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Show "ill t -p fi The Weather " UTAH Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday; scattered light rains; slightly cooler Thursday-. Maximum Temp. Tuesday . 40 Minimum Temp. Tuesday .... 11 Z?wi7 rai County By Patronizing Local Stores and Business Houses j u w lj v-lj lj vv FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 120 I UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF tSA.LT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940 complete united press rT?Tr,T? TTTIT'T? PtrMTQ TELEPORAPII KEWS SERVICE DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOa LJ. ; u y-. s Vi . - rr -v Li w V-lU LJ j UJ-lUS)Lb Newspapers are usually glad to print letters from readers for two reasons: (1) They are a forum, a means of expression for people who might otherwise be unable to speak, and (2) other people like to read 'em. Abusive and scurrilous letters let-ters can't be printed. That's because the law prohibits it. 'Law makes responsible not he who writes, but he who pub-A-lishes. The true name of the writer is required simply as an evidence of good faith. A smart New York publicity pub-licity firm is now trying to take advantage of the letter privilege. Let's say it has Maisie Dishface, movie sfar, as a client. It writes a sample sam-ple letter saying, "r thought Maisie Dishface was marvelous marvel-ous in 'Hot Hearts.' She brought home a great moral lesson to our people." It then distributes that letter to people who are supposed to - copy it and send it to local papers pa-pers under their own names. For every three letters these "clients" succeed in nutting over, the agency pays $1, plus postage. Readers sometimes wonder why editors insist on checking check-ing and reserving the right to -reject letters to the editor. This new dodge shows why. Some super-smart New York press agent has injured every newspaper reader to whom his "letters" column was a means of getting his honest opinions into print. v Sense and -Non-sense: A COtinlp ftf windnnr nnnnnro in . - w V A ' I V II , 1 l I V. 1 ill Indiana drew three-month sentences'. Long time no see! . . . Mother-often spends as much time fretting about her figure at home as dad does about his at the bank. . . . The little folks think the best rule at Christmas time is tTTe" one with a Santa clause in it. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Phil Murray Startles Backers by Favoring Henchmen of John L. Lewis; New CIO Chief, Elected by Anti-Red Faction, Fails To "Clean House;" Friendly With-Old Foe, Lee Pressman ; ' Gives Haywood Two Extra Posts; Lothian Had No Doctor. WASHINGTON New CIO president pres-ident Phil Murray has hi3 anti-red anti-red supporters baffled. At the Atlantic City convention he balked for several days at taking; tak-ing; the office because he could not get assurances of a free hand from the left-wing Lewis faction. : Finally, through the timely leadership leader-ship of Sidney Hillman, this promise prom-ise was won for Murray and he was elected clear of any restraints to clean house. Murray's backers did not expect liim to start purging at once. They figured it would take him several months to get the reins firmly in his grasp. But Murray has moved faster and in an entirely different direction that they expected- Instead In-stead of starting to reorganize, he apparently is entrenching John L. Lewis' henchmen more strongly than before. Murray's first move has been to give Allan S. Haywood, director di-rector of organizers (one of the most strategic positions in the CIO), two additional jobs head of the United Federal Workers and boss of the local industrial unions. . ONE WHO BACKED WILLKIE ! To the anti-Lewisites, Haywood is poison. He is not a left-winger, but he Is completely under Lewis' thumb. When John L. bolted to Willkie, Haywood not only was one of the few consequential CIO officials who followed him, but went overboard in a big way. Haywood made a speech for Willkie especially for the purpose (Continued on Page Three; TWO UTAISHS KILLED li! TRAIN CRASH Passenger Train Rams Into Caboose of Freight Train SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 18 (U.R) Two trainmen were killed and at least'' one injured in-jured seriously today when a Union Pacific passenger train collided with th caboose of a standing freight train in the Salt Lake City .yards. The dead: William Floyd McCumber, freight brakeman, Garfield, Utah. C. N. William, ' freight conductor, con-ductor, Bountiful, Utah. Injured was George C. Rogers, Salt Lake City, also a trainman. Hospital attendants said he had a broken right wrist and severe contusions of the body. Officers said McCumber and Williams were seated in the caboose ca-boose of