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Show The Weather UTAH Partly cloudy tonight with scattered showers in northwest north-west portion; Thursday mostly cloudy with showers; little change In temperature. Max. Temp. Tues. 59 Min. Temp. Tues. 58 Build Utah County By Patronizing Home Stores and Euslse&s douse FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 194 CTAH'8 ONLY DAILY BOUTH OF BALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941 COMPLETB TELEGRAPH UNITED NEWS servi1?! PRICE FIVE CENTS DESK ; CHAT For the first time in his-' his-' tory, the United States in 'January actually imported more farm products than, "it ' exported. That comes as a shock, for we like to think of the United States as a great food-producing country with vast surpluses sur-pluses to send abroad. The surpluses are there, all right, but the people abroad who would like to buy American foodstuffs can't do it on account ac-count of the war. And so American import of foods like coffee, tea, pepper, and cocoa beans, not produced in the United States, have at last reached up and passed the war-shaken exports. Yet there are those who still believe that the United States is beyond being affected af-fected by things that happen m- "far-off Europe. oOo This and That Lots Of Women miss ihaiv husbands, but one in Alabama was arrested for it. She did it with a gun. ... An improved, im-proved, hard-surfaced highway high-way to Utah lake, .with the ox-bow turns taken out, will more than double the visitors to the lake, in the opinion of city officials. ... In more ways than one you're safer getting health than wealth. No one tries to borrow it. . . . It's always "easy to tell on which side your bread is buttered. but-tered. Just drop it on the cAr-pet. cAr-pet. . . . The call of the wild calls city folks to the country and country folks to the city. . . Kilts have been worn since 1626., Scotsmen always have been known for their thrifti-ttess. thrifti-ttess. MERRY GO-ROUND 4l Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairi Ey DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Love for Self-Comfort Keynote Key-note To Ouster of Prince Paul As Regent; Deliberate Work Slow-up Causes War Dept. to Call J. Edgar Hoover; Hoo-ver; Labor Minority Promotes Pro-motes Bog-Down, Sabotage in Defense Key Plants; Meanwhile, Shipbuilders Wrangle With Maritime Board For Fat Fees. WASHINGTON- Interesting comparison might be drawn from the behavior of the highly cultured, cultur-ed, over-civilized Pr1nre Paul, recently re-cently forced out of the Regency of Yugoslavia, and the behavior of the rough, uncultured peasants of Serbia. In fact, similar comparisons compari-sons might be made w.th France, possibly even with other comfort-loving comfort-loving people. Inside story of Prince Paul waa that during the last yearne went to England, while Prince Alexander, Alexan-der, (later assassinated as King at Marseilles) struggled with his men over the Albanian Alps on the terrible retreat of 19;s. During that war Paul was asked ask-ed many times to come back and don a uniform, but he remained in Oxford. He loved music, art, poetry, peace. He hated discomfort. discom-fort. And when Hitler demanded that Yugoslavia join the Axis, Paul preferred to take a chance on a peaceful future even if under Hitler. There was nothing corrupt about Prince Paul (though this could not be said of certain cabinet cabi-net ministers). He merely rebelled against the thought of picking up his government and living a hand-to-mouth existence while a temporary tem-porary capital was set up in the mountains of central Serbia or on the plains of Macedonia. According Accord-ing to one diplomatic dispatch, the lack of plumbing in Monastir where the new capital may be established was especially repugnant repug-nant to him. On the other hand. Serb peasants peas-ants know both 'hardships, and '.Continued on Page Eight) T7iis Day... BORN Boy. to Cornell and Minerva Boss Jessee. Springville, April LICENSED TO MARRY Franklin Lee Sorenson. 22, Spanish Fork, and Leona Drarr' 21, Genola. L.D.s. mm GATHER COiffEREtlCE Increasing Use of Alcohol Alco-hol Seen As Evil To Be Fought SALT LAKE CITY, April 2 (U.R) A plea for inspiration, direction and unity and an attack at-tack on sale of lcohol and operations of houses of ill-fame ill-fame near army camps today opened the semi-annual conference con-ference of the 99-year-old L. I. S. Women's Relief Society. The plea and the attack were made in an opening address by Mrs. Amy Brown Lyman, society president, at a meeting of 3,000 officers, representing the society's 91,000 members, in the Salt Lake Assembly hall. Liquor Evil Scored "The object of this conference," Mrs. Lyman said, "will be to provide pro-vide inspiration, direction and unity for our work." She traced the erowth of the society since its organization in 1842 by Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet, and urged all members to increase their efforts to bring the society membership to a total of 100,000 by 