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Show " The Weather " UTAH: Fair tonight and Wednesday;, Wednes-day;, little change in temperature. Maximum te-nip., Monday ... 56 Minimum temp., Monday ... 27 i?zz7cf tfai County Oy Patronizing IT o roe Stores an J Bo&lnaaa Houses FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 197 UTA H'S ONLY DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941 COMPLETE UNITED PREP1 T T" T Tf "CTT TTT1 rTX'TO TELEGRAPH KBWS SERVlCfi XrilUXj X 1 V Cj KjCji 1 O C3 C2 n T. TT-I CT TUS EBHC3 U v mi Id ID n n n rr rn fc-a W k-3k s k n n r k - - n1 i AA 10 u LJ uJ U Lj Well, let's face it. There may be a shortage of peroxide perox-ide blonds and blood-red finger-nails. If it really comes to that, the average American male will probably be able to face this deprivation in the name of defense with some fortitude. forti-tude. It seems that peroxide is running short, and that the goo which women smear on their finger-nails to make them red 13 made of nitrocellulose. nitro-cellulose. That's needed in high explosives. Quite a lot of the materials materi-als women smear on their faces in th hope of becoming "man-killers" are now being used by men themselves to kill each other directly, according ac-cording to Max Factor, professional pro-fessional painter of the lilies of Hollywood. Let's face it bravely, men! And cut out that snickering, you there in the back row! 0O0 Chit Chat It seems like a lot of folks nre singing the national anthem an-them "Oh, Say Can Yon C. I. O. by the Dawn's Earlv Strike." . . . One draft board down south got peeved and put all the registered men subject to selective service in the deferred class until such time as workers engaged en-gaged in defense industries cease strike activities ... to some of these strikers, "all-out" "all-out" aid to the defense of America means "all-up" aid. Or maybe they think "all-out" "all-out" means all the help out i)f the plant. - 0O0 They're telling of a newspaperman news-paperman who came home unexpectedly un-expectedly one evening and found his wife entertaining a Marine and an Army man. He immediately began to search the room. "What are you looking for?" asked the frightened wife. "You're holding out on me," he cried accusingly, "where's the Navy?" MERRY GO-ROUND 4. Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN U. S. Experts Expect Hitler To Avoid Break With U. S. Till Summer; Fears Morale Effect; Loss of Property, Supplies if We Enter War; Anti - Trust Probe Finds Zinc Cartel Creating Artificial Arti-ficial Shortage; Production Cut in U. S., Britain, While German Output Skyrocketed. Skyrock-eted. WASHINGTON Those who are steering U. S. foreign policy on its present difficult course privately pri-vately offer four important reasons rea-sons for not anticipating a break in diplomatic relations with Germany Ger-many for some time. ONE La the memory of the German people regarding American Ameri-can entrance into the last war. For years Germans have contended contend-ed that they won the last war until the United States entered; so the psychological effect of American entrance now i3 the last thing Hitler wants. TWO Is the effect upon American Amer-ican morale. At present, U. S. draftees can't get enthusiastic about their service, while industry indus-try and labor could be much more patriotic about production. But once Hitler precipitated a declaration declara-tion of war. sentiment here would be far different and he knows it. THREE is the large amount of German property in the United States which would be serzed in case of war. FOUR is the fact that Germany is now able to receive a certain amount of goods from the U.S.A., sent via Russia and Japan, which she could not get in case of war. Therefore, U. S. diplomatic experts ex-perts are convinced that Hitler will do nothing rash toward the United States until after June or July, by which time he ehould (Continued on Page Two) haw patrol bomber lost I'JITHIOLiEf Believe Bomber Down Somewhere In Atlantic At-lantic Ocean BULLETIN NORFOLK, Va., April U'.Pl The naval air station reported re-ported today that the wreckage wreck-age of the missing PBY-1 llornber had txn located off the eaitfrn hhore of Virginia and that there were no survivor sur-vivor of the crash. ABOARD NAVY BLIMP, K-2, April 8 U.R) This and three other navy blimps took off from the