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Show -- ' ' ! ! I ! 7 Vvi kJ U SECTION TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941 PAGE ONE erry-Go-flounci (Continued From Pag On) ique). It is true, of course, that the British did withdraw their planes at the end, but only after Churchill had definite information that French leaders Intended to surrender. Net result: The FrencTi are Litter against both the United States and Britain; many would welcome a German victory. i U.S.A. AXOTI I EH FRANCE?' Most arresting- Jackson day speech was delivered in Atlanta, Ga., the President's "second state," where ex-Governor O. Max Gardner Gard-ner was especially - picked as speaker. Well worth repetition, one portion of his speech read: "What a pity that we do not know the full tragedy of France. She lies utterly prostrate, dying, stabbed and bleeding to death from the inside. "In this connection, it seems we might well remember the story of the fabled eagle that lay dying on the plains. In the hour of agony, ag-ony, its suffering was magnified when it discovered that the shaft that had pierced its vitals had been guided by a feather fallen from its own wing. "Was the shaft that pierced the vitals of France guided by the forces of Hitler, or was it guided by the misguided of France?" Two chief factors caused the fall of France: (1) sabotage by labor; (2) the refusal of big business busi-ness to put national defense ahead of profits. Today, some of the same sort of labor strikes and slowdowns which killed France are rampant in the U. S. A. led by a minority of labor, but with devastating effect upon production. Today, many U. S. big business leaders, as Le Creusot and the Comite des Forges did in France, are putting die-hard labor policies poli-cies and dividends ahead of pa-tiotism. pa-tiotism. DIVIDENDS VS. WAGES : . More altruistic than most big business leaders is Dollar-a-Year Man Edward Stettinius, chairman of the giant U. S. Steel Corporation, Corpora-tion, which maintains cordial relations re-lations with SWOC, a CIO union. Last year U. S. Steel paid stockholders stock-holders $100,000,000. This year it should pay about $156,000,000. But now the steel workers union fa demanding a wage boost. This pew boost would cost the company com-pany - just -about $56,000,000 or just about the extra amount the tompany proposed to pay m aivi-liends. aivi-liends. Stettinius wants to pay the additional dividends. Labor wants to get additional pay. Everybody wants something just as did the unhappy people of France. jj . WRONG R. R. GEOGRAPHY One of the President's prides is his knowledge of geography, but he is due for criticism on the geographic composition of the three-man board he named to study freight rates. The board was created by the transportation act of 1940 as a move to settle the old controversy over regional freight differentials. This has been a stormy issue in congress for years, the south and west claiming discrimination against them in favor of the so-called so-called "official territory" namely that part of the country lyiitg north of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi. The south and west expected to have at least one member each on the board, which is empowered to recommend important rail rate changes. But to their outraged out-raged surprise the three men named by Roosevelt are all from the "official territory." They are Wayne Coy of Indiana, right hand man of Federal Security Securi-ty Administrator Paul McNutt; Charles West of Ohio, former Under Un-der Secretary of Interior, and Nel son Smith of New Hampshire. 7he President made the appointments without consulting any of bis senate sen-ate leaders, most of them southerners. south-erners. This was particularly thoughtless thought-less because the board has to be confirmed by the senate. Also, chairman" of the interstate commerce com-merce committee, which has jurisdiction jur-isdiction over the matter, is Senator Sen-ator Burt Wheeler of Montana, a bitter White House foe; and the leading New Deal member is Lister Hill, an Alabaman who feels strongly about the rate issue. Hill has no personal complaint against" We three appointees, but he is up in arms over Roosevelt's failure to name a southerner. If the President has any idea of getting get-ting early confirmation of the board he has another think coming. com-ing. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) NEWSPAPER MAX HURT LEW7STON. Ida., April 3 H'.PJ Wenuell McEwan, assistant advertising ad-vertising manager of the Lewiston Tribune, suffered head lacerations yesterday when his automobile struck a telephone pole as he was driving back to Lewiston from Walla Walla. WOMAN OOMMITE SUICIDE HELENA. Mont., April 3 (C.P Mrs. Myrtle Cole, 34, well-known last night or early today by tying ,a chloroform-soaked pad over Tier face, and hanging herself from a tree on the slopes of Mount Helena, near here. Fourth Ward Personnel of the chorus, front row, left to right, Edward Sandgre Merrill, Robert Wolsey, Gordon Taylor, Bishop Victor J. Bird, Char Garth Pehrson, Fay Broadtent. Van Weaver, Carl Hunter; secon Wayne Beck, Theodore Taylor, Thornton Y. Booth, Walter Louis, L Jay Shelley, Ted Weaver; third