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Show I 1 The Weather UTAH: Fair tonight and Wednesday Wed-nesday except partly cloudy with widely scattered showers In southeast tonight; little change In temperature. Max. temp., Monday 61 Min. temp., Monday i'i ui7f f ai County By Patronizing Home Stores and Business House FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 208 0 l'TAH'S ONUY DA1LT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO," UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941 COMPLETE TOTED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS n n U3 n ' n u '- "vy v l TT) o) fo) hi m to n ni)jF n an p LliJ kj JUL JlJu u - W li Ll u m mw,, r J ft A i ; i - i- n J IMuAJ DESK-CHAT DESK-CHAT ct xtte EDrroa Vice President Wallace has suggested that somebody-ought somebody-ought to write a Bill of Duties for the United States to balance the Bill of Rights. It's a good idea. We are quite right in deciding that even the defense drive must be carried on without sacrificing bard-won rights. But citizen ship in a democracy, and cs-neciallv cs-neciallv ritizenshin in this free republic, also implies duties. The more we accept as a matter of duty, the less likely it is that any great cry will arise for infringement or curtailment of rights. Sometimes there is conflict between the two. A few a very few, it should be said have -argued that the draft was an infringement of their rights. But the overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority sensed and felt immediately that here was a matter of duty. Keep the rights, yes. by all means ! But they can be kept only by holding equally firmly firm-ly to the duties. oOo Heard in Passing The .average family consists of 4.3 persons. That decimal point must be dad. . . . When in Rome, one no longer does as the Romans do. Even the Romans now must do as the Germans do. . . . Government freezes steel prices. That's going to leave any potential war profiteers right out in the cold. . . . Anybody can meet expenses the real trick is to avoid them. ... A dollar dol-lar doesn't go as far as it used to but much faster. . . . Main problem today seems to be. to get airplanes, into the nir while keeping cost of living liv-ing figures on the ground. " oOo "Let All My Life Be Music" sang the Provo high school girls at the school music festival fes-tival last night. Judging from the fine training and extensive exten-sive musical program carried or in the junior and senior high schools here, our students stu-dents will have an excellent start towards a wholesome utlook on music appreciation in life in the years to come. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going1 On in National Affairs : By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN CIO Owes Its Victory in Steel Wage Parleys To Bitter Enemy Weir; He Doubled U. S. Steel's Offer to Check Unionizing in Own Plants; Camouflage Ends Army's Glitter, But Panama General Gen-eral Shines It Up. WASHINGTON The CIO steel workers owe their spectacular wage-increase victory to a man who is one of their bitterest foes. He is Ernest T. Weir, former Treasurer of the Republican National Na-tional Committee and head of the Weirton Steel Company, which is under charges fore the National Labor Relations Board in the longest case on record. The story of how this militant anti-CIO battler broke the resistance to its wage demands de-mands is one of the most extraordinary extra-ordinary in steel's turbulent history. his-tory. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO's steel union) aimed its first shaft at U. S. Stoel. mighty giant of the industry, indus-try, which has 'had a contract with the SWOC for several years. Theory behind the strategy- was that once "Big Steel" came to terms, the others would have to fall into line. In his first talk with U. S. Steel officials. Fhil Murray mentioned men-tioned no specific figure. The company officers indicated will-continued will-continued on Page Eight) RECITAL WEDNESDAY DT. Florence J. Madsen will present pre-sent three of her vocal students in a recital Wednesday at 8 p.m., in College hall, the public being invited Tree. The students- are Florence Francis, soprano; Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Robbing, contralto, and Warren War-ren Kirk, tenor. hearing on TAX BILL TO START SOOH Three and a Half Billion Minimum Goal of New Tax Bill WASHINGTON, April 22 (U.R) The house ways and means committee agreed today to-day to fix $3,500,000,000 as the "minimum goal" of the new tax bill. It will start public hearings