Lakehurst, N. J., navahair station today to join navy, coast guard and merchant ships searching 500 miles of the Atlantic coast for a PBY-1 navy patrol bomber, missing with 10 men. A 'fifth blimp had been searching search-ing all night. Naval planes were taking off from bases In New York City and other coastal naval stations to join in the search. The giant plane took, off from Chambers Field, Norfolk, at 8:35 a. m., yesterday. No word has been heard of it since. It should have reached its destination, Quonset Point, It. I., a naval operating oper-ating base neap Newport, at noon. liHvcd.DoUft ia Ckui- It was believed to be down somewhere in the Atlantic. Its course would have taken it over the eastern shore of Maryland, but after that it's journey was all over water. ' The lost plane, was equipped with rubber boats, flares, emergency emer-gency food and other equipment. It .is designated Patrol Bomber 4-J-N. It had both receiving and sending radio equipment, with call letters 167-L. The search began last night when the coast guard and navy sent out general orders for all ships at sea to keep on the look-ou look-ou . for the missing craft, which was piloted by Ensign G. N. Blackburn, a reserve officer from LennI Mills, Pa. At 4 p. m. yesterday, the Norfolk Nor-folk naval air station received a mysterious message reporting a plane down at sea. But the message mes-sage was unidentified. The navy announced in Washington Wash-ington that the following men. in addition to Blackburn, were aboard the plane: Co-pilot-Ensign G. W. Mar3on, (Continued on Page Three) Students To-Hame Officers Friday Provo high school students will elect student body officers, Friday when the current campaign comes to a close. In the race for student body president are Allan Ridge and Clinton .Wiest who survived the primary eliminations. Joyce McDaniels and Lavina Hoover are the nominees for vice president; with Barbara Bailey and Bonnie Bell in the race for secretary. Dallas Young, student body president and Sherman Coleman, business manager are in charge of the elections. Chamber of Directors The Provo chamber of commerce will operate on a budget of $8433 as approved Monday night at a meeting of the directors. -The budget is substantially the same as last year, except for increases in some of the promotion activities, activi-ties, notably the tourist bureau, retail merchants, Christmas celebration, cele-bration, agricultural promotion. and membership meeting. The directors accepted the low i bid of Claude Holmes of Provo for the resurfacing and re-painting of 20 highway signs located on the highways centering in Provo, south of here as far as Fillmore, as recommended by the tourist bureau committee, P. E. Ashton, chairman. Plans are also under way to refinish the larger, illuminated signs at the north and south city limits. 1 i Great Britain and her Balkan allies, striking back at Hitler's blitzkrieg army of the southeast, rained bombs upon key objectives in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. Details of fighting remained obscured aa country after country tightened censorship and communLca-. Hons remained chaotic. Here's the first picture of the invasion, showing,, according to the German caption, a Jugoslav outpost in flames as result of the German bombardment. Note German soldiers in background. Radioed from Berlin to New York. (NEA Radio-Telephoto) , . CLEAN-UP DRIVE STARTS MONDAY Provo cny's annual clean-up campaign will be staged next Monday through Thursday, it was decided at the meeting of the city commission Monday night. .The dates were fixed upon the recommendation Of C. Elmer Mad-sen, Mad-sen, supervisor of the waste removal re-moval system which will go into effect in a few weeks. Six trucks and some 18 men will be put to work hauling away tin cans, ashes, junk, and what-have-you that have accumulated Lduring the winter. No charge will be made to the individual resident, but certain requirements re-quirements will be expected, Mr. Madsen said. The resident must neatly place his garbage and refuse in containers at the curb. The truck men will not load material ma-terial that is not in containers. No containers-load should weigh over 100 pounds. If the residents want their containers saved, they should notify the workers when they call for the garbage. To avoid littering the streets, the garbage should not