the train when the passenger pas-senger engine plowed into the rear of the freight. Tracks Were Icy Tracks were icy as a result of a light rain last night that had frozen early this morning.. . Visibility Visi-bility waa reduced by fog and smoke to less than 100 feet. The passenger train, which left Los Angeles last night, was just pulling into the Salt Lake City yards of the Union Pacific when it struck the freight. A wrist watch on Williams' arm was stopped at 6:15 a. m. Three of the freight cars were derailed. One of them was a car or oranges and the fruit wa3 spread over the yards. Engineer A. P. Olson of the passenger pas-senger train said he was coming into the yards slowly when the rear of the freight train "loomed suddenly before me." McCumber wa3 on his way to work in another part of the yards and had stopped at the freight caboose ca-boose to "hitch-hike", a ride to his own post and to visit with Williams, Wil-liams, who was on duty at the time. - The passenger engine was derailed de-railed as it struck the caboose but all passenger cars remained on the tracks after the impact. However, How-ever, when a wrecking crew was placing the passenger engine back on the rails, a passenger car was derailed, but company officials said none was injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment. treat-ment. - Former Librarian Dies in Salt Lake Mrs. Annie L- Gillespie, for many years librarian at the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university, died early today at the Sarah Daft home for the aged in Salt Lake City, according ac-cording to word received in Provo today. ' The Defense of Truth" To Be Leadership Week Theme "The Defense of Truth" will bej the theme of the twentieth annual an-nual Leadership week at Brigham Younj,' university January 27-31. according to President Franklin S. Harris. Approval of the theme, around which the general assemblies assem-blies and many departmental sessions ses-sions will center, has been given by the board of trustees. "The world is now thinking in terms of defense," explained President Presi-dent Harris," and we want to know what is worth defending. Somethings are worth cherishing and fostering to the utmost. In these days there are so many attempts at-tempts to becloud the real issues and advocate false principles that jt seems expedient to have such a theme." Leadership Week is an adult education project which President Harris launched in 1922, primarily Heads Group it A 5 - f r V v V With industrial production the keynote of national defense, Walter D. Fuller, above, President Presi-dent of the Curtis Publishing Co., found himself saddled with huge responsibilities as the National Na-tional Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers chose him their president at recent New York convention. Aqueduct Tonnel Grcivs 'Hob Thru'; Accuracy1 -Shown':''' Thompson-Markham company, contractor for the Alpine-Draper tunnel, today was preparing to line the 15,000-foot cylinder with concrete, following completion of excavation Tuesday, i Crews laboring 700 feet under ground and some 8000 feet inside the tunnel holed through at 3:16 p. m., yesterday afternoon, when E. O. Larson, construction engineer, engi-neer, for the bureau of reclamation reclama-tion was given the honor of touching touch-ing off the explosive that blasted away the fiual barrier between the Alpine side and the Draper side, of the tunnel. After the two ends of the tunnel had been merged into one large cylinder, the instrument men rushed to the scene of the final blast and found they had been accurate in their calculations. calcula-tions. Arnold Marston, working from the Alpine side, and George H. Tingley, operating from the Draper Dra-per side, the two instrument men for- the reclamation bureau, found they had missed the exact center of the tunnel by but a fraction of an inch for altitude and only ZVj inches in horizontal distance. Holing through on the tunnel, (Continued on Page Eight) Children to Stage Christmas Play In keeping with the holiday season, sea-son, the Children's Theater will present "The Birds' Christmas Carol," tonight at 8 o'clock in the Fourth ward amusement hall, under un-der the direction of Helen Dixon i and Irma Acord. There will be a small admission charge. to fcivc parents of college students stu-dents a week of the best that the university had to offer. Besides those parents, many community leaders in social and religious affairs af-fairs attend. "Religion is eo important at B. Y. U. that it occupies a leading lead-ing place in the programs," President Presi-dent Harris pointed out. "The week provides much religious stimulation and information given by Church leaders and faculty members. But guidance is given in