Thursday, with Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as the first witness. Chairman Robert Doughton, D.. S. C, indicated that the committee commit-tee split on the vote to set $3,-500,000,000 $3,-500,000,000 as a minimum objective. objec-tive. However, he refused to disclose dis-close the vote. He added the committee had not "taken an oath or given a bond" to raise that sum, but said it would be done if it were "reasonably" "reas-onably" possible. Asked whether a sales tax and steeper excess profits tax had been discussed, Doughton replied that "every conceivable tax that can be imagined will come up, I suppose." Doughton said some "alternatives" "alterna-tives" to the treasury proposals were presented to the committee this morning by C. T. Stam, chief of staff of tax experts retained by the joint congressional committee on internal revenue. COAL SHORTAGE TO BEREL1EVED PRICE, Utah, April 22 (U.P An acute coal shortage in domestic yards in Carbon county was being be-ing relieved today as eight small mines resumed production under agreement with the United Mine Workers of America (CIO). Agreements between the mines, closed since the beginning of the bituminous coal work stoppage April 1, and the union, were signed last night. About 12 mines, all small producers, were involved. Union officials said that the mines with which the contracts were prepared were called "wagon mines," denoting that they employed em-ployed only a few miners each and furnished coal to truckers and trucking companies exclusively. Production in the major coal mines of Carbon and Emery counties coun-ties remained halted as the stoppage stop-page went into its twenty-second day. The major operators have charged the union with breaking faith in calling the work stoppage and are declining to negotiate further contracts. Several operator opera-tor representatives have gone to Washington and New York in art effort to prevent any new general gen-eral contract from containing clauses that would raise the price of producing coal in the western fields. U. S. Should Try To Get Along With Hitler, Says Wheeler MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 22 (CI!) The United States should prepare to "get along" with Adolf Hitler should he be victorious,' Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Montana, Mon-tana, said today. "We will have to get along with our neighbors, even though we don't like the way they do things," Wheeler said. The senator said he had received re-ceived a number of threats, including in-cluding one from a "citizen's committee com-mittee of 100 per cent Americans" at Rockford, 111., where he is scheduled to speak April 28. He said he was "used to" such threats. -1ST- Proyo Jaycees To Take Over Provo Chamber of commerce directors Monday night took under un-der advisement a request by the junior chamber to take over a program of activities, including some projects previously fostered by the senior chamber. The Jaycees asked for exclusive exclu-sive rights to promote the Christmas Christ-mas lighting program, all sporting sport-ing events in the city including wrestling, swimming and football, and the annual clean-up and paint-up campaign. Roosevelt Aid New Pig Iron Industry for Utah Mt. Pleasant Coal Deposits Would Be Utilized Util-ized To Manufacture Pig Iron For West Coast, Bonneville Steel WASHINGTON, April 22 (U.R) Henry J. Kaiser, west coast industrial engineer, today asked President Roosevelt to support a new program to establish a. $150,000,000 steel production chain in Utah, southern California and the Bonneville Bonne-ville power area. After presenting to Mr. Roosevelt statistics which he claimed show his scheme practicable. Kaiser said "if we get a green light, I can produce steel from scrap in eight months :n the west coast and steel from mm a . . t yaw upfimistEc 0er Ootleofi for Rsiv Utah Fleets SALT LAKE CITY, April 22 (L'.E) Governor Herbert B. Maw of Utah today received optimistically optimisti-cally news that President Roosevelt Roose-velt had been asked to support a $150,000,000 western steel production pro-duction chain. . One of the central units of the chain, as proposed to Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt by Henry J. Kaiser, official of the Bix Six Contracting company, com-pany, t-uilder of Boulder dam, would be a pig iron plant at Mt. Pleasant, Utah, 90 miles south of Salt Lake City. "That Mt. Pleasant plant is the same one Senator Abe Murdock and I discussed with the president on my recent trip to Washington," Governor Maw explained. "We recommended it be located at Mt. Pleasant because