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Show 11 x "(IT ' ! i -, o lUj A-co i f of ft) 1 J Hi I1! I1 1 PHl trv 1 tff O The Weather TTTAH: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Little change In temer-ature. temer-ature. .Maximum temp., Wednesday . 4.', Minimum temp., Wednesday . 24 Z?w7d rfai Countg By Patronizing Local Stores and Business House FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 121 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEPQRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR C3 &?i":T;v " '--':""" ---'-"-'-'-- n n 5) n.n n i in n n UvJ I flu! J lf So many people have had to eat their words during the past few years that verbal salad has become a staple article of diet. Opponents of Britain have been fond of saying, during the World War and at the beginning be-ginning of this one, that "Britain will fight to the last Frenchman." Well, it is six months since the last Frenchman as such passed from the active scene of the war. and the British are still fighting. What kind of an Idea would it be to stage a huge banquet, and have every person who has uttered that phrase face it, served up to him on a clean white dish as a first course? oOo Old Man's Advice A couple of ideas from a whitehaired friend who flidn't stop thinking when he retired re-tired from business 15 years ago : For people growing up: Don't let habits grow unconsciously; uncon-sciously; rather form them deliberately yourself. Living is nine-tenths habit, and you can control it nine-tenths by picking your habits, instead of the other way around. For people growing old: After 55 or 60 (or whenever you suspect you've reached the top of the hill physically) , don't go running to the doctor doc-tor for periodical check-ups-Discovery of natural progressive progres-sive degeneration won't do your morale any good. oOo "Which tooth troubles you, " Sam 'asked the dentist of his colored patron, and the latter promptly replied, "lower "low-er five, sah." GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and. ROBERT S. ALLEN "Croquet Clique" Induced Huff to Favor franco Loan; FDR Stopped It; British Cliveden Set Worked On U. S. Envoy Weddell To Put Over Ideaj Fire proofing Christmas Tree is Cinch if You Follow Expert's Advice. WASHINGTON The inside story of how the career boys nearly near-ly put over the $100,000,000 credit to Fascist Spain indicates the strength of "the croquet clique" inside the state department. This i3 the group which plays croquet almost every evening with Cordell Hull, and is equivalent to the "Cliveden "Cli-veden set" in Kngand. As a matter of fact, it was a part of the old Cliveden clique Lord Halifax and Sir Samuel Hoare who started the idea of helping General Franco. Sir Samuel Sam-uel Hoare is now British ambassador ambassa-dor to Spain, and it was he who sold the idea to American Ambassador Am-bassador Weddell, long famous for his ability to follow rather than lead. Lord Haf ax and Hoare apparently appar-ently thought it would be smart politics to get the United States to lend a hundred million dollars to (Continued on Page Three Calory Grouer o Oeport Progress Satisfaction with the accomplishments accom-plishments of the Utah Celery Cooperative Co-operative in its first year of operation oper-ation was expressed by members of the organization at a meeting Wednesday night. The growers present pledged to grow from three to five times as much acreage of celery next year as was produced this year, according accord-ing to Eldon McKell, secretary of the cooperative. Decision to hold a county celery convention, probably about December Decem-ber 27, was made, details to be worked out. President Clarence Durrant was in charge of the meeting. S. R. Boswell, county agent, praised the gVoup for their activities during the past season as a cooperative. UTAHN DIES in collision REAR UIDVALE Two Others Injured When Stalled Car Is Hit MIDVALE, Utah- Dec. 19 (U.R) A two-car collision on the main highway resulted in death to one person and in- . . A J ! juries to two otners nere early today. The victim was R. L. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, 23, Holliday, who was dead at the scene of the crash. Injured were Miss Mary Lee, 20, South Salt Lake, and Alva Fair-bourn, Fair-bourn, 28, Sandy. Both were reported re-ported in fair condition at a Salt Lake hospital. The accident occurred when Christensen attempted to crank his stalled automobile. The vehicle ve-hicle driven by Fairbourn side-swiped side-swiped the stalled machine, crushing crush-ing Christensen with, the Impact. Heavy Fog Menace On Utah Roads SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19 (UJ?) Warmer weather prevailed in Utah today, but a heavy fog which has contributed to at least three deaths still hung over .the Salt Lake City area and many othef sections of the state. The weather bureau saw no immediate im-mediate prospect for dispersal of the mists, which were described as "very dense." Airline officials said the fog had caused several trips to be routed directly from Denver to the Pacific coast. State and local traffic officers reported relatively few accidents today, compared to yesterday's heavy toll. Ice which glazed streets and highways thawed, eliminating one of the hazards of automobile travel. One fatality marred the day, however. R. L. Christenson, 28, of Salt Lake county, was killed near Midvale while trying to crank his stalled car. A machine driven by Alva Fairbourn. 