row: Guy Van Alstyne, Glen Chris Howard Draper, Russel Harris, ,Don Fitzgerald, Robert Haws, Gr uiarK; accompanist. Priesthood Chorus To Sing Saturday Provo's Fourth ward priesthood chorus, almost half a hundred strong, travels to Salt Lake Saturday Sat-urday to sing at the evening L. D. S. priesthood meeting in the Salt Lake tabernacle. Invitation to sing at this meet ing climaxes to date the activities activi-ties of the chorus, which has behind be-hind it two years of appearances at ward and stake meetings throughout the county. This year so far the group has sung at both Provo and Utah stake conferences, confer-ences, at the First and Fifth wards in Provo, and the Third ward in Payson. They are scheduled sched-uled to give a program in American Amer-ican Fork the Sunday following conference. Officers include Jay Shelly, president; Ted Johnson, vice president; presi-dent; Grant Christensen, secretary; secre-tary; Robert Wolsey, publicity manager; and Beatson Wallace, librarian. Edward Sandgren is director and Melba Clark, accompanist. accom-panist. The group was organized in October, 1939, by Edward Sandgren, Sand-gren, who was acting under the instructions of the bishopric. Starting with 15 members, it now boasts an enrollment of 45 who range in priesthood from teacher to high priest. Second Son Enlists In Nation's Service Grant Bullock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bullock of 655 "West Fourth North, is the second son in the family to enlist for military mili-tary service. Mr. Bullock enlisted in the U. S. maritime commission and left last week for New Jersey. His brother. Gale Bullock, enlisted two years ago and is now stationed in New York. His line of duty is with the anti-aircraft unit. J. n ft, lf V inf f i! If f DN-TTWIE EASTER PAIR A DDE r 2'98 r 1 , V ?.. "X Priesthood Chorus . Uorkers Register At Siats Offisa SALT LAKE CITY, April 2 (UJ? Registration of skilled workers wor-kers who had dropped from their regular employment into unskilled un-skilled jobs or were unempioyed continued through Utah today under un-der the direction of the state department de-partment of placement and unemployment unem-ployment insurance. The Utah registration was part of a national campaign to recruit workmen for defense industries. Director E. J Burnett said that 150 men registered Tuesday opening day of the campaign at offices here, in Ogden and in Provo. W. L. Mildenhall, director of the Provo office, said some 30O men registered Tuesday and several sev-eral more have signed up today. The local office also conducted registration at Springville Tuesday Tues-day and at Spanish Fork today. The schedule calls for registration registra-tion at Payson Thursday. Mr. Mildenhall said the local office is especially interested in registering men skilled in the metal trades. Birthdays Friday, April 4 MRS. DOROTHY.-MELDRUM Saturday, April 5 NORMAN PARKER MRS. JOS. LARSON CLIFTON THATCHER EARL THOMAS MRS. MARTELL KEETCH FAY PEHRSON Sun da v, April 8 EDGAR M. JENSEN MRS. MARTHA J. JONES MRS. HAROLD GARDNER HAROLD O. GARRETT MRS. PAUL BAKER PAUL PATTEN MR. GORDON WEIGHT 1 : S V.T.,. ,..T., . ft - s Enhance the charm of! your Eastergaraents j with footwear in mated: colors, chosen from cur; wide selection of beauti-' ful styles. 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LJ tvii Officers Elcsid By Presbyterians SPRINGVILLE With representatives represen-tatives in attendance from Presbyterian Pres-byterian churches throughout Salt Lake, Utah and Juab counties, the thirty-second annual meeting of the Salt Lake Presbyterial was held in Springville Tuesday. Under direction of Mrs. H. S. Hillard of Salt Lake City, society president, the meetings featured election of officers for 1941-42, and talks by visiting officials. Miss Virginia MacKenzie was the principal speaker. She told in interesting! manner of her experiences ex-periences during 21 years as a missionary in Japan. Officials of the society, nominated nomin-ated by Mi's. Isaac Binns of American Am-erican Fork and later installed during exercises conducted by Miss MacKenzie include the following, fol-lowing, all of w'hom are from TO WEAR. FOR For Easter Showing ' ' $ tor w 7 one of these to complete Expen- 'For Thrifty Shoppers o i m r Sizes 8 to 14 ; m , j.. Give Yourself' a Thrill! 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Mc-Fadden, Mc-Fadden, Spanish Fork, other members. THE VA.feS ii c f , r r . ' i? s- i wr f ber) treated hose more i f A . sheer, more beauty, more -vx tl resistant 200 liJ War Veteran Dies In Strawstaek Fire TWIN FALLS, Ida., April 3 aP Setting fire to a straw stack, then climbing into a hole in the stack and apparently shooting himself, Edwin E. Thieme, 47. Liacneior larmer anu w onu war veteran, died early today in a flaming bier on a ranch southeast of Kimberly. He came here two weeks ago from Pasadena, Calif., and was suffering from - World war injuries. in-juries. HUSBAND SLAYER ' FACING TRIAL S A NDPOINT, Ida.. April 3 U.P ucge E. S. Elder today had set April 21 for trial of Mrs. Jean Mann on a charge of manslaughter. manslaugh-ter. She was accused of shooting her husband, Dan Mann, in a Hope, Ida., beer parlor last month. j K . .At- . : c |