that area has the best supply of coking coal essential to iron ore refining refin-ing in the west. May Cost 40 MUlions "The plant probably would cost 30 to 40 million dollars. It. would use iron ore from the large, rich deposits in Iron county." Maw said that on his own talk with the president, Mr. Roosevelt had been favorably impressed with Utah's prospects as a steel producing state. The governor said pig iron now produced in the plant of the Columbia Col-umbia Steel company at Provo, using the same coking coal and iron ore planned for the Mt. Pleasant smelter," cost less than similar iron produced in the east. "Pig iron that costs 510 to produce pro-duce in the Columbia plant costs $13 to produce in the east," Maw said. He believed the large supply sup-ply of presently-unemployed labor available in Utah also might influence in-fluence the government to aid in locating the steel plant at Mt. Pleasant. Maw saia the number of persons employed in the pjjject plant "would naturally depend on exactly ex-actly how large it is." Hospital Guild Plans Projects Projects were discussed at the meeting of the executive committee commit-tee of the Utah Valley Hospital Guild, held Monday afternoon at the hospital. Mrs. Victor J. Bird, president of the guild, was in charge. ; The equipment of . a sewing room, and toys for the children were introduced as present needs of the hospital and were discussed by the women. The guild invites more women to join the organization, and announces an-nounces that more volunteer workers for the sewing and mending mend-ing projects are needed. Those able to assist with this work are asked to get in touch with Mrs. Wyman Berg or Mrs. Jacob Coleman. Cole-man. Propose Plan Civic Activities The senior chamber directors said they would decide at the next meeting May 5. H. Eddie Nicholson, president, headed the junior chamber delegation. J. Will Robinson, congressman from Utah and former Provoan, and Dr. A. Rex Johnson, formerly of Provo and now at George Washington university, were appointed ap-pointed to be delegates for the Provo chamber at the convention of the U. S. chamber of commerce com-merce in Washington, April 28 to May 1. Asked I o ure 111 X4. Sees Large Plant-Kaiser Plant-Kaiser disclosed he had laid his plans before the office of production produc-tion management last Friday, asking for authorizations which would open the way for actual establishment of plants whose total to-tal cost would approximate $150,- 000. 000. He said he envisages ultimate steel capacity on the west coast of from 1,000,000 to 1, 250,000 tons a year. Simultaneous with Kaiser's visit to the White House, the OPM announced an-nounced that W. A. Hauck, OPM consultant on steel capacity and production, left today to inspect the steel situation in Utah and in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle areas. The OPM said that Hauck would study measures needed to facilitate and expedite steel deliveries on the west coast. He apparently will study feasibility feasibil-ity of Kaiser's plan. He also will visit plants making heavy steel forgings for the army, navy and maritime commission. Utah Pig Iron Plant Kaiser said his plan calls for three major plants: 1. A pig iron plant at Mt. Pleasant, Utah, utilizing coal deposits de-posits in that area. 2. A high grade steel ' mill in the Bonneville dam area, making steel from scrap by using Bonneville's Bonne-ville's power. 3. A major mill in southern California, using' pigs shipped west from the Mt. Pleasant plant and utilizing both gas and electricity elec-tricity in a new process of steel production. - He was accompanied to the White House by Sen. Abe Mur-dock, Mur-dock, D., (Utah, who indicated that Mr. Roosevelt was extremely receptive to the engineer's idea. "As a member of the senate, I don't believe any more Important conference has been held for national na-tional defense than that between the presidnt and Kaiser," Mur-dock Mur-dock said. Kaiser refused to discuss financing fin-ancing of his scheme or to disclose dis-close how much federal backing he might seek in actual establishment establish-ment of the western steel centers. He insisted that his plans are concrete con-crete and eminently feasible. "I believe I have had sufficient raw materials studies made to in sure this plan," he said. "As for operating personnel, I have definite arrangements made under which I know I can get the necessary men. "We also have assurances that we can get . the necessary personnel per-sonnel for plant designing." Kaiser made it clear he took definite issue with President Roosevelt's previous .position that existing steel facilities are adequate ade-quate for both defense and civilian needs. "We are unable to get steel promptly even for defense projects, proj-ects, except under extreme priorities," priori-ties," Kaiser said. Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia ... 000 210 Boston 000 00 Johnson and Livingston; Tobin and Masi. Brooklyn 020 0 New York 000 0 - Casey and Owen; Melton and Danning. Pittsburgh 00 St. Louis ...... 00 Sewell and Lopez; Wamcke and W. Cooper. . , . AMERICAN LEAGUE St, Louis 102 100 Cleveland 011 000 Auker and Swift; Milnar and Hemsley. New York 020 300 Philadelphia . . . 000 005 Chandler and Dickey; McGrab and Hayes. Boston 320 Washington . . . 310 Harris and Peacock; Masterson and Ferrell. Chicago 010 140 Detroit 000 00 American Mother J -"V Mrs. Den a Shelby Diehl, Danville, Dan-ville, Ky., is the American Mother of 1941, selected by American Mothers' Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation as "representative of the best in motherhood." Mrs. Diehl, mother moth-er of four daughters and great-great great-great granddaughter of first Kentucky governor, is speaker, writer and teacher. James E. Danis! 0 Former T.layor of -Prouo, Dies Here James Edward Daniels, 87, former for-mer mayor of Provo, died today at 10:45 a. m., at his home, 381 East Fourth South, of causes incident in-cident to age. He was a life-long resident of Provo. Mr. Daniel3 was well known throughout central Utah, and "held many public offices, including includ-ing deputy sheriff, member of. the City council, city marshal, and mayor. He was elected to the latter lat-ter post in 1916, serving in that capacity during the first World war. Provo's first street paving took place while he was mayor. Born in Payson He was born November 18, 1853 in Payson, the son of James E. and Elizabeth Jones Daniels. His father and ' mother were among the first volunteers to settle set-tle Payson. They moved to Provo the year after his birth. During his early manhood, Mr. Daniels worked at the carpenter trade, and as a clerk in a co-op store owned by S. S. Jones. Following Fol-lowing this he worked for the railroads, doing construction work througrlout the state. Later in life he followed ranching and stock raising. Mr. . Daniels married Emma Spafford May 8, 1876 in the old endowment house at Salt Lake City. She died May 20, 1032. He was an active member of the Li. D. S. church. Mr. Daniels is survived by two sons and two daughters, James Willis Daniels, Mrs. C. W. Thomas Thom-as and Mrs. Shirl Ferre, all of Provo, and S. W. Daniels of Long Beach, Cal.; also one sister, Mrs. John R. Twelves of Salt Lake City; 20 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1:30 p. m., in the First ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Walter P. Whitehead. Friends may call at the Berg mortuary Saturday evening and at the home prior to the services Sunday. Burial will be in the Provo Pro-vo city cemetery. TAX SALE SET HERE 'ON MAY 9 Utah county's annual tax sale will be held May 9 at 10 a. m., on the front steps of the city and county building, Marcellus Nielson of Mapleton, county auditor, announced today. Approximately 300 parcels of property upon which taxes are delinquent for four years, will come up for sale. Mr. Nielsen said. This is about the same number num-ber as last year. Under the law, the county takes an auditor's tax deed on the delinquent parcels, unless the owners own-ers pay the taxes prior to the sale date. The public has the right to bid on the property at the sale, and those parcels not purchased by someone at the sale go into possession pos-session of the county to be sold back to the owner or disposed of otherwise, the auditor stated. TOWN'SEXD CLUB A national speaker will address th mppfino- of the TowTisend club Wednesdav at 7:30 T. m.. in the II Ml I I 1 II (ill. aLUiUllIK. i. . officers. Musical numbers are also slated. Everyone is invited. 