scores of modern problems of home, health, farm, and business." Cultural advantages of university univer-sity life are presented in vocal and instrumental concerts, plays, art exhibits and similar features. " More than 30 "short courses," each offering from five to ten lectures, lec-tures, group discussions, or demonstrations, dem-onstrations, are being listed by the Extension Division, rK)p wv7'nn '?'p Zj J YjVI lAjLzj UCEMAIl APPOINTED FIRE CHIEF City Commission Appro- ves Appcmtment of Finlayson Earl T. Finlayson,, Provo policeman for the past four years, today was appointed by the city commission as Chief of the Provo City fire department, to succeed Scott Thompson, The appointment fo owed a meeting of the Provo civil serv- 1Ce com M .iuud, al which authorization was given Mr. Finlayson to accept the post with- out losing nus seniority anu t;lvl1 I service ranking in the police de-1 parcmcm lor. a yeai. G??fcivirs'ervce board passed to be expanding, with the chief a moUon granSg i? Finson attacks by land sea and air forces a leave of Absence for one year, in direcT1 against the defenses of which he shall retain his position he y&nth C??Le J in the classified civil service sub- but with ind cations of a new ject to the rules and regulatons ths l ItaUfn., ?'aM'f of civil service j exiled EmPeror H.aile Selassie can With selection of Mr. Finlayson rally rebels against the fascists, as fire chief, a vacancy in the plne Ld Attack police department was created .UR- tA- F- P,ar were leading that will likely be filled within the attack on both the Albanian the next few days. fnd Libyan fronts where they The new police department ap- fiercely bombed. Italian bases and pointce must be selected from the reported that fascists were re-three re-three top men on the approved treating from Bardia toward civil service list Kenner B. Clay- Erna. About two Italian divis-ton, divis-ton, Fred D. Loveless and Bryan lons were reported bottled up at J. Cox. Bardia by the British circling Police Chief Guy F. Christensen tactics in which tanks and mech- said today he plans to recommend anized units led the desert at- to the city commission the ap- tack. pointment of Mr. Loveless, in view threat of a German inva-of inva-of the fact that Loveless has had slon continued to worry British previous experience in the depart- officials even in mid-winter and ment and appears well qualified. their difficulties were intensified 13 Applicant r by protests, organized by corn-Mr. corn-Mr. Finlayson, according' to munists, aganist increased food Mayor Mark Anderson, was c- prices and a shortage of milk in lected from some 15 applicants London. A rowdy scene occurred for the fire chief's post. at the ministry of food When a Mr. Finlayson will be Pent lo group of women protested .to a Logan, Salt Lake City, and Og- ministry spokesman, demanding den for a brief study on fire dc- "more and cheaper milk." The partment operation before taking German radio projmganda quick- (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Eight) . , i) : . Funds Will Be Needed To Support Hospital The problem of raising money to offset the annual Utah Valley hospital operating deficit was aired by executive committeemen com-mitteemen of the hospital board of directors at a meeting with Miss Mildred F. Walker, Although the predicted deficit has been almost halved, it will require re-quire an estimated $8000 a year in addition to the present income to maintain the hospital's charity and various other services for the broad area served, ' Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of the board, said. Officials of the Commonwealth Fund, which made the hospital possible by making a huge grant, had predicted a possible annual deficit of $12,000 to $15,000 during dur-ing the years the hospital was establishing es-tablishing itself in the community. Mias Walker pointed out tfiere is hope the annual deficit can Be reduced, noting that the institution institu-tion has been used only 58 per cent of capacity during the past year, and only 5-1.2 per cent during the (Continued on Page Kight) a $ FOR VOW THAT YOU M40E DO TO G-ET SHOPPING' DONE 7ER THE LA5T MiNUTe 42.U5-H CT SHOPPING DAYS Till CHaiSTMAS (ho "Sr5- n I iT-f -mi lrj Roosevelt Proposes Lease-LoafcP?ograrn For Aid To Britain British Fear New Invasion Attempt Soon by joe alex morris Foreign News Editor British and Greek armed fore- es reported slow but steady pro- fnl Libya d Albania3 od ay dispatches "hinted persis- tcnt that fearg of a new and greater Gerraan invasion plans mounting " in the British capital peration8 of the British im rial fmW, in AfHc nnnenrerl superintendent, Tuesday night. BUS TIPS OVER SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 18 (L'.H) A Bamberger bus, carrying 21 persons from Ogden and way points to Salt Lake City, tipped over when it skidded on icy pavement pave-ment rear the northern city limits lim-its of Salt Lake City today, injuring in-juring several persons but none seriously. Mrs. Alvin Schofield. 