be placed at the curb until late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Mr. Madsen warns salvagers that they will not be permitted to salvage junk from the containers placed at the curb. Anyone caught doing this and scattering the garbage gar-bage will be arrested, he said. TOWXSEXD CLUB The Townsend club will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. in the city courtroom. A splendid - program pro-gram has been arranged. Commerce Okeh Budget Invitations to attend the din-ner-meeting in Washington D. C. to be sponsored by the Mountain States Association of Chambers of Commerce on April 30, have been accepted by Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Congressman J. W. Robinson and Walter K. Gran ger, according to communications received by Clayton Jenkins, sec- retary Announcement was made that the annual farmers and business men's good-will banquet meeting will be held April 16 at the Hotel Roberts, by Seth Shaw, chairman of the agricultural committee. A representative attendance of busi ness men will be sought and more than 50 leading farmers of the region will be special guest3. Here's First Picture Of Germany's Balkan Invasion (V , 1 Ford Negotiating - With CIO Chieftain BY JJNITED PRESS Direct negotiations between Ford. Motor company 'officials 'of-ficials and CIO Chief Philip Murray were reported begun in Detroit today. The conference reportedly delayed a plan of Secretary ; -of Labor Frances Perkins to cer Uorkers Testify In Lafor Hearing Circumstances connected with the six-week lay-off of Ralph H. Peters In March of 1940 were brought out in testimony submit ted this morning in the hearing held here on allegcd violations of the national labor relations act by the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company. The pipe company, in a complaint com-plaint filed by the NLRB, is charged with giving Peters a layoff lay-off March 8, 1940, because of Peters' union activities. The company com-pany is also charged with refusing to bargain collectively with the Steel Workers' Organization committee, com-mittee, local 1654 which officially represents the employes of the firm. Peters, called as a witness by P. S. Kuelthau of Denver, representing repre-senting the NLRB, testified that he was laid off eight days after a consent election February 29, 1940 at which the SWOC won the right to represent the employes. Peters was instrumental in arranging ar-ranging the election and he represented repre-sented the SWOC in the capacity as observer at the election, he said. Bringing out asserted refusal on the part of the company to sign a two-party agreement with the union, Mr. Peters said that on March 2, 1940, a meeting was called at which O. H. King, pipe company general manager, read the "company's policy. Mr. King was quoted by Peters as saying (Continued on Page Three) Four Injured In Bountiful Crash BOUNTIFUL. Utah, April 8 ,t-R Four persons were injured, one seriously, last night when two cars collided near here as they sougfht to avoid burlap sacks that had spilled on the highway. Eugene L. Cone. Magna, was seriously injured. The occupants of the other car Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carman, Boise, Ida., and Mrs. Kate Carman, Salt Lake suffered cuts and bruises. King Kurmada, Salt Lake, from whose trailer the tsgs blew onto the road, was given a traffic ticket. V. tify the week-old Ford strike to the national defense mediation board. Murray, cancelling a conference with President Roosevelt at the White House, flew to Detroit, where it was said he conferred with Ford officials for two hours on the United Automobile Workers Work-ers strike which stopped work ot 85,000 men at Dearborn, Mich., and 40,000 in other Ford plants, blocking production on $154,000,-000 $154,000,-000 defense orders. Meanwhile, CIO die casters and steel workers stopped work at Cleveland, O., plants of the U. S. Aluminum company and the Fer-ro Fer-ro Machine Foundry company, both holding defense contracts. More than 2,500 workers were reported re-ported idle. Eight thousand U A W-C I O members returned to work at the Milwaukee, Wi3., plant of the Allis-Chalmers company, under terms of a settlement arranged by the mediation board in its first major test. The plant was closed by a strike Jan. 22, stopping production pro-duction of $40,000,000 defense orders. Brighter