1 F. D. R. ASKS coal -mm BE RESUMED Government Officials Confident Request Will Be Heeded Federal officials were confident con-fident Tuesday that soft coal mines would be reopened at once in response to President Roosevelt's demand that production pro-duction be resumed "in the interest of national safety." Union officials and mine operators promised replies after they have studied Mr. Roosevelt's appeal, which was issued last night. Vigorous efforts to re-open the mines pending settlement on a retroactive basis of the dispute over wage rates in the southern mines, as proposed by the president, presi-dent, was expected in view of the strong wording of his statement, which concluded: "Bituminous coal production must be resumed, and promptly. The public interest demands it and the public interest is paramount." para-mount." Southern coal operators announced an-nounced after a conference at the White House today they would resume re-sume negotiations for reopening the mines at President Roosevelt's request. The delegation of operators said they would leave this afternoon after-noon for New York to discuss terms for reopening the mines with John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president. The CIO -Aluminum Workers union and the Aluminum Com pany of America agreed at Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh on an eight-cent hourly increase in-crease for 17,000 employes at five plants. The increase was expected to be extended to all of the company's com-pany's 40,000 workers. Prohibit Strikes At Seattle, a group of Pacific Coast Metal Trades Councils and Shipbuilders reached an agreement agree-ment prohibiting strikes and lockouts lock-outs during the national defense industry, a proposal which President Presi-dent Roosevelt said would be "a step in the right direction for speeding up the whole shipbuilding shipbuild-ing program." Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins certified to the defense mediation board a dispute between be-tween two AFL unions, representing represent-ing 1,100 workers, and the Kellogg Kel-logg Switchboard and Supply company, Chicago. Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner of Michigan prepared appointment appoint-ment of a special mediation commission com-mission to deal with a strike threat by the United Automobile Workers (CIO) against 30 Michigan Michi-gan plants of the General' Motors Corporation. This Day . . BORN Boy, to Max Bunnell and Hazel Irene Newman Gordon. Boy, to Orson Preston and Ver-na Ver-na Mary Mecham Vernon. Boy, to Mark and Beth Prest-wich Prest-wich Bigler. Boy, to Cloyd and Millie Stubbs Booth. LICENSED TO MARY R. Gerber Gardner, 23, American Ameri-can Fork, and Margaret Cody Dunkley, 21, American Fork. Frank Thayne BatemanA23, Alpine, Al-pine, and Louise Hayward, 20, American Fork. Fill Uacant By THE DIRT SLEUTH I picked up a magazine yesterday, yester-day, and there in bold headlines was this statement: "A city is a conglomeration of buildings and homes. Only when each one is neat and attractive in appearance can a city be called beautiful." With that in mind, may I refer to a back lot in the rear of several homes near the corner of Seventh North and University avenue. And you neighbors on each side of the vacant lot near the northeast north-east corner of the block at Fourth North and University avenue, you must have misunderstood the reference ref-erence at previous date to said vacant lot. I did not say for you to dump your refuse thereon, but to refrain from doing it. A new i pile of limbs graces the front of 1 British, Greeks Battle GeFEmamis At TIieFEiaopylae Allied Forces Face Tremendous Odds in Battling German Panzer Divisions; Nazis 100 Miles From Athens By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Britain and Greece fought to hold Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg; blitz-krieg; armies on the ancient battlefield at Thermopylae and on islands guarding entrance to the Dardanelles today, after the Royal Navy battered the Axis base at Tripoli in the longest long-est big-gun bombardment of the war. On the Greek front, the allied forces faced tremendous odds in battling constant air attack and the pressure of Germany's Ger-many's Iron Panzer divisions fighting to establish positions In the mountains less than 100S miles northwest of Athens. Climax Approaching London indicated the climactic test would come in attempting to defend a 40-mile line running from near Thermoyplae to the mountains near the Gulf of Corinth, thus establishing a rearguard rear-guard defense along the peninsula leading to Athens and possibly permitting the Greek army in the west to pull back from the German Ger-man pincers. Farther east, German troops dashing across the Aegean sea in powerful speed boats, presumably from Salonika, were reported to have occupied the Greek island of Samothrace, which lies just outside out-side Turkish territorial waters, and to have attacked the Greek island of Lemnos, which is 40 miles from the entrance to the Dardanelles and commands the approaches. w , , . A , A Greek garrison was known to be on Lemnos and there were reports re-ports British troops had been landed there recently, but the outcome out-come of