1942, when it will observe ob-serve its centennial. The society president made a strong attack on the use of alcohol, alco-hol, warning members that "even social" drinking was Increasing and urged all Mormons to abstain from "even moderate" use of alcoholic alco-holic beverages. Mrs. Lyman told of a recent drive by army authorities on houses occupied by prostitutes near a Florida army camp, and lauded work of the army in closing clos-ing the houses through use of quarantines against venereal diseases, dis-eases, "I think this is a marvelous step." she said, admitting she was discussing a "delicate" matter but one she thought should be brought to attention of the .conference. She urged the church to co-operate with civil and army authorities in combating such evils. Accident Growing Mrs. Lyman also asked the Relief Re-lief Society members to do everything every-thing In their power to reduce automobile accidents, particularly by "refusing to ride with reckless drivers or with drivers who've had even one drink." The women's leader urged Mormon Mor-mon people to beautify their "homes, their surroundings and their communities, as a step toward to-ward making Utah more attractive attrac-tive for visitors during the 1947 centennial that will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the entrance en-trance of the Mormon pioneers into in-to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. She suggested the Relief Societies Socie-ties concentrate their relief activl-( activl-( Continued on Page Three) D.Y.U. Chorus to Sing at Friday' s L.D.S. Conference For the second time the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university mixed chorus will appear in the Salt Lake City tabernacle with the tabernacle organ, furnishing the music for the annual conference of the L. D. S. church. As in the 1940 conference they will, render musical selections at the Friday morning and afternoon sessions. The chorus of 250 members will be under the direction of Dr. Franklin arid Dr. Florence Jepper-son Jepper-son Madsen. Lucy Bluth and Loa Matthews are accompanists. The following numbers will be rendered: "Glory to God in the Highest" by Gionvanni B. Pergo-lesi; Pergo-lesi; "Be Thou Faithful" by D. H. Engel; "Oh,' .Come, Let Us Worship" Wor-ship" by Felix Mendelssohn; "Je-su "Je-su Word of God" bv Wolfgang Mozart; and 'How Beautiful Upon the Mountains" by Sir John fatain- er. Taking solo, duet, and quartet parts in the chorus are Sterling Busch. lone Christensen, Guy Van Alstyne, George Lake, Ted Weav er. Ed Sandzren. AJene Feterson, Mary McGregor, Bernice Dastrup, Edith Stein, and Rose Maasen. Icy Appointed to . Prone Oosd Post SALT LAKE CITY. April 2 l.D W. D. Hammond, chairman of the Utah highway commission, announced today that J. E. Kay has been appointed assistant engineer en-gineer to J. C. Mulville, with headquarters at Provo. Kay has served as resident engineer en-gineer at Salt Lake City. U. S., Mexico Look X v k f (NEA Telephoto) In Washington, Undersecy. of State Sumner Welles looks on as Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Majera signs an agreement permitting the United States to establish Joint defense air bases in Mexico. Farmers Urged to Plant Sugar Beet Six hundred and fifty acres of the sugar beet allotment of 6349 acres for the Spanish Fork sugar factory district are yet unsubscribed, and will be transferred to another district if not taken by local farmers, according to David H. Jones of . Spanish Fork, county AAA com ayis Students luri in Attempt . Yo Eco2no Blaze FARMINGTON, Utah. April 2 (I'D About fifty Davis high school students suffered minor cuts and bruises and four others were more seriously hurt today When they sought to escape a three-car electric train which appeared ap-peared to be on fire. The train, operated by the Bamberger Bam-berger Railroad company, halted south of Farmington after an electric switch discharged sparks and smoke. Approximately 150 students, most of them from Bountiful, became frightened and broke windows in their efforts to get out of the cars. Fire equipment was called from Farmington, but the cars were not ignited and after1 inspection the. train continued' to Kaysville. The students injured sufficiently sufficient-ly to require medical treatment were Shirley Pack, ' 15, Woods Cross, deep cut on leg; Hillian Davis, 16, Bountiful, two leg cuts; Inez Ingle. I', and Eda Bruno, 17, North Salt Lake, leg and arm cuts. City Planners Hear Expert Denzil A. Brown. Fred Mark-ham Mark-ham and George Smeath of the Provo city zoning commission attended at-tended a lecture given at Salt Lake City Tuesday by Charles D. Clark of Los Angeles, chief planning plan-ning consultant for the federal housing administration. Mr. Clark addressed the Salt Lake City planning - and zoning commission, members of the Utah Building and Construction congress con-gress and others interested in civic problems at the University club. The Provo delegation reported they received many useful Ideas for city beautification here. British