43, Cen-terville, Cen-terville, suffered a broken jaw and was treated at the police emergency em-ergency hospital here. The emergency emer-gency hospital said minor injuries had also been reported by Mrs. Schofield's 17-year-old daughter, Helen, and by Mrs. Alfred Axt-tez, Axt-tez, believed to be from Ogden. Julian Bamberger, head of the transportation company operating the bus, said the vehicle was stopping stop-ping at, a railroad crossing in conformity with safety regulations regula-tions when the heavy machine (Continued on Page Eight) Tltis Day . . . BORN ' Girl, to Ralph Vardell and Myrl Florence Faucett Anderson, Sunday. Sun-day. Boy, to Archie and Margaret Cook Baxter of Pleasant Grove, Tuesday. Girl, to Kenneth E. anfl Mary Coltrin McEwan of Orem, today. .AY INJURED ran mp n oi V i New PJan Sure To Encounter Much Controversy WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U.R) Short-of-war aid to Britain is headed today toward to-ward its maximum limits-President limits-President Roosevelt is exploring ex-ploring a program of paying for and loaning or leasing to the British all types of armaments arma-ments except naval vessels. Merchant vessels bulk large In the contemplated program. Any vessel, plane or munition, advanced ad-vanced on loan would be covered by a mortgage. Mr. Roosevelt is confident that that could be done without increasing in-creasing the danger of the -United States being involved in war. He revealed, also, at yesterday's press conference, that there , are two or three cases of industrial non-co-operation which are under investigation in connection with his power to take over such facilities facili-ties to obtain the maximum national na-tional defense effo"rL Controversy Certain , " The lease-loan plan invites na tional, debate.- aM, bitter congressional congres-sional controversy." It was , outlined out-lined shortly after Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.. informed the house appropriations committee that ; British officials say they cannot order further armaments ar-maments here without financial assistance. Scattering congressional reaction reac-tion foreshadowed the dispute to come if Mr. Roosevelt seeks from congress next month the legislation legisla-tion and appropriations which (Continued on Page Kight) Tivoliiifjs , ASKED TO GO WASHINGTON, Dec-lfi i;.D A Hungarian princess who is a friend of high Nazi officials and a young German -student at Denver Den-ver university today faced possibility possi-bility of long voyages across the Pacific ocean and Asia to comply with a justice department order to leave the United States. Unless some other country of fers them refuge, they must either return to the country issuing issu-ing their passports Hungary ana Germany or face deportation proceedings. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson announced Princess Ste-fanie Ste-fanie Hohenlohe - Waldenburg -Schillingsfurst of Hungary, said to have been the leading Nazi hostess in London prior to the war, and Karl Scheuring, 18-year-old Nazi sympathizer, had been denied applications fcf renewal of their permits to visit this country. The princess wa3 ordered by the immigration ' and naturalization service, at the request of Jackson, to leave by Saturday; Scheuring by Dec. 26. Scheuring told reporters in Denver Den-ver he would return to Germany "if that is the order, but it looks like I will have to grow wings and fly." He said he might sail on a Japanese boat. The princess' plan. were not known, but it was reported in Kan Francisco that she was "somewhere "some-where in the San Francisco bay area, presumably preparing to leave the country." Driver Runs Ditch To NEPHI, Utah. Dec. IS fU.D A Burlington Trailways passenger bus, bound from Los Angeles to Salt Lake .City, was deliberately driven into a ditch eight miles south of here today when the driver decided that to "take to the shoulder" was the only means of avoiding an accident. None of the eight passengers were Injured. i UJI 0 UN - Hear Winant May Succeed Kennedy A "'jaw A ...iKik.wjl Bruce Catton, NEA Service Washington correspondent for this newspaper, reports John G. Winant. above, former governor gover-nor of New Hampshire and now director of the International Labor Office, is in the lead to succeed Joe Kennedy as ambassador ambas-sador to Britain. Giiizens' Apathy In Garbago Poll ay Dafcat Plan Only about 25 per cent 4 the homes in Provo have to date indicated in-dicated a