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Show The Weather ' tTTAII: Sunday cloudy with rain or snow. Little change In temp-. temp-. erature. - i Maximum temp., Saturday . . 43 Minimum temp., Saturday ... 80 Z?i7(f rfai County By Patronizing Home Stores and Business Houses VOL. 18, NO. 32 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBUARY 9, 1941 COMPLETE UXITED PRESS TELEPGKAPH NEWS SERVICE! PRICE FIVE CENTS -,'v..I---".i;.::--l--,-."..". D CHAT ct thk ETrrc3 A Jewish taxi driver who got shot going to help an Irish cop, was discharged from a Catholic hospital and presented with a new cab by an English dealer and a medallion me-dallion license by a retiring Scotch cab driver. They were Americans all, the nationalities mentioned being merely references to obvious ancestry. It all happened hap-pened in New York the other day, an aftermath of the Fifth Avenue holdup shooting of Jan. 14. There was no thought of racial origins or religion when guns started popping and frenzied feet pounded the sidewalks. They were all in it together; the instinct- to help was automatic, instantaneous. instan-taneous. In the face of" a greater crisis, ought not the same in stinct to stick together, help one another, to come natural-lv natural-lv to the surface, without thought of race or creed? Of sourse. We're all in this thing together. -cOo East side residents want to know why can't gravel be kept off sidewalk on north side of First North between First East and University Avenue? oOo Sense and Nonsense When a careless driver doesn't look where he is going, go-ing, it may be to the hospital. . . . Painter was fined for slapping a girl in Chicago. Maybe he just wanted to see if the paint was dry. . . JThis ought to start some nice arguments. ar-guments. A jury in Beaver Falls., Pa., decided a fur coat for the wife was a necessity. . . . We're still wondering how many of Hitler's admitted admit-ted 724 mistakes were Mussolini. Musso-lini. GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going1 On in National Affair Ey DSEW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Pierre Laval, Backed By German Ger-man Army, is Real Ruler of ' France Today ; ex-Premier's Pro-Nazi Traced To Futile Trip To U. S. in 1931 Cool Welcome He Got in Washington Wash-ington Soured Him Against U. S., Britain; May Now Force Vichy To Let Nazis Use French Bases in Afri ca, Syria. (Editor's Note Pierre Laval, La-val, the No. 1' appeaser of France, now back in power at Vichy, gets the Brass Ring and a free but bumpy ride on The Washington Merry-Go-Round.) WASHINGTON Ten years ago a short, swarthy Frenchman, adorned in cheap cotton white-string white-string tie, stood in the front hall of Ambassador Edge's home on ISth street and answered a barrage bar-rage of questions from Washington Washing-ton newspapermen about the reasons rea-sons for his pilgrimage to President Presi-dent Hoover. He was Pierre Laval, then Premier Pre-mier of France, now the man who holds the future of France largely large-ly in his hands. For the return of Laval, the mighty Nazi army behind be-hind him, makes him the real ruler of France today. Upon him depends whether the still potent fleet of France and her strategic bases in North Africa fall into Hitler's hands. With those naval bases, all-important to Hitler for the purpose of checking the march of British victory in North Africa, it almost may be said that the outcome of the Mediterranean war, perhaps the entire war, depends upon one man. Historians have recorded that the fate of nations sometimes has been decided by personalities, mistresses, and what statesmen ate for breakfast. In the case of Pierre Laval, it appears that the present course of history in France might have run differently different-ly if Laval had not crossed the (Continued on Page 3, Section 2) 7T V JLegtsiators maize Utah County Visit; Hospital Inspected Senate, House Committees Hear Reports, Witness Clinics, Exhibits; Dr. Pace, President Jones Outline Policies Operations of the Utah state hospital at Provo and the Utah state training school at American Fork were scrutinized scrutin-ized by some 50 Utah state legislators and their wives at an educational tour of the two institutions Saturday. The legislators including committeemen from both the house and the senate visited the American Fork institution in-stitution in the forenoon, and had dinner there at noon. Dr. H. H. Ramsey, superintendent, conducted the tour. Arriving' in Provo shortly be-s rore a p. m.t the visitors assembled at the mam hall at the Utah State hospital where they heard reports by hospital officials and supervisors, witnessed a scientific clinic, examined