Naval Planes Sink Italian Destroyer; caSj cy cfy 6vy Kp cCp Germans CI aim Sinking of 11 British Ships LONDON The admiralty saidTbitter protests today against Mex- today naval planes had sunk an Italian destroyer and a British destroyer had intercepted a German Ger-man merchantman while the axis ships were trying to flee from Massawa", the Eritrean port upon whiqh British empire forces are advancing from Asmara. ROME German and Italian mechanized units have occupied Marsa El Brega, 80 miles east of El Agheila on the Libyan coastal mad linking Benghazi and Tripoli, "after overcoming British Brit-ish resistance," the Italian high command said today.'' MEXICO City The German j and Italian . legations prepared j to Joint Defenses mittee chairman. To consider ways and means of keeping this alloted acreage in Utah county, two meetings of farmers and businessmen hav been scheduled one at the Spanish Span-ish Fork library Thursday at fc, p. m. forlhe south farf of the coun ty, and one at the American Fork city hall Friday at 8 p. m. for the north half, Mr. Jones said. "We want the farmers of Utah county to use this acreage, for if they don't, we will lose it," said Mr. Jones. "Of course, if they don't want it, then it is better that it be put to use somewhere else." .... Farmers who have already signed for acreage allotments may increase their quotas if they wish, and any farmer who has not eub-scribed eub-scribed for an allotment may do so, Mr. Jone3 stated. Requests for allotments should be submitted to county AAA officials of-ficials at the agricultural office in the city and county building at Provo. County Agent S. R. Boswell pointed out that the production of sugar bec"ts is important in the agricultural .economy of Utah county. Sugar beets are a cash contract crop and farmers know before planting that their crops will be sold at a definite figure, related to the price of sugar. He pointed to the report of the sugar beet committee of the county coun-ty planning board, which advocated advo-cated planting the full allotment for the Spanish Fork factory. All farmers are urged to attend one of the two meetings slated this week, and businessmen are cordially cor-dially invited. Beginners' Class In Shorthand Set Students may still register for adult education classes Thursday evening at the Provo high school building as class work begins in all subjects. The beginners class in shprt-hand shprt-hand will commence at 6:15 p. m. in room 31-M. ico's seizure of 12 axis cargo ves sels. LONDON A new type of British Brit-ish bomb, used for the first time in an airplane raid on Emden, Germany, yesterday, has five times the blasting effect of any comb previously dropped by the Royal Air Force, the ministry for aircraft production said today. ROME The newspaper Ponolo Dl Roma Raid today that last week's Ionian sea naval battle had represented an Italian victory because It "disrupted maritime traffic between Egyptian Greek ports. U 1-1 u ll J -UJ LL lb l iyji-i jlLilILj i 1 fill n ill ! ! . ' ) HE J EC I PROTEST Berlin Hints N Further Diplomatic Action In The Offing WASHINGTON, April 2 (U.R) The United States has decided to reject formally the German and Italian protests against the seizure of 30 of their ships in American harbors, har-bors, Secretary of State Cor-dell Cor-dell Hull said today. The American repl, which will reject the Axis demands for release re-lease of the ships and their 875 crew members, is now being formulated. for-mulated. It may be delivered to the Italian and German embassies here soon. There had been no thought of yielding to any of the Axis demands. de-mands. The attorney general instructed in-structed U. S. attorneys to proceed pro-ceed with prosecution of masters and crew members responsible for sabotage that was carried out on most of the ships. This may clear the way legally for the United States to requisition the ships. Slav Ignore Protest The only question in the state department's mind had been i whether to make any formal, an swer at all to the Axis notes. The reply, together with the notes of protest, may be made public, Hull said, but the two embassies em-bassies will be consulted before this is done. Hull reiterated previous assertions asser-tions that there was no question of the legality of the seizures. BERLIN, April 2 U.P) Authorized Author-ized Nazi informants, admitting Germany had protested the seizure seiz-ure of German ships by the United States, said today the possibility of further diplomatic action "could not be ruled out." "The fact one bad boy Is . in league with other bad boysk does not detract from the badness of what he does," a spokesman said. BENEFIT PLAY SLATED FRIDAY "It Shall Keep Thee," a play suited not only to the tastes of adults, but to the young people. will be presented Friday evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Provo high school auditorium, as a "Bundles for Britain" benefit project. Those who have not been contacted con-tacted for tickets may get in touch with Mrs. Victor