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Show 11 1 ill 1il The Weather UTAH Cloudy with occasional snow tonight and Wednesday; warmer northeast tonight. Maximum Temp. Monday . . 21 Minimum Temp. Monday 2 below. ?Hfcf I7f ah County By Patronizing Local Stores and Business Houses FIFTY-FIFTH. YEAR, NO. 119 Z UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH' COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1940 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS T) T? T " IT" TT 7 IT r'TTM'TC! TELEPGKAPH NEWS 8EKV1CB XlVlllj T I V i VH.1N 1 O CHAT BY THE KDITOU I i o( !Wr i JWIl I ! TO VU w - u Hi Hi v"! DESK A W M -i 0 V'V h Ml 'V M Ml : p A VN p Lz L3 Lru V Lzi Ll J If IL We used to say "cursed like a trooper," or, more recently, "cursed like a stevedore," or "like a truck driver." Those hackneyed old similes simi-les need revising, according to Arthur S. Colborne, New York president of the Anti-Profanity Anti-Profanity League. Now its the women, and especially "society women," who do the most fluent cursing, Colborne says. We trust he means "cafe society," assuming that there's any difference. At any rate it is interesting to note his suggestion that bad language is most prevalent preva-lent among those who should, in theory at least, know better. bet-ter. We apologize to cavalryman, cavalry-man, dockman, and trucker. Hereafter, let the simile be "cursed like a nightclub debutante." debu-tante." 0O0- Traffic wise-cracks: Any fool can be careless . . . quit your skidding ... an accident can be as embarrassing as having sea-sickness and lockjaw lock-jaw at the same time . . . hitch - hikers are perfectly harmless if you never pick them up. ... if you're wrong in a traffic situation, you can't afford to lose your temper; tem-per; if you're right .why lose it?, . . the stakes are high when you gamble with safety . . . slow down at sundown. cOo Tid-bits: The Duke and Duchess are about tied on the excitement caused over one losing a tooth and the other a crown. . . . Statistics show that much of the time a checkered career leads to a striped suit. . . . The quitfer is usually laughed at by the fellow who hasn't the nerve to begin. ... We sincerely hope Col. Leonard P. Ayres is half right in his prediction that America will have areas of boom and slump in 1941. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Ford Orders Bring Showdown in Defense Commission On Labor Act Policies; Knud-sen Knud-sen OK'd Plane Engine Contract To Ford Without Hillman's Knowledge; Says Output's the Thing; Hill-man Hill-man Insists Law Violators Get No Contract. , WASHINGTON Those reports about Defense Commissioner Sidney Sid-ney Hillman warring with the War Department for giving defense de-fense orders to Henry Ford are only part of the inside story. Before he tackled the War Department De-partment he did some plain talking talk-ing to his fellow Defense Commissioners. Com-missioners. . Behind the scenes, Hillman has been on the warpath over Ford ever since the Army, with the approval of Defense Commissioner Commission-er William Knudsen, awarded Ford a contract for 4,000 airplane air-plane engines the day after electionand elec-tionand thereby put Hillman, who knew nothing about the transaction, cn the spot. At that time Hillman was in the midst of a bitter CIO fight to oust" John L. Lewis, who used the granting of defense orders to Wagner Act violators as one of his chief arguments against the President. Also embarrassed by the contract were R. J. Thomas, president of the ' United Auto Workers, and other union officers who had resisted Lewis' pressure and gone down the line for Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Hillman raised the roof about the Ford order. He was told that the need for plane engines was pressing, that until new plants were in operation, the Government Govern-ment was compelled to get engines en-gines anywhere it could. Hillman accepted the explanation, but warned that the matter was not to be considered a precedent. Also, he quietly set- about trying to effect an agreement between Ford and the Auto Workers. Then, last week, he suddenly discovered that again unknown to him, the Army had given Ford another order. This time Hillman (Continued on Page Eight) CINCINNATI BLAST KILLS 1 2 RESIDENTS Store, Apartment Building Build-ing Blown Up; Cause Unknown CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 17 iU.R) An explosion ripped through two combination store and apartment buildings build-ings here today. At least 12 persons were known dead. Several were missing and many were injured. Cause of the blast was undetermined. undeter-mined. At first it was believed attributable to gas, but subsequently subse-quently one of the tenants who escaped injury said "someone had been fooling with acid in the basement." base-ment." The blast occurred when occupants occu-pants of the numerous apartments above stores and shops were in their beds. The two buildings, each three stories high and of brick construction, collapsed a3 though bombed. Most of those killed or maimed were victims of falling brick and steel girders. The first bodies recovered were those of Dora Smith, 9, and Joseph Jos-eph P. Koebbe, 33, proprietor of an .appliance shop in one of the buildings. The bodies of an unidentified boy, about 9 and an unidentified girl, about 8 also were recovered. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 17 l.H) The list of known dead In the building explosion: ' Dora Smith, D. Joseph P. Koebbe, C3. Joseph Schnetzer, 2. Frank Schnetzer, 43. Mrs. Frank Schnetzer and infant. in-fant. V Helen Schnetzer, 10; Carrie Schnetzer, 22, and Leonard Schnetzer, 9. Jack Morgan, 28. Bobbie Morgan, 5. Freida Morgan, 23. " CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 17 CP) A baby was born early today to Mrs. Frank Schnetzer, 42, shortly before she died in the explosion which crumpled two brick buildings. build-ings. The unnamed baby was listed by the coroner's office as the 12th fatality of the blast. ' The body of Mrs. Schnetzer was found beneath a mattress in a mass of debris. The newly-born bafcy lay dead nearby. , HINCKLEY SEES AIRLINE GROWTH SALT LAKE CITY', Dec. 17 (L'.D Robert H. Hinckley, assistant secretary of commerce in charge of aviation and related government govern-ment activities, said today that commercial aircraft increased 33 per cent during the first 10 months of this year over the corresponding correspond-ing period in 1939. Up to the first of November, Hinckley said, commercial airlines air-lines flew 90 million revenue miles. He observed that it was just 37 years ago today when he Wright brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk to initiate an industry which had grown to be one of the foremost in the world. - Hinckley is in Utah to observe the C'nristmas holidays with his family in Ogden. Upon his arrival from Washington, D. C, he an nounced he would inspect the air craft industry on the Pacfific coast before his return to the na- , uon s capital. Blood Appointed President Of California !. D. S. Mission SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 17 UX Appointment of Henry H. Blood, retiring governor of Utah, as president of the California mission mis-sion of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) church was announced today by Heber J. Grant, church president. As president of the California mission. Blood will succeed W. Aird McDonald, who it is understood under-stood will accept a position with the California state government. Blood will end his second term as Utah governor Jan. 6 when he i3 succeeded by Herbert B. Maw. Blood was not a candidate for renomination this fall. Who'd Like -to Pump This Job Up? I " ' i A - r.'l It ' 'V.':' ' r" The worlds largest airplane has to semblies and here's one of them. Built for the monster Air Corps Bomber B-19, this tire and wheel are 9G inches in diameter and welgbt 2700 pounds just about 23 times the tize of Dorothy Rush, who Is stand ing beside the assembly. FRUITGROWERS ELECT OFFICERS Reorganization of the Utah County Horticultural society featured fea-tured the closing session of the annual convention of county fruit growers here Monday afternoon. J, ,Erval ChrLstensen, instructor at Lincoln high school and fruit grower of Orem, Was re-elected president. Other officers named are Otto B. Erlandson of Payson, vice president; A. Ray ESins of Pleasant View, secretary, and R. W. McMullin of Payson, legal adviser. ad-viser. Nearly 100 fruit growers attended at-tended and didcussod various phases of the fruit-growing industry, indus-try, particularly marketing problems. prob-lems. : In round table discussions. j they favored supporting both the federal marketing agreement and a proposed state marketing agreement. agree-ment. Dr. Arvil Stark, extension horticulturist hor-ticulturist of the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, was main speaker both in the morning and after noon. Upon questioning by T. Earl Foote of Pleasant View, state representative, ' he explained the proposed state marketing agreement would protect the consumers con-sumers as well as the producers, the consumer against extremely high prices and the producers against extremely low prices. LeGrand Jarman of Orem, executive secretary of the Utah County Farm Bureau, spoke briefly, brief-ly, and a report of activities of the county berry growers' organization organiza-tion was given by S. R. Boswell, county agent. Cherry and peach growers voted to hold special meetings in January to consider their specific marketing problems separately. Cherry growers will plan ways to deal co-operatively with the canneries can-neries to negotiate a better contract con-tract than the 2 cents per, pound contract offered this year, accord ing to Assistant County Agent Clarence D. Ashton, who was in charge of the convention. r- Blood