exhibits of art, handiwork, and occupational therapy, ther-apy, and had a buffet luncheon. J. E. Jones of Salt Lake City, president of the hospital board of trustees, addressed the legislators legisla-tors briefly, outlining: the policies of the board. The prime interest of the board, lie said, is to look after the welfare of the patients and do everything possible for them. Referring- to Governor Maw's reorganization plan, which would affect the hospital, he said it is not the desire of the board, individually in-dividually or collectively, to perpetuate per-petuate themselves, but that" if a better system can be found in operating the institution, the board will be the first to back it. All doctors of the hospital staff took part in a scientific clinic which followed, each discussing a type of mental illness, then demonstrating dem-onstrating it by interviewing a patient. Employe heads of all departments depart-ments gave brief speeches, outlining out-lining the work of their respective departments. One of the department depart-ment heads speaking was Francis M. Olseh, chef at the institution for 30 years, who said he had served under four superintendents but that more progress in bringing bring-ing his department up to date had been made during the past eight yetrrsr-tharr ever beforer - Sheldon Brewster, speaker of the house, spoke briefly, expressing express-ing the legislators' appreciation for the informative tour provided by the hospital. Senator George M. Miller of Price, representing Wendell M. Grover, president of the senate, spoke similar sentiments. senti-ments. Earl T. Foote, house chairman of the hospital committee, stated the legislators were very favorably favor-ably impressed. Dr. Garland H. Pace, superintendent superin-tendent of the hospital, reviewed the growth of the institution. He stated that the hospital each year has been able to live within its (Continued on Page Four) TWO HURT AS TRUCKS CRASH SPANISH FORK Larry Easth-rope, Easth-rope, 37, of Sunset, suffered severe se-vere cuts and bruises Friday afternoon aft-ernoon when a coal truck he was driving crashed into the rear of another truck driven by Ivan Smith, 25, of Midvale, in the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon, officers report. The truck driven by Easthrope reportedly belonged to Goldie Steed of Clearfield. Officers said the first truck baroke an axle and stopped in the middle of the highway. A second truck turned out but Mr. Easthrope was unable to see the stalled machine in time to avoid the collision, it waB reported. Coal was scattered approximately 125 feet. Each of the three trucks traveling together was carrying 10 tons of coal. Tito Schipa, Great Tenor, To Sing in Concert Monday A musical event of more than passing interest is the appearance of Tito Schipa, celebrated lyric tenor at a concert Monday night under the auspices of the local Community -' University Concert association. The concert is scheduled sched-uled to begin at 8 p. m. and is for holders of season cards only, no single admission tickets being for sale. The great Schipa, a native of Italy, has been before the American Amer-ican public for 21 years during which time he has earned the title of the "world's most beloved tenor." His voice, flexible, agile, and rich in velvet quality, makes even the most trivial of his offerings of-ferings yield an esthetic satisfaction satisfac-tion to the listener. Over a hundred opera roles are included in his repertoire, his favorite fa-vorite being the title role in Massenet's Mas-senet's "Werther." He prefers concert to opera appearances as n H 7 REORGANIZATION DILLS APPROVED BY ATTORNEYS BY DAVE DRYDEN SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 8 U.E ' Reference attorneys today completed com-pleted work on more than 40 bills designed to supplement Gov. Herbert B. Maw's "Master Plan" for government reorganization and legislators predicted early action in both the Utah Senate and house of representatives on the program. The bills were to be introduced introduc-ed in the senate early next week, possibly Monday. They will repeal powers and duties of scores of the present 122 branches of state government and set up the 16 commissions proposed by the governor in his "master bill." Both chambers were in recess today. The house of representatives representa-tives and a comittee from the senate travelled to Provo to inspect in-spect state institutions there. Before leaving, however, legislators legis-lators forecast they would begin actual work on state reorganization reorganiza-tion next week. . ..AspecJaJ llimaju. house committee com-mittee investigating- reorganization reorganiza-tion