Prospects-Prospects Prospects-Prospects were brighter for settlement of two other major defense labor disputes, those in the soft coal and steel industries. Formal action qn, a proposed agreement between soft coal operators oper-ators in northern states and the United Mine Workers (CIO) was expected today despite objections of southern operators who protested pro-tested abandonment of a 40-cent wage differential in their mines. The strike called against U. S. Steel Corp, scheduled for midnight mid-night today, was averted temporarily tempor-arily when the firm agreed to Steel Workers' organizing committee com-mittee (CIO) demands that any agreement reached in future negotiations be made retroactive to April 1, original expiration date (Continued on Page Three) Inis Day.. BORN Boy, to John J. and Mildred Morgan Barker, today. Girl, to Edwin Earl and Ruth Clark Caldwell, today. Girl, to Melvin and Edna Edwards Ed-wards Oliver, today. UCENSEU TO MARRY ' Merrill Grant Christensen 24, Provo, and Aenone Woolf, 24, Provo. 1 j 21 ACOUIR CITIZENSHIP United States citizenship rights were granted 21 Utah countians who successfully passed the .quiz at a naturalization hearing before Abe W. Turner, Fourth district court judge, Monday. D. P. Lillis of Salt Lake City acted as examiner. The courtroom was more than half filled with the petitioners and their friends and relatives. Winning citizenship papeTs were Lawrence Edward Stone, Francisco Catois Guerico, Charles Edwards, Andrew Marinus Chris- tensen, Mary Biggs, Violate Iret- ia. uay narwooa Asa i-upus, George Wiseman. Grant Fredrick o Z ri i : 'i Ruth Tagg Caley, Marcellus An derson Lowry, Anna Margrete Rasmire Madsen Christensen, and Dr. Jurt Eugene Rose, all of Provo. Sophia Carson and Olive Ruth Fletcner Taylor Dickerson of Lehi; Hilda May Wrebb Nelson of Elberta; Nellie H. Pitcher Brown, Michael Sotef and Ruth Showell Lawrence of Sprimjville, and James Henry Tomlinson of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. Cases of two additional petitioners peti-tioners seeking naturalization were continued for further study, while two people who had filed petitions failed to appear at the hearing, according to court attaches. at-taches. Welfare Workers Slated To Speak Reya Thomas, case work supervisor, super-visor, and Velma MendenhaU, welfare worker in the Utah county welfare department, will address the Provo community forum meeting meet-ing Thursday at 8 p. m. in the Provo high library on "The Need of Foster Homes in Utah County." -5- G. of G. lo Sponsor At 7aforncc!c; 3. Sponsored by the Provo chamber cham-ber of Commerce and assisted by the Provo high school a capella chorus, the Brigham Young university uni-versity band will be presented in its annual concert Monday, May 12 at 8:15 p. m. in the L. D. S. tabernacle in Provo. "There are two main reasons why the chamber of commerce annually an-nually sponsors the "Y" band in in a Provo recital," Clayton Jankins, C. of C. secretary stated n announcing the date of the contest. "The first is to give the people of this city the opportunity of heaiinj, free of charge, a pro eiriiBaEis sever Greece Co Hitler's Blitzkrieg Threatens to Smash Vardar Var-dar Valley Route Between Greece and Jugoslavia; Losses Sustained. BY IIARRI i SALISBURY United Pres .. taff Correspondent Adolf Hitler's southeastern blitzkrieg cut through the narrow finger of Macedonia today, severing communications communica-tions between Greece and Turkey, and threatened to smash the Vardar Valley route between Greece and Jugoslavia. There still was no authentic account of how the fighting fight-ing is progressing along Jugoslavia's northern and central-eastern central-eastern frontiers. But the reports from the south showed that a major nazi threat was building up fast! in the mountains at the corner where meet. Greece and Jugoslavia Surprise Offensiv A surprise offensive by a German Ger-man mechanized force across mountains which the Jugoslavs apparently tnougnt too auiicuit for a major attack had carried a nazi spearhead to within 15 miles of the vital Vardar river. The Germans had crossed 18 miles of wild terrain, apparently following a railroad spur from the Struma river line, to " reach Strumica, north of the Greek border bor-der and within easy striking distance dis-tance of the Vardar artery. -.Here the Royal Air Force went into action