28, Sandy, crash ed into the Christenson automo bile. Meanwhile, a formal inquiry into in-to the deaths of two railway employes em-ployes was scheduled by the Union Pacific Company. The men, W. F. McCumber, 62, Salt Lake City, and C. N. Williams, 40, Bounti ful, were killed early yesterday when a northbound passenger train plowed into the caboose of a freight in the yards here. Both men were riding in the wrecked car, along with George C. Rodg-ers, Rodg-ers, who was seriously injured. Nineteen persons hurt in two bus crashes yesterday were reported re-ported improving. None was injured in-jured seriously. Fifteen of the victims vic-tims were occupants of a Bamberger Bam-berger line bus which overturned on icy pavement near Salt Lake Cityr'The other four were en route to Los Angeles aboard a Burlington Trailways bus which rolled over near Levan, in Juab county. ((ALLIO DIES IN FINLAND HELSINKI, Dec. 19 (U.P) Kyosti Kallio, 67, president of Finland' during tne critical days or ner war with Soviet Russia, died tonight to-night a few hours after Finnish electors had named his successor to the presidency. Kallio had resigned the high office because of illness and today Finnish electors met and named Premier Risto Ryti to the presidency. presi-dency. Tonight as he waited on a railroad rail-road station platform to take a train for his country home at Ni-vala, Ni-vala, near Vasa, Kallio was stricken strick-en with a heart attack and collapsed. col-lapsed. He quit the presidency only three weeks ago, tendering his resignation Nov. 28 after serving three and a half years of hia six-year six-year term. He had suffered a critical heart attack in August and only his strong Finnish peasant constitution constitu-tion enabled him to pull through the illness. Where 12 Died in Tenement Explosion r XT nr. i I Ik w- Wreckage of a three-story tenement persons were killed and 10 injured structure. Firemen search through f ' j ) ;i Chqmberof Commerce i Elects Seven Directors The Provo chamber of commerce 15-man board of directors direc-tors for 1941 today had been completed, following trie election elec-tion of seven members Wednesday night. Among fhe se'ven directors named for two-year terms are four who were reelected, hav Hid Sought to fiaisc Funds for National Guard Letters to civic club presidents and leaders of other civic agencies agen-cies inviting them to meet with the chamber of commerce to devise de-vise plans for an event designed to raise funds for the Utah regiments regi-ments of the national guard which leave in January for encampment at San Luis Obispo were mailed today by Secretary Clayton Jenkins. Jen-kins. The chamber of commerce was requested to take the lead in staging a dance, musical, athletic carnival or some other event by H. S. Jennings, chairman of the national guard regiment fund committee. Funds raised will be used for "extras" not provided by the government gov-ernment at the encampment, such as sports equipment, money for social activities, and other things to make the duties of the guard more pleasant, Mr. Jenkins said. The regiment fund committee hopes to raise $15,000 in Utah. The meeting of civic organization organiza-tion representatives with the chamber of commerce has tentatively tenta-tively been set for December 27. The benefit event would be staged early in January. 15 TOtfWNDCW Win G-IFTS ON DISPLAY, STOP in j4ND Buy eM, NNITU NO MO&E DELAY. SHOPPING DAYS i f- '''' 'I u ' J TIU CHRISTMAS I A V V vvOv v - - - .- J." -v ; I V" 'yA I: 1 NEA Tclephoto) dwelling in Cincinnati, O., where 12 in an explosion that shattered thB the debris for more victims. ing served the past two years. They are Clyde P. Crockett, V.J. Bird, C. T. Keigley and J. C. Mof-fitt. Mof-fitt. . - The three new directors are George S. Ballif, E. D. Firmage and E. B. Shriver. ' In heavy and very close balloting, ballot-ing, the seven won over the following fol-lowing other candidates: John O, Beesley, K. D. Craven, Mark D. : I PICTURES-ON" PACK TWO : Egger'tsen, Frank T. Gardner, Alex Hedquist, ,W. C. LaBrache and R. A. Mooreflcld. Mr. Beesley, Mr. Hedquist and Mr. Moorefield are just completing complet-ing terms on the board. In addition to the seven men elected Wednesday night, the board of directors includes P. E. Ashton, Wyman Berg, Frank J. Earl, M. Howard Graham, Aura