scheduled a public hearing on the governor's bill at the New-house New-house hotel Monday night. The committee planned to report the bill out after the hearing so that debate could begin in the house (Continued on Page Two) TOO HURT in CANYON CRASH Two persons were treated at the Utah Valley hospital Saturday Satur-day for cuts and bruises suffered in a two-car automobile accident Saturday at 4 p. m. in Provo canyon. They were Mrs. Lydia Holda-way, Holda-way, about 65, and Lydia Bent-wet, Bent-wet, 10, both of ' Provo. The two were occupants in a car driven by Carl Bentwet, 42, father of the child and son-in-law of Mrs. Holdaway. The Bentwet car, traveling up the canyon, was struck by a machine driven down the canyon by Ted Scofield, 19, of Provo. Scofield told Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Powell he applied his brakes to avoid hitting a car driven driv-en just ahead of him by Mrs. Don Cloward of Payson and skidded on the slick road into the Bentwet Bent-wet car. Other occupants of the Bentwet machine included Mrs. Bentwet, 47, Elaine Bentwet, 16, and Banda Bentwet, 13. Riding with Scofield Sco-field were LeGrand Young, 19; Frank Taylor, 19; Keith Ercan-brack, Ercan-brack, 18; Norma Taylor, 19. and Barbara -Wootton, 19, all B. Y. U. students who had been skiing. TITO SCHIPA giving the singer .a more personal and closer touch with his audience. audi-ence. f He is also a composer, his opera, "Principessa Liana," being per- (Continued on Page Two) FLOP HOUSE FIRE T Twenty - Five Others Treated for Burns At Hospital DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 8 (U.R) Nine men, .trapped in a, fire that made & blazing, pyre of a Salvation r Army flophouse flop-house where 50 men were sleeping, were ' burned tcf death today. , Twenty -five others were taken to hospitals for treatment and several of them were in a critical condition. . Three men were dead when firemen .got to them late last night.-, A fourth died enroute to a hospital, and five others died early this morning. morn-ing. One of the dead was Julius Benson. 45, assistant manager of the house. He went Into the building three times to bring men out. Two others were J. E. White and Thomas Cook, addresses address-es unknown. Some of the ' victims - were burned; some fractured arms and legs leaping from the two-story building. Some suffered both burns and fractured limbs. Fire Chief L. M. Funk said the fire started in a fumigator, at head of the stairs. Transients were compelled to leave their clothes in it overnight for "de-lousing," "de-lousing," and a gas flame was kept burning in the fumigator to vaporize chemicals that killed the vermin. From the fumigator, a five-by-eight foot room with a beaver-board beaver-board ceiling, the fire swept into the big sleeping room, lined with double-decker bunks. Most of the men were asleep when one opened the door. Flames covered him. Three or four, by bending low as they ran, escaped down the stairs before they became be-came impassable. There was no fire escape. The others ran to the opposite end of the room. . Some leaped. Others 'were afraid, and ran back to the front windows, but flames drove them back. One man, wedged in a front window, died screaming as a crowd watched him. The men afraid to jump were panic-stricken and fought ' each other, screaming, cursing and praying, before firemen got to them. Most of the Injured were those who remained in the room; breathing smoke and fumes. The victims ranged from youths to old, white-haired men. Induction Dai For Utah Guard Sot for arch 3 SALT LAKE CITY. Feb- 8 air.) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today notified Gov. Herbert Herb-ert B. Maw that the Utah National Na-tional Guard will definitely be inducted Into federal service March 3. ' Induction of the Utah guard was originally planned for last December but deplayed because of difficulties encountered in construction con-struction of proper quarters at San Louis Obispo, Cal., where the Utah guardsmen as members of the 40th division will train. A drive to bring the enrollment of Battery "F", 145th Field Artillery Artil-lery up to its alloted induction strength was launched Saturday. The allotted strength is 99 guardsmen, whereas the present enrollment is in the sixties. The week-long drive is to give men of Provo and , vicinity a chance to serve their year of military mili-tary service with men of the same vinicity, officers of the guard state. A display of equipment of the artillery will be made in a downtown down-town store. Interested applicants must be between ages of 18 and 35, in good physical condition and of good character. The recruiting office is