with a blasting1 attack designed to stem the nazi advance ad-vance but there was no indication indica-tion that the german- forward movement had ceased. A Greek report admitted that the left flank of the army facing Bulgaria had been uncovered by a Serb withdrawal in southern Jugoslavia, In Battle Array The main north -south Greek de fense line along which the Brit ish expeditionary force is belieV' ed drawn up in battle array is hingedon the Vardar running soutn to tne uuir or aioniKa If the Germans reach the valley they may be able to turn this line from the rear, an operation similar simi-lar to that against that Maginot line in France. Greek diplomats in Istanbul re ported that the Germans have reached the Aegean at Alexand roupolis, a small port less than 20 miles from Turkey's frontier de fenses in eastern Thrace The Germans apparently cross- xi thf 40 tn 50 mile from the r,,, : v,r with little rUf. ficulty aa Greece had withdrawn a11 except a light covering force from this region. A Greek com (Continued on Page Three) Play Proceeds 6a For British Aid Last-minute details are being whipped into shape for the per formance of "It Shall Keep Thee, to be presented at the Provo high school auditorium Wednesday evening. The curtain will go up at 8:15 o'clock, and Provoans who attend are promised a rare treat. The Salt Lake Theater Guild is pro ducing the play, and all proceeds' will go towards the fund for the Bundles for Britain. The play was presented before enthusiastic audiences during B. Y. U. Leadership week, also, in Salt Lake City and other parts of the state. Tickets are still on sale, and may be purchased at the door, also, and the Bundles for Britain committee urge the hearty cooperation of the citizens of Provo and surrounding territory. D.V.U. Dand Consort 8. Ohorcs to Assist gram of music ' rendered by the splendid organization, and the second is to give recognition atid honor to Professor Robert Sauer and his musicians," Professor Sauer and his organization organ-ization will select numbers and arrange the program. The assisting assist-ing chorus from Provo high will be under the direction of Ernest Paxman. Admission to the recital will be upon the presentation of tickets which may be obtained free from the chamber of commerce upon request. - Turkey i . . . . . . By UNITED PRESS BUDAPEST German sources reported without official confirmation confir-mation tonight that Nazi troops have smashed across Jugoslavia from Bulgaria to slash the main north-south Jugoslav railroad at Nish and Skipolje. ATTIEXS The royal air force roared Into action to Lay to blast at a German column driving: toward the Vardar river, just north of the irk frontier, a-1 !--It mou&t&la f ort-ejS were ir-ported to have trapjKxi a Nazi necha.ntxel force In ffrg northeast of Komotint. BERLIN The official German news agency DNB reported from j Sofia that first Greek prisoners or war taken by the Germans arrived ar-rived in the Bulgarian capital today. to-day. London The Dut h and Beljrian gwermwnts In exile In London today recalled their diplomatic re pr etitAtive from Hungary. The recall followed British action in severing diplomatic relations with Hungary yesterday. NAIROBI, Kenya Italian forces in Ethiopia are being pursued pur-sued on all fronts following Sunday's Sun-day's occupation of Addis Ababa by British empire forces, a South African communique said today. LONDON Greek troops completely com-pletely wiped out an important German column attempting to enter en-ter Greek territory through a ravine, the exchange telegraph asserted today in a dispatch -from, Athens. ZURICH Reliable diplomatic diplo-matic quarters reported to-nlght to-nlght that the Italians have completely evacuated Flume which lies just acrot the northern Juoslav border. CAIRO .. British planes continuously con-tinuously attacked enemy airdromes air-dromes and motor transport concentrations con-centrations in Libya during the past week, the royal air force middle east headquarters said today. BERLIN The newspaper Boersen Zeitung today criticized Switzerland for permitting dis-crer-ancy between official foreign policy and popular expression within the country. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "The farmers' wailin' don't worry me. I never saw a Spring that wasn't either too wet or too dry for the farmers to have any hope of a crop." |