J. Bird, chairman, Mrs. S. R. Boswell, Mrs. C. H Harmon or Mrs. Ralph Craven. The play is being sponsored by the municipal section of the Women's Wo-men's Council, and all proceeds will go into the "Bundles for Britain" fund. Nathan and Ruth Hale of Salt Lake City, are coauthors co-authors of the play which is presented pre-sented by a group of Salt Lake talents. Reports from persons who have already seen the performance in- ( Continued on Page Three) 0- BERLIN Destruction of 11 British ships totaling 77,300 tons was claimed by the German high command today. A communique said a submarine operating in the North Atlantic alone had reported report-ed sinking five merchants ships totaling 35,3000 tons. LONDON A British plane torpedoed tor-pedoed a German merchant ship off the Danish coast yesterday, the air ministry said today, and other planes machine gunned small naval vessels and made low level attacks on gun empTace- S OF A S POWERS and.ir.ents along the coasts of occu-; occu-; pied countries. 1 1. ; 1 1 . r 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 lit 11 1 1 1 f ! i c 1 a ' 1 1 i i i 3 Speaks Tonight Will Irwia floted Qeporte Lcstures Tonight In 7aIornco!o Probably no writer is better known to the public than Will Irwin, whose facile pen has contributed con-tributed fiction, drama, news, arl even poetry for readers in thia country and elsewhere. He will sp"aak before the Brigham Young university lecture association tonight to-night at 8 in the Provo tabernacle. Few pairs of eyes have seen as much as Irwin's. He has won distinction as a reporter, mostly for American magazine and newspapers. news-papers. In the theatre of war from 1914 to 1918, he observed the German invasion of Belgium and the march into France as correspondent corre-spondent for the Saturday Evening Eve-ning Post, Collier's and the New York Tribune, and was one of the founders of the Belgium Relief Re-lief Commission. His accounts of the German march through Belgium, written writ-ten for Collier's and his "atmosphere" "atmos-phere" stories of the Battle of Verdun, the Italian campaigns among the glaciers, written for tha Saturday Evening Post, and his "expose" of the scandals in the Veterans Bureau for syndicate syndi-cate of , newspapers, have kept his name prominently before the public. "Th City That Was," written by Mr. Irwin while his home town of San Francisco was in flames, is considered a journalistic journal-istic classic. As a speaker, Mr. Irwin , has style all his own. He is fluent, easy, epigrammatic, and untouched un-touched by oratory. It resembles, more than anything lse. the off-hand off-hand talk of a wise and witty dinner-guest, who by eager permission per-mission is monopolizing the conversation, con-versation, at your table. July 4th Program To Be Previewed President K. E. Weight of the Provo July Fourth Celebration corporation will present a definite program for the 1941 celebration for the approval of the directors at a-meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the chamber of commerce office, according to Clayton Jenkins, Jenk-ins, secretary-treasurer. Present plans call for horse races, a huge parade, boat races, and a spectacular stadium show as major features of the celebration, celebra-tion, according to Mr. Jenkins. Chairmen of the major divisions of the celebration will be appointed appoint-ed soon. World Events to Be Forum Topic Latest developments in world events, including the seizure of Nazi vessels in Western Hemisphere Hemis-phere ports and the United States" position with warring nations, na-tions, will be aired at the Provo community forum Thursday at 8 p. m. in the Provo high school library, according to John Bown, forum secretary. O. Meredith Wilson assistant professor of history at Brigham Young university, will deliver the address, after which the meeting will be thrown open to forum discussion. dis-cussion. The public is invited. ' A Jugoslav s Weld Solid Front German Attempts To Divide Nation Into Two Racial Groups By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Correspondent Jugoslavia was reported today to-day to have welded an united home front against possible German aggression, and there were indications of diplomatic maneuvers involving Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia and Russia. The united Jugoslav home front if officially confirmed should block apparent German attempts at-tempts to drive a wedge between the two largest racial groups of the country, the Serbs and the Croats. ' The possibility of a split between be-tween the two factions has been enlarged upon by Nazi propaganda propa-ganda with the evident Intention of attempting to weaken Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia internally to a point at which her prospects of withstanding withstand-ing German attack would be reduced re-duced greatly. Today, however, It waa reported an agreement was reached whereby where-by Dr. Vladimir Matchek, the strong Croat leader, will give his support to the new Jugoslav regime and retain his post as