established estab-lished in the Armory building at 48 North First West.' The office will be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., this week, and on Monday nights thereafter. County Towns Ask 4000 Acre Feet of Deer Creek Water MIDVALE, Utah, Feb. 8 OJ.P) The Salt Lake county culinary water committee today had voted to petition the Metropolitan Water Wa-ter district for an additional 4,000 acre feet of culinary water from the Deer Creek reservoir project. The additional water, committeemen committee-men said, would be adequate to meet all culinary needs of Salt Lake county towns. ARES L IS OF 9 Lions Chief i ' " '-' 1 " 1 I V'' ... -lf- I (: ' L . L': i ir4 -,T - KARL M. SORRICK LIOHS TO GREET INTERNATIONAL CHIEF IN S.L. Provo Lions club members will join with fellow Lions from 45 other clubs in Utah to honor Karl M. Sorrick, of Springport, Mich., president of Lions International at a banquet Wednesday at 7 p. m. in the Newhouse hotel. Arrangements for the banquet are in charge of Aura C. Hatch, district governor 28-U, who will conduct the affair. D. A. Skeen, Salt Lake City, past international director, will introduce. Mr. Sorrick. Sor-rick. Included in the fine program pro-gram will be selections by the Cougar quartet, brought to the banquet by the Provo delegation. More than 300 Lions are expected ex-pected to attend, according to Mr. Hatch. Mr. Sorrick arrives in Salt Lake City Wednesday at 9:55 a. m. over the Union Pacific. A full schedule of scenic tours, honorary organ recitals and luncheon has been arranged tor him during his short stay. Mr. Sorrick who was elected to his high post at the international convention in Cuba, is president and general manager of Oxidermo Products, Ins. a paint manufacturing manufac-turing firm. He is a member of the Jackson, Michigan, Lions club and also a Mason. He has been active in Lions club work since 1921, and has held all the district and national offices leading to the president's post. REPUBLICANS TO HONOR LINCOLN Two hundred Utah county Republicans Re-publicans representing all the county precincts are expected to attend the Lincoln day banquet on February 12 under the auspices of the Utah county Republican central committee, according to Ed. M. Rowe, general chairman. The speaker of the evening will be Albert E. Bowen, prominent Utah attorney and apostle of the L. D. S. church. J. Rulon Morgan, Utah county Republican chairman, will deliver the address of welcome when the guests assemble at 7:30 p. m. at Hotel Roberts. Mrs. T. L. Holman of Salt Lake City, Republican national na-tional committee woman will respond. re-spond. A soprano solo, "Blue Danube Waltz" and other selections will be sung by Miss Nola Woodland, accompanied at the piano by Dr. Florence Jepperson Madsen of B. Y. U. Other musical selections will be trumpet solos, "Napoli," "The War Song,' 'and "Soldier's Dream" by John Dunn of Logan, accompanied accom-panied by Miss Anna Beth Smith. The assembled group will sing "America." Tliis Day . . . BORN Girl, to Eldwin and Murran Lockhart Boren, Saturday. Girl, to Ray and lone Hickman Borget, Saturday. Boy, to Ray S. and Venace Merrill Mer-rill of Pleasant Grove, Saturday, in Provo. Boy, to Alma and Ruth Carter Ferre, Feb. 6. Cottonwood ma-turnity ma-turnity hospital, Salt Lake. Boy, to Dr, Claude, and Nita Wakefield Eggertsen of Ann Arbor, Ar-bor, Mich., formerly of Provo, Saturday. LICENSED TO MARRY Samuel Otis Pyne, 26. Orem, and Vivian Tucker, 21, Fairview. LAilDOI! HITS AID BILL AS 'GUESS' POLICY Denounces Roosevelt's Attempt To Gag Sen. Wheeler Bv WILLIAM II. LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U.R) Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nom inee, today denounced the administration's all-out Brit ish aid bill as a "guess and be damned policy" under which .congress would abdi cate and give President Roosevelt unlimited powers to police the world by force, using all U. S resources and man power. Charging that President Roose velt had made a "dastardly" attempt at-tempt to gag Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D.. Mont., leader of the bill's opposition, Landon told the senate foreign relations commit tee that congress should keep control of the aid we send Eng land." Advocates Gift He advocated U. S. gifts of bil lions of dollars to help Britain's war effort, but said this nation's primary need now Is: Deliberation in congress and speed in factories." The former Kansas governor, a former supporter of Mr. Roose velt's foreign policy who reportedly report-edly turned down a post in the president's cabinet in 1940, said the November election results were not a mandate for unlimited