Is former president of the North Davis (Utah) stake of the church and long has been active in Mormon affairs. In political affiliation, he is a Democrat. The president's office said no definite date had been set for Blood to take over his duties in the California mission. Blood himself him-self was not available immediately immediate-ly for comment. A former farmer and educator, Blood was manager of a Kaysville, Utah, milling concern when he was first appointed to the state road commission. He was elected governor in 1932. He is a native of Utah and is CS years old. J have the worlds largest wncel as SEVEN KILLED IN MINE BLAST BECKLKY, Va., Dec. 17 (U.R) The bodies of seven men were removed from the workings work-ings of the Kalclgh rnal mine this afternoon. . . . BECKLEY, XV. V., Dec. 17 ,U.E An explosion tore up one section of the Raleigh Coal and Coke corporation's cor-poration's No. 4 mine at Raleigh today,- trapping a half ' dozen miners. The explosion was believed to have resulted f rom a . coal - dust accumlation. An employe of the mine said five injured men had been removed re-moved from the mine. He said they were nearer the entrance than those who wore trapped, and they h;'d been burned seriously. Rescue crews started arriving at the mine from nearby communities com-munities in thi3 southern West Virginia bituminous field. The mine is known as a "drifts mine because it bores almost straight into the hillside. The mine normally employs 100 men, of which aoout 45 are on the day shift. k Robinson Files Claim for Utah - , WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U.R) Rep. J. XV. Robinson, D., Utah, has introduced a bill to appropriate appropri-ate $49,SGO to pay a Utah claim against the government for money received by the United States from the Independent Coal and Coke Co. for coal taken wrongfully from land in that state. Burns Fatal To Monroe Resident MONROE, Utah. Dec. 17 (U.P) Funeral services were being arranged ar-ranged today, for Dave Harmon, 21, Monroe, who died in Sevier Valley hospital yesterday, of burns suffered last week when a stove, in which they were starting start-ing a fire with oil-soaked cloths, exploded. This Day . . . BORN Boy, to George H. and Lola Hatch Coomes, Saturday,, LICENSED TO MARRY Grant Taylor, 23. Provo, and Marjorie Huish, 20, Provo. Mark Strong, legal age. Spring-ville, Spring-ville, and Mary Billings, legal age, Springville. Melvin Draper, lcjaral age, Provo, and Afton Prestwich, legal , age, Orem. BRITISH AS!! FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Movement Gains Favor For Outright Gift To England ' Bv L.YLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U.R) Formal British request for American financial assistance assist-ance today confronted President Presi-dent Roosevelt with a pnT lem suddenly and acutely complicated by the question whether there should be loans or outright gifts. A movement for outright gifts is developing some momentum coincident co-incident with hints of dramatic action to step up national re-ar-mamcnt. - Delegation of farreaching powers pow-ers among persons responsible for national defens eia being discussed by administration advisors, along with increasing evdence of interest inter-est in a new and unlimited national na-tional emergency proclamation. To Ask Congress-Statements Congress-Statements by Mr. Roosevelt's subordinates indicate no move will be made on British credits without with-out congressional authorization. But the British press service In New York indicated last night that Britain's formal application for financial assistance "would not necessarily take the form of a "Moan." Attributing Its explanation explana-tion to 'British official circles." it said the question of aid was one of "dollar exchange not independent independ-ent but flowing directly from Britain's need for American airplanes,- ships, munitions and other materials. . Dollar exchange maneuvers mgiht involve purchase by the United States of British - owned American securities. Another method of furnishing Britain with dollars' might involve use of the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund to purchase pounds, if, congress approved. The proposal for outright gifts to Britain was made here over the weekend by Alf M. Landon, 193(J Republican presidential candidate. It was endorsed yesterday by Mrs. Roosevelt. Sen. Robert A. , Taf t, R., O., proposed secured loans, instead, in-stead, explaining Britain has sufficient suf-ficient assets here to provide satisfactory sat-isfactory collateral. But he said outright gift? would be preferable to unsecured loans. Gasoline Tanks Blow Up; $15,000 Loss At Milford MILFORD, Utah, Dec. 17 (U.P--An explosion in the Utah Oil Refinery Re-finery company's storage plant here early today hurled 30,000 gallons of burning gasoline over a 100 foot radius and destroyed the storage building and three tanks. Damage was estimated at $15,000. Officials