C. Hatch, S. W. Russell and Clifton Tolboe, holdover directors, and Ernest R. Rasmuson, appointed appoint-ed by the board to fill the unexpired un-expired term of Allan D. Johnson who has moved to Salt Lake City. Clayton Jenkins, chamber of commerce secretary, said today the new directors will be installed install-ed at the first meeting of the board in January. At the same time, the directors likely will elect their 1941 officers. Judges of the election were Mr. Rasmuson, Arch Madsen and Roy Hudson, assisted by Mr. Jenkins. Thomas Continues As Idaho Senator WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U.E Sen. John Thomas, R., Ida., was sworn in today to continue his service as the successor of the late Sen. William E. Borah, who died last spring. Thomas was elected to serve the two years left in Borah's term, beginning be-ginning Jan. 3, 1941. Rep. Mon C. Wallgren, D., Wash., took the oath to succeed Lewis B. Schwellenback in the senate. Schwellenbach resigned to become a U. S. district judge. FRANK CONDON, WRITER, DIES BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Dec. 19 (L'.Rf Frank Condon, 56, magazine maga-zine writer, died at his home here today after a long illness. Condon .was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He engaged in the advertising advertis-ing business in New York for a year, then began writing for magazines. He wrote for the Saturday Sat-urday Evening Post and recently had been under contract to Collier's. Col-lier's. " MAYOR ASKS CITIES SHARE MOTOR FUiiDS Replies To Maw Plan Of Taking Funds From Cities Vigorous opposition to a suggestion by Herbert B. Maw that the policy of allocating allo-cating cities and countfes a portion of the auto license revenues be discontinued, was voiced by Mayor Mark Anderson Ander-son as president of the Municipal Muni-cipal League of Utah, in a letter to the governor-elect today. The mayor informed Dr. Maw of a motion passed by the League Monday opposing the governor-elect's governor-elect's views on the subject, as expressed at an earlier meeting the same day. Presents Views-He Views-He then presented his personal views, "which also represent in a general way opinions expressed by mayors and commissioners present at Monday's meeting," as follows: "In my opinion no tax money has been ' more appreciated or more appropriately used than the auto license revenues that have been distributed to cities and towns of Utah during the past three years. "The suggestion that any part of this fund has been wasted is inconceivable when no city of this state has ever had anywhere near sufficient funds to improve and maintain its streets up to the standards required by modern traffic. "The auto license revenues have done much to help cities and coun- ties Sioldup "their" ends of work relief projects for the past three years. If this money is taken from the cities and counties, unemployment un-employment will increase unless other sources of revenue are found by the sponsors. "The allocation of auto tax revenues to citfes seems a logical thing to do even though the tax must of necessity be collected by a state agency. "We will use Provo as an example. ex-ample. Most other Utah cities and towns have a situation comparable com-parable to ours. Provo residents have been paying about one hundred hun-dred and seventy thousand dollars annually to federal, state and county roads outside Provo. Not until the auto license revenues were allocated among cities and (Continued on Page Two) . ALUMNI BOARD HOLDS SESSION Suggestions on furthering the work of the B. Y. U. Alumni association as-sociation were offered by Dr. Franklin S. Harris president of the university, at a meeting of the board of directors, held in the president's office, Wednesday. President Harris urged the organization or-ganization of alumni classes and also geographical clubs throughout through-out the country, wherever graduates gradu-ates congregate. 13. S. Hinckley, president of the Alumni association, was in chargf of the meeting and the following board members attended: Dr. Richard R. Lyman, Junius M. Jackson, Salt Lake City; Mark K. Allen, American Fork; Dr. Loren C. Bryner, George S. Ballif, K. E. Weight, Fred Markham, Provo, and Cornelius Peterson, secretary. The president was authorized to appoint the following standing committees from the board: Membership, Mem-bership, finance, student enrollment, enroll-ment, and public relations. The next meeting will be held in Salt Lake City. Jan. 9. Retiring State Honored SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 19 U.f) Henry H. Blood and other members mem-bers of the retiring official family of Utah were honored last night by hundreds of friends and state officials at a farewell party in the capitol. The state administration was praised by speakers for its accomplishments accom-plishments in promoting the state's welfare during the last four years. Honored