In his own trap aa the drama drew to a climax. Mr. Davies and Mr. FIster turned turn-ed in magnificent performances, being well-cast for their parts, as did scintilating Irma Acord, who ably portrayed the part of Mary Wilson, Middleton's wife: Elene Wlltbank. playing the role of Agnes Dowton, the demented girl, and Roy Hudson, as Will Dowton. Agnes' brother, all cf whom had lead parts. Others having prominent parts (Continued On Page Eiht) TVie Weather UTAH Showers .tonight -and Saturday; Colder extreme et and central portions tonight. Maximum Temp. Thuroday Minimum Temp. Thursday ..51 PRICE FIVE CENTS Farrer, Lincoln Posture Parade Squads Held Tops Farrer and Lincoln tunior fclrh J schools of Provo and Orem. res pectively, won AAA or highest rating in th Junior high girii posture parade held this - afternoon after-noon In connection with the 2-jth annual B. Y. U. Invitation Meet and Relay Carnival. Dixon of Provo and "VTajiaUh of Ileber City were accorded A A. rating, while the other two contestants, con-testants, . Draper and Bingham were ranked in the in$;Ie-A class. T7nVi TTta-M 4 t t t-ated their ton rankinra 1B3. : . . i . ! -. v American orc, wtucn also won AAA rating lat year did not participate today. Farrer has won triple-A rating-for rating-for five consecutive years, and two years previous to that won. first places when the posture parade was Judged on place-rating basis. Lincoln has won AAA three straight years. Judges of the parade were George S. Bailif and Clarence Harmon. Provo; T. C Ht-berU-n. Vineyard, and Beulah SacerU. physical education instructor at University of Utan. Utah Delegation Favors Hoosoueli SALT LAKE CITY. Apnl 23 t"lr An Informal poU ct Utah's 15-man delegation to the Democratic Demo-cratic national conventla.n today indicated the eight Utah votes at the national convention would b given to Preiident Roosevelt if he is a candidate for the preiider.Ul nomination. Calvin Rawlins, retiring national nation-al committeeman. u ra rr.ei chairman of the dele ration. Mr. James li. Wolfe, r.ewiy elected national na-tional cornmitteewoaaan. m&M elected secreUry. Three or four candidates srrir to be favoree by the Uta.na if Mr. Roosevelt d;es net aeek a third term. Sentiment arr-r.g the delegates appeared divided n. r. c James A. l irlf y. O rdn HuIL enator Burton K. Wt.eelr ( '. Montana ana Paul V. McN'utt second choke cnd.dstes. Utah's delegate w-.ll go to t Chicago ct-Te-tion in July un-irj un-irj true ted. - AUNT HET Ey Robert QniZea If hi man 4 anr 6 o any thinJln I fei orry for hi in. It roust be rr-sin rr-sin to out) old thicks aji know that improvement of Main Street U Juat waitia' on your funeral. J |