of the oil company said the blast probably was caused by defective wiring or sparks from a pump being used to empty a tank car into one of the" storage tanks. No one was injured. in-jured. Legion To Hold Christmas Party A Christmas party at the armory ar-mory Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. will take the place of the regular regu-lar meeting of the Provo American Ameri-can Legion post, according to Commander K. W. Bailey. - ULUL4TfON MEANING- THE C OF LATE $UOPPeQ. YOU'VE 44a4GC, ' SHOPPING DAYS TIUCHaiSTMAS MM Maw Proposes To Take Auto License Funds Away From The Cities I IT II i Governor-elect Outlines His Views On Remodeling Re-modeling the State Government at Conference Con-ference With Utah Municipal League . Remodel ing of the Utah state government to reduce the tax burden on the citizenry will be asked of the 1941 legislature legisla-ture by Herbert B. Maw, the governor-elect, told the Utah Municipal league Monday. In an address that met with only partial approval of the city official's present, Mr. Maw said he would seek to reorganize re-organize the state setup, replacing the present 122 state agencies with only 15 such departments. Saving Claimed ; Tlirco Injured As Gars Collide Gn Slippery Highway Three persons suffered serious injuries in a two-car accident on U. S. highway 91 at Orem at 1:15 p. m. today. Injured were Weston Kofford, 22, of Orem, possible crushed chest; Lenore Pyne, 21, of Orem, possible broken ankle, bruises and shock, and Mrs. Herbert Coleman, 25, of Provo, cuts and bruises. Deputy Sheriff George Loveless said Kofford and M iss Pyne were riding south in a new sedan, belonging be-longing to Clifton Pyne, father of the girl. Kofford was reportedly driving.' The sedan apparently skidded on the slick road into the path of a northbound car driven by Mrs. Coleman. The accident occurred at the east edge of the pavement, Deputy Depu-ty Loveless said. Both cars were badly damaged. The injured were taken to the Utah Valley hospital. U. P. PUTS 27 LiEfJ TO WORK After being closed the past month, the Union pacific "tuck shop" at Third East and Tenth South was opened today, with 27 men, including every man on the furlough list, put back to work, according to company officials. The shop was reopened to do heavy repair work on Union Pacific Pa-cific and Utah Railway locomotives locomo-tives and is expected to remain open. The crews will "-'work full-time, full-time, eight hours per day, six days per week. This brings the total men employed at the roundhouse and shops to 125, officials said. Five Perish In Blaze At Home JOHNSTOWN-, Pa., Dec. 17 (U.R) Five persons died today when fire destroyed a home in rural Mineral Point, eight miles north of here. The victims were Mrs. Ethel Marie Bartlebaugh, 24, wife of John Bartlebaugh, and her two children, Mrytle, 4, and John Iewis, two months, and two children chil-dren of Robert Bartlebaugh, a brother of John, Ruth Pearl, 12, and Betty Jane, 5. The fire originated in a kitchen coal stove. Maeser Students Inviting Parents Parents of Maeser school children are invited to attend the annual Christmas entertainment Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the school auditorium which includes the presentation of two Christmas Christ-mas plays, "The - Christ Child," and the "Lazy Elk." Fifth grade Children are staging stag-ing the two plays, according to Marion Olsen. instructor. Tunnel "Holing-Through" Expected This Afternoon Crews excavating in the Alpine-Draper Alpine-Draper tunnel, a unit of the Provo river project, expected to "hole through" thi3 afternoon or evening, eve-ning, completing the excavation of the 15,000-foot tunnel. But a few feet of rock this morning remained between the two crews, which have been working work-ing from both the Alpine and Draper ends, according to U. S. reclamation bureau officials. Through simplification of the administration and elimination of waste and duplication of effort, $5,000,000 of the $30,000,000 now being expended annually can be saved without reducing the efficiency ef-ficiency of government, the governor-elect declared. Mr. Maw noted that of the annual an-nual expenditure, less than $4,-000.000 $4,-000.000 is budgeted by the legislature. legisla-ture. . "Such uncontrolled spending spend-ing brings on waste, inefficiency and the opportunity for graft. There is no question but what this can be reduced, and In my message mes-sage to the legislature, I will wholeheartedly recommend such a reorganization because we must eliminate waste." Mr. Maw promised that the state will join wholeheartedly with cities and counties in "running the business of government,'' for which he was commended by the city officers, but he struck a note of discord among the group when he said he proposed to uae the $800,000 in auto license revenue which has been going to cities and counties the past four years, for other purposes. . , Promotion Indicated This money he would use, he indicated, to promote development of new Utah industries, such as the rock asphalt industry. In a meeting that followed Mr. Maw's talk, the Municipal League passed a motion to oppose any suggestion of taking "any portion ot the license money away from the cities and countiea, and that the1 representatives and senators from the various localities bo contacted and urged to protect the cities and counties with respect re-spect to this matter." Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo, Pro-vo, president of the league, who presided at the meeting, eaid: "We certainly favor a program of gov-( gov-( Continued on Page Three Welfare Office Will Give Names For Santa Subs Local groups who desire to enter into the Christmas spirit as subs for Santa, have been invited to obtain names of families in need from the Utah county welfare office, of-fice, according to W. II. Callahan, manager. In past years, there has often been duplication where some families fam-ilies received gifts from a number of groups while others were entirely en-tirely overlooked. In order to avoid injustice of this kind it has been suggested that all groups engaged in subbing for Santa activities, obtain the names of the families needing help through the welfare office. In this connection it might be well to point out that there has often existed a misapprehension in some minds, that those on public pub-lic relief are' taken care of by public agencies for Christmas. This is not the case, as the relief consists only of bare necessities, and does not include any of the extras that everyone associates with the Christmas holidays. TOWNSEND CLUB Reorganization of the Town-send Town-send club will be completed at a meeting Wednesday at 7 p. m. in the city courtroom. A hole was drilled through the remaining portion to be excavated, destroying any doubts that the two ends of the tunnel would meet, and vindicating the engineers. en-gineers. The tunnel will be lined with concrete following completion of the excavation. G. K. Thompson is the contractor. HITLER EtWOY COWERS WITH FRENCH CHIEF Otto Abetz Confers With Petain and Deposed Laval Bulletin: VIQHY, Dec. 17 (U.R) An pfficial announcement tonight to-night said Marshal Henri Philippe Petain today received re-ceived Pierre -Laval, ousted vice premier, to discuss "the general situation." By JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Adolf Hitler moved swiftly and forcefully into the mysterious mys-terious governmental eruption erup-tion in defeated France today, to-day, while Britain's desert armies pounded at the Italian base at Bardia and British bombers blasted German targets tar-gets at Mannheim, Bordeaux and the French invasion ports. In the crowded little French capital of Vichy, Hitler's ambassadorial ambassa-dorial representative, Otto Abetz, brought about the release of ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval and conferred with Marshal Henri Philippic Petain on how France would carry on collaboration with the Nazi "new order'' in Europe. Brings Armed Guard The visit of Abetz (surrounded by German soldiers with sub-machine guns) to Vichy and the unsolved un-solved mystery of France's future role in the war, . overshadowed further gains by the British on the north African front in Libya, and slow Greek advances through the Albanian mountains. British empire reinforcements rushing through Egypt and into Libya were reported keeping up the momentum of the offensive in which the army of the Nile drove Italians from Egypt and struck at the coastal base of Bardia, which some military sources in London believed might already .have fallen. fall-en. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , warned again that a cautious attitude should be taken toward the north African offen sive, but he remarked confidently that although Britain did not celebrate cele-brate many big victories in the World war, most people were sat isfied with its outcome. British Attack-Weather Attack-Weather conditions; following sand storms and rain, were improved im-proved in the Libyan desert and British air forces were strongly attacking all Fascist bases along (Continued on Tage Three) Spy Hanged In British Prison LONDON. Dec. 17 r.m Charles Van Den Kieboom, 2G, a Netherlands Nether-lands subject, was hanged at Pen-tonville Pen-tonville prison here today as a German spy the third enemy agent to be executed within a week. Like Jose VVladberg and Karo Heier, hang'(ed at Pentonville a week ago, Kieboom had come here to await a German invasion, and like them he was equipped with a portable radio transmitter to send messages to Germany or German occupied territory regarding regard-ing military matters. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUHXEN "I feel sorry for Emily. She bent over a washboard for years; and now that she can afford an electric washer, wash-er, she feels too proud to do her own work." |