the battle was not known, according: to Istanbul dispatches. The British navy was reported counter-attacking the Germans in an effort to drive them back to the mainland Navy Joins R. A. F. i The navy was joined by naval planes and the RAF in the attack on Tripoli, the Axis base for the current ' land campaign through Libya, into Egypt and against the Suez Canal. The RAF alone dropped drop-ped 10 tons of bombs on the coastal coast-al base, according to a communique communi-que issued at Cairo, while the 15-inch 15-inch guns of big British warships battered the harbor. The attack on Tripoli was designed de-signed to weaken the Axis drive into Egypt, which Berlin and Rome said was making progress in the Solium sector again after (Continued on Page Three) U.S. Observer in Sudan Is Killed WASHINGTON. April 22 Hr.V.) The state department announced announc-ed today that Col. Gerald Brower, U. S. military observer with the Royal Air Force In the middle east, was killed April 20 at El Obeld. 250 miles southwest of Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian sudan. Word of Brower's death, the second to occur among U. S. military mil-itary representatives in the war zones, was relayed to the department depart-ment by Minister Alexander Kirk at Cairo. Capt. Robert Losey was killed in a bombing raid in Norway Nor-way last year. The circumstances under which Brower was killed were not included in-cluded in the dispatch. 'S Lois Uiih IMIiisli the lot and they apparently came from one of the neighbor's. There are some lovely homes and gardens between Seventh and Ninth East on Center street. Also there is a delightful recreation and park area across the street at Ninth East. But who owns those weed patches that so vividly detract from the beauty of the homes, gardens and parks. Mayor Anderson, some one left word for your humble sleuth to ask if the city was in the mood for continuing the work of fixing up sidewalks, broken or damaged by tree root growth? Between Second and Third East on Center, is a lot which I can't see how I missed checking before. Why don't you property owners take a look at it and see what you can do about it, i ILnCecS Wan3 liiiGtinnac By UNITED PRESS BERLIN German military spokesmen claimed tonight the retreat of British forces in Greece has been turned into a "precipitate "precipi-tate flight," with the Nazi air force harassing the entire line of withdrawal, embarkation ports and ships clearing Greece for the open seas. VICHY, France Jugoslav informants in-formants asserted today that 187 Jugoslav air force planes had landed safely in Russia and that I the crews hoped to fly on to aid me Ames in Greece. SHANGHAI The Japanese-dominated Japanese-dominated press editorialized today to-day on possibility of war between Japan and the United States, with the Central China Daily News, owned by Wang Ching-wei, head of the Nanking government, saying say-ing a conflict is "inevitable." BERLIN The official DNB news agency reported today from Vienna that Adolf Hitler met with Itsly's foreign minister. Count Galeazzo Ciano, on Sunday. VICHY Unofficial reports circulating cir-culating here tonight said Spanish General Francisco Franco had again refused his consent to the passag-e of German troops through Spain for an attack on the British fortress of Gibralter. LONDON The admiralty said today naval aircraft had torpedoed' three enemy supply ships totalling total-ling 23,000 tons. The ships were carrying supplies to enemy forces in the Balkans. Five Families in Bingham Homeless After Bad Blaze BINGHAM CANYON. Utah. April 22 (U.R) Five families were homeless today as a result of a spectacular fire that swept through three buildings in the Highland Boy district of Bingham canyon. Damage was estimated at $6,-000. $6,-000. Twenty other families left their homes in the densely populated popu-lated canyon bottom when the fire threatened to spread through the frame structures. Municipal Power System Observes 1st Anniversary "Today marks one year's successful operation of your municipal power plant. Hearty congratulations to you commissioners and the department of utilities." That was the telegram received Monday afternoon by Mayor Mark Anderson from G. E. Hines of Lebanon, Leban-on, Ind., former vice president presi-dent of the Ulen Contracting corporation, who designed the Provo plant. While the municipal plant began supplying the city with electricity April 21, 1940, it did not take over the full load until April 27. according to Mayor Anderson. An-derson. Since that date there have been no outages due to plant failure. i |