vice-premier. vice-premier. Jugoslavia continued calm under un-der an increasing Nazi propaganda propa-ganda barrage which alleged that Jugoslav attacks upon the persecution perse-cution of racial Germans have been intensified. The German propaganda followed fol-lowed closely the line employed against Poland and Czechoslovakia. Czechoslo-vakia. The possibility of diplomatic negotiations between Jugoslavia and Russia was reported from Istanbul, Is-tanbul, where it was said a special Jugoslav plane, believed to be car-( car-( Continued on Page Three) FOURlKLEDIH IIARLAND STRIKE HARLAN, Ky., April 2 'CD-Four 'CD-Four men were reported shot and killed and at least five others wounded today in the coal mining region of "bloody Harlan" county. Fighting started when several hundred members of the United Mine Workers (CIO) went to the mine, one of those closed during work stoppage ordered by the UMWA and sought to enroll nonunion non-union employes who were lounging loung-ing about the mine commissary. Shooting started during a speech delivered by a UMW organizer, or-ganizer, but only about 50 men engaged in the fighting it was said. Approximately 20 sheriff's deputies and state police went to the scene to restore order. The Harlan City hospital said two men. identified as Oscar Goodin, Lynch, and Virgil Hampton, Hamp-ton, 55, a union organizer, died shortly after being admitted to the nospital and that two Negroes were fatally wounded. BOISE TO STAGE MAYORALTY RUN-OFF BOISE, Idaho, April 2 V.T.) Boise municipal election returns today made necessary a run-off election between J. Emer Harris and 11. Wcsterman Whillock for the city's mayorship. Neither candidate received the simple majority of the total vote cast for the five candidates. Whillock Whil-lock received 2858 votes, about 160 less than needed to win, and Harris Har-ris received 1639 votes. Coming Events JJon? club, 'Thursday, 7 p. m. Haase cafe. Spaker, Vern B. Thorpe, state recreation officials. Directors meeting at 6:15. Kiwanl., Thursday, 12:13 p. m. Hotel Roberts. Speaker D. K. Rawlings, safety agent, Los Angeles An-geles division, Union Pacific Railroad. Rail-road. J. W. Dangerfieil, chairman. chair-man. Rctary, Friday. 7 p. m., Hotel Roberts. Boys and Girls night. Frank J. Earl, chairman. Special program. Favors for the guests. niome RK STOPS TER C.1.0. CALLS STRIKE Carey Charges Attempt To Break Down Defense Plan DEARBORN, Mich., April 2 (U.R) Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner today ordered state police to "maintain law and .order" at the strike-bound River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company. The state police were requested re-quested by Mayor John Carey of Dearborn after pickets of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) employed highway blockades and fist fights to prevent day shifts from entering the plant this morning. morn-ing. Rights Disregarded "Dearborn is the scene of flagrant flag-rant disregard for all rights of citizens, both union and nonunion," non-union," Carey protested- to the governor. "The conditions cannot be allowed to exist longer. Streets are being blocked off, citizens are being beaten and molested in their attempt to return to work." Carey said the strike was "an attempt to break down the whole plan of national defense, no doubt inspired by some form of subversive subver-sive activity," - - The governor replied: "I have directed Commissioner Oscar A. Olander to send the full available manpower of state police" po-lice" to Dearborn at once for the purpose ,of maintaining law and order." There were a few minor scuffles at scattered points around the two square miles which the plant occupies, but a survey at the time the first two day shifts were to have reported for work Indicated the picket line virtually was impenetrable. im-penetrable. The pickets, mobilized at a mass meeting after an eight-hour sit-down sit-down paralyzed production in the gigantic plant last night, were established es-tablished at all the 14 plant gates and at all roads leading to the entrances. en-trances. Union headquarters announced the strike was "100 per cent effective." ef-fective." The union said only maintenance crews, to man steel and glass furnaces requiring constant con-stant attention, were being permitted per-mitted to enter. The WAW claimed a majority of the 85,000 plant employes were members and announced it wan ready for a show-down with Henry Ford, the only major automobile auto-mobile manufacturer using nonunion non-union labor. The UAW demanded a collective bargaining election at the plant and the reinstatement of (Continued on Page Three) Dullock Galls League testing Utah Industrial baseball league officials will meet at Salt Lake City Saturday, April 19 at 8 p. m. to draw schedules, approve umpires um-pires and adopt a ball for the 1941 season, announced Bob Bullock Bul-lock of Provo, league president, today. AUNT BET Dy ROBEBT QUUXSTf "We wouldn't have a utove If Fa hadn't quit chew-in. 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