with the chief executive were Attorney General Joseph Chez and Auditor John W. Guy. Telegrams expressing the na Churchill Reveals Plan To Strike At Axis Powers In 1941 London Clears Its first Air kid Alarm in GO Urs. LONDON, Dec. 19 (U.R) London's Lon-don's first air raid alarm in more than 68 hours sounded soon after dark tonight by a day in which England's respite from air attacks had been punctuated by a bitter dogfight- over the capital. The roar of the aerial fighting marked yie first such disturbance near London since 11 p. m. Monday. Mon-day. Gunfire was 'Uieard from one London district soon after tonight's to-night's alarm had been sounded. Many planes zoomed as they participated in dogfights above the clouds and frequent bursts of machine gun fire were heard. Anti-aircraft guns put up an occasional oc-casional barrage. . First reports indicated that no bombs were dropped and after a time the noise of battle faded into the distance and quiet again settled set-tled over-London. DENTIST SPEAKS TO KIMIAfJS A plea for : support of every sound plan that will mean better llAfiltVi wn a m Vir Tl . T . IT McKell, jwho addressed the: Provo Kiwanis" club, of which he is vice president, on "Dental Eco nomics and Dental Health" today. Dr. McKell, in a comprehensive talk, urged that every step possible be taken to prevent dental defects, de-fects, declaring that no one can be in good health if he is dentally dental-ly ill. i Carl Law of the safety committee commit-tee was chairman of the meeting. Clarence Harmon, chairman of the annual Kiwanis Christmas-installation party scheduled Friday, December De-cember 27 at Hotel Roberts, assured as-sured an "outstanding time" for Kiwanians and their wives. President-elect George S. Ballif Bal-lif and Henry D. Taylor, secretary-elect, secretary-elect, announced appointment of 1941 committees as follows: Agriculture, rural and urban relations Harry J. Stagg, chairman; chair-man; John O. Beesley, W. Earl Gadd, James George Stratton. Attendance, house and receptionHomer recep-tionHomer R. , Bandley, chairman, chair-man, Bert Crane, John S. Van Cott, Andrew Broaddus. Boys and girls and v underprivileged underpriv-ileged children Denzil A. Brown, Stanley M. Clark. Claude S. Ash-worth. Ash-worth. Paul W Larsen. . , Business standards Arthur D. Taylor, chairman, Alex Hedquist, Clyde. P. Crockett. Evan Thomas, Wendell C. LaBrache. Conservation, recreation and wildlife Frank T. Reynolds, chairman, K. E. Bullock, W. Raymond Ray-mond Green, M. W. Merrill, Mark Anderson. ' Inter-club relations , C. ' II. (Continued on Page Two) Berg Postpones Christmas Party The annual Christmas party for school children sponsored by Wyman Wy-man Berg, Provo mortician, originally orig-inally scheduled Saturday, has been postponed a week, Mr. Berg announced today. It will be held Saturday, December 28. The epidemic of colds and influenza in-fluenza was given as the reason for the postponement. "We don't want to jeopardize the health of the children," Mr. Berg said. Officials At Public Event tional administration's appreciation apprecia-tion for a "splendid administration" administra-tion" in cooperation with the federal fed-eral government were received from President Roosevelt and James A. Farley, former postmaster post-master general. Frederick P. Champ, president of the board of trustees of the Utah State Agricultural college, presented the governor with a set of sterling silver flatware on behalf be-half of the state employes. Chez and Guy received watches as tokens of their employers' appreciation. Depends On U. S. Aid To Build Up Arms By JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Great Britain and Greece hammered with air and land forces at the Nazi-Fascist war machine today and Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that with United States support a great armSd power w?ould be buTTI up to strike at the Axis in 1941. Churchill, addressing the house Of commons with quiet optimism, indicated reinforced imperial troop3 might be expected to capture cap-ture the Italian base of Bardia shortly, declared the offensive into in-to Libya is "by no means at an end," and promised improved defenses de-fenses against the Axis U-boat and airplane blockade of Britain. Expect Big Blow He added, however, it would be disaster to believe the danger of invasion of the British Isles is parsed because Adolf Hitler "has great need of doing something soon," and the lull in air attacks on Britain this week may indicate preparations for a big Nazi blow. "I have said we were still only half-armed," the prime minister said: "Germany has already passed its saturation point in armaments, ar-maments, but in 1941 we shall become a well-armed nation, too, and that will open up possibilities which have not been opened up to the puesent." I - Churchill 'said u big British army now is ready at home to repel re-pel any invasion