willingness to cooperate in the city's proposed garbage and refuse disposal plan, and unless wider support is gained, the plan cannot be undertaken, Mayor Mark Anderson said today. to-day. Of those that have . replied to questionnaires mailed out a decided de-cided majority 'favor the plan but approximately 60 per cent of the residents have failed to show sufficient interest to reply, the mayor said. Results Revealed ' Actual figures furnished by Jerry Bybee of the department of utilities, who is conducting the survey, indicate 2013 of some 5000 questionnaires mailed out have been returned. Of this number num-ber 1291 favor the garbage disposal dis-posal plan while 722 are opposed. The picture is much brighter in the business district, Mr. By-bee By-bee pointed out, as 60 of the 63 business houses contacted agreed to support the system. Commenting on the survey in the residentiar section. Mayor Anderson An-derson said the city cannot assume as-sume that the silent 60 per cent is for the plan. "We must ' assume as-sume that these people do not want the service and are unwilling unwill-ing to pay the proposed minimum fee of 36 cents per month. Cooperation Essential- "We have learned from our in-( in-( Continued on Page Eight) Coming Events KiwanLs, Thursday, 12:15 p. m.. Hotel Roberts. Speaker, Dr. L. E. McKell. "Dental Health." J. W. Dangerfield of the safety committee, com-mittee, will be chairman. 20-30 club. Thursday, 8 p. m., Hotel Roberts. Final plans for Christmas party to be formulated. Provo Elk, Thursday, 8 p. m., regular lodge. Lions club, no meeting. Thursday. Thurs-day. Christmas zone party, sponsored spon-sored by Provo club, Friday night, 7:30, at golf clubhouse. Bus Into Avert Crash Driver II. C. Hoggan of Salt Lake City, said he was proceeding slowly along the icy, fog-shrouded highway when a light passenger pas-senger car loomed in front of him. He said that if he had not swerved into the ditch the heavy bus probably would have smashed into the smaller car and killed or seriously injured its two occupants. ACTION KILLS MEASURE FOR THIS SESSION Bill Would Have Given Courts More Power Over Bureaus WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 ' (U.R) The house today sustained sus-tained President Roosevelt's veto of the Walter - Logan bill, which would have given the courts greater authority over administrative agencies of the government. Mr. Roosevelt returned the bill to the house at noon with a declaration decla-ration it "would produce the utmost ut-most chaos and paralysis in the administration of the government at this critical time." Debating An Hour The house voted immediately after hearing his message of disapproval dis-approval and debating it for an hour. Its action killed the bill for this session of congress an made a senate vote on the veto unnecessary. un-necessary. The vote was announced as 153 in favor of overriding the veto; and 128 for sustaining the veto. Those in favor of the bill thus fell short of the two-third majority major-ity necessary to enact a bill over a veto. "PresidentTRoosevelt told congress con-gress that behind this bill wero two forces: lawyers who desire alt processes of government to be conducted con-ducted through lawsuits, and interests in-terests who desire to escape regulation. regu-lation. . He said its enactment would "turn the clock backwards and place the entire functioning of the government at the mercy of never-ending lawsuits and subject all administrative acts and ftc cesses to the control of the judic iary." "Today," Mr. Roosevelt told congress, "in sustaining American ideals of justice, ah ounce of ac tion is worth more than a pound of argument. . . substantial justice remains a higher aim for our civilization civi-lization than technical legalism." During debate, Rep. John Oock-ran, Oock-ran, D., Mo-, pleaded with the house to delay enactment of any; such bill until the next congress. (Continued on Page Eight) Serum Fails to Arrive in Time To Save Teacher LEWISTON. Ida., Dec. 18 (CD-Lloyd (CD-Lloyd Berg, 29-year-old Lewiston high school teacher, died today of complications developing from influenza in-fluenza after an attempt was made to save his life by obtaining a new type of serum for influenza meningitis. ,Berg died before a shipment of the new serum could be flown from Portland, Ore. Berg became ill with influenza about two weeks ago, but his condition gradually became worse and meningitis developed. Search for the serum was conducted con-ducted by Jay Rosen burg, Boise newspaper reporter and friend of the stricken teacher. ... AUNT HET By ROBERT QUTLXXN f f F i "They might a well quarrel. are polite when they talk about money, but Uivlr voice shake enough to show how they feci." f'JS mm t i |