attempt, and that coastal defenses have been built from Scotland all around the island, but he called for increased in-creased war production without delay. Other Developments In this connection there were two other developments: , 1. In the United States, British Brit-ish officials completed a list of $3,000 000,000 in new war orders to be placed soon, including 12,000 combat planes, pending action on (Continued on Page Two) TWO STUDENTS ASPHYXIATED LOGAN, Utah, ,Dec. 19 'U.E Police today blamed carbon monoxide mon-oxide poisoning for the death of two Utah State college students whose bodies were found in their trailer-cabin home off the UAC campus. The bodies of Albert Henderson, Hender-son, 18, Beaver Dam, Utah, and Merlin Fallows, 20, Hyrum, Utah, were found late yesterday by a fellow student. Both bodies were lying on bunks inside the trailer. Police said Henderson apparently apparent-ly had gotten out of bed to cook breakfast on a small cookstove, then returned to bed. Carbon monoxide fumes generated by the Stove apparently caused the death of both boys. Dr. H. R. McGee, examining physician, said. Ship h Dc2chcd After Collision NEW YORK, Dec. 19 0T.E) The 5,148-ton Collier Melrose was beached off Brooklyn today to keep it from sinking in New York harbor after a collision with the 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas. Nine of the Melrose's 37 crew members or the battleship's personnel per-sonnel was reported injured. The Melrose sprang a leak and headed for the Jersey shore, but later continued to New York under un-der her own power, reaching the quarantine station in the harbor at 6:32 a. m. where she was met by a tug to haul her to dry dock in Brooklyn. The navy department in Washington Wash-ington reported that the Arkansas, a 26,100-ton unit of the Atlantic fleet, sometimes used by naval reserves re-serves for training cruises, had suffered "minor damage." Coming Events Rotary club, Friday, 12:15 p. m.. Hotel Roberts. Speaker, I. E. Brockbank, "Christmas." 60 VESSELS, S ALSO LIST War Order Of Three Billions To Be Placed Soon BY LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U.R) British officials today completed a master list of $3,000,000,000 in new war orders or-ders to be placed shortly, including in-cluding 12,000 combat planes at a cost of about $1,200,-000,000. $1,200,-000,000. The list was prepared for U. S. government officials after the British were advised by high administration ad-ministration authorities to place their new orders pending congressional con-gressional action on President Roosevelt's proposal to purchase and lend war materials to Britain Brit-ain under a "gentlemen's agreement" agree-ment" for repayment after the. war. Under the president's plan, the U. S. would take over these new orders, pay for them, and lend the material to Britain. British officials worked until 5 a. m. today to complete the list-Major list-Major items in the new buying program include: 12,000 planes, mostly two-engined two-engined bombers $1,200,000,000. 60 new cargo vessels $100,-000.000. $100,-000.000. Ordnance, Including guns, tanks, etc, $1,700,000,000. Officials explained the 60 vessels ves-sels which the British proposed to construct here represent just a "start" on their shipbuilding program.-In all likelihood, "they added, this number will be doubled. dou-bled. Coincident with the revelation the British have been given a green light for their new orders, it became known that a new plan designed to speed defense production produc-tion was discussed at a White House conference yesterday of President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Scretary of-the Navy, Frank Knox, Assistant Assist-ant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. The plan, whicn administration officials said may receive favorable favor-able consideration, would provide for the creation of a defense council coun-cil composed of Stimson, Knox and Defense Production Coordinator Coordin-ator William S. Knudsen. President Presi-dent Roosevelt would delegate certain cer-tain of his powers to this group so it might act with greater authority auth-ority than' the present national defense commission in carrying out the re-armament program. The present defense commission, commis-sion, however, would continue in its work. , LOVELESS MADE POLICE OFFICER Upon recommendation of Guy F. Christensen, chief of police, the Provo city commission today appointed Fred D. Loveless to fill the vacancy in the police department depart-ment created through the nnnoint. ment of Officer Earl T. Finlayson as cniei oi xnc lire department. Mr. Loveless formerly was ' a member of the denart" merit well educated, and is generally well qualified for the post. AUNT HET By ROBERT QTJILLEN "I've tried to be neighborly neigh-borly with her, but she's lived here hl.v months without with-out offer in' me a recipe or a plant cutting." ID raw |