aid to Britain nor unlimited powers pow-ers to the president. If it is necessary if it is es sential to our security that Eng land wins this war then let's stop fooling ( around with this lease-lend bill," Landon said. "If we intend to tell England the Yanks are coming, the. sooner we let England know it, the better bet-ter we can co-ordinate our activities activi-ties with theirs. "If the Yanks are not coming, the English are entitled to know that. ' ""If an' Engtfsir "vie tory" 13 '-Tiot essential to our security, then the only fair and decent thing to dd is to eay to Britain we will help you with money and materials only, and it is your job of get them. A simple appropriation is all that is needed, if that is our only purpose. And it would be agreed to, practically unanimously." unanimous-ly." Asserting it was up to Mr. Roosevelt's supporters to adjourn politics. Landon charged an "or ganized attempt" to suppress pub-( pub-( Continued on Page Two) British Warning Sent to Bulgaria LONDON, Feb. 8 (U.P) Great Britain, it was understood tonight, to-night, has made clear to Sofia the "unhappy consequences" which would result from any movement of German troops into Bulgaria. SOFIA, Feb. 8 U.R The British have given Bulgaria a categorical warning that their communication communica-tion lines will be bombed if German Ger-man troops are allowed to set foot on Bulgarian soil, it was reported in authoritative quarters tonight. The British warning, it. was indicated, in-dicated, was couched in stiff terms. It was said to have asserted that the instant Britains hears words of German troop movements move-ments into Bulgaria British bombers bomb-ers will take off to attack communications com-munications lines in Bulgaria. 4-Day Farm, Home and Youth Conference Opens On Tuesday Several hundred Utah county men and women are expected to attend the four-day conference on farm, home and youth problems here Tuesday through Friday, according ac-cording to Lee R. Taylor of Pay-son, Pay-son, general chairman. The conference will be held in the First ward chapel except for the evening session on February 13, which will be held in the Provo high school" auditorium. The conference will open Tuesday Tues-day at 10 a. m. with an address on "The Conference Ahead: What Is It All About?" ty Alva H. Benton, senior social scientist, division di-vision of program study and dis-cusion, dis-cusion, bureau of agricultural economics, eco-nomics, U. S. department of agriculture. agri-culture. At 10:3Q will be a talk by Howard How-ard A. Preston, dean of the college col-lege of economics and business at University of Washington, on "General Social and Economic Background of the Present Situation." Sit-uation." From 11:30 to 12:30 will be a group discussion. Br. Lowry Nelson, former dean of "applied science at Brigham Young university, and present Ape iniouise Lemdl - Lease Bill By 2 ,60 - Administration Scores Victory As British Aid Bill Is Sent iting Amendments Defeateed WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 8 (U.R) The house late today to-day passed and sent to the senate the British-aid bill in a form complying with administration wishes. The vote was 260 for and 165 against. The final vote climaxed a week of bitter debate, during which the Democratic leadership fought off all attempts of Republicans to write into the measure any major alterations. The administration won the major house test on the bill when it beat down an attempt to limit total expenditures to $7,- 000.000,000 The house earlier defeated a Republican Re-publican amendment to limit the measure to $2,000,000,000 in cred its to Britain for arms purchases in this country. The vote wa3 177 to 120. The amendment would have lim ited the extension of credits solely sole-ly to Britain and asked for "collateral "col-lateral security if available." Progress on the bill was compara tively slow, but Democratic lead ers still expected to be able to pass it without going into a long night session. The house revised the British- aid bill to perfect an amendment limiting to $1,300,000,000 the value of "on hand or on order" U. S. army or navy equipment which President Roosevelt could send abroad under the measure. The amendment was changed to specify an exact 51,300,000,000 limit on such transfers in con trast to the original wording which fixed the amount at 10 per cent of the defense appropriations for the current fiscal year which totaled about $13,000,000,000. The fixing of a precise limit was proposed by the Democratic leadership and was adopted by voice vote following a long par liamentary tangle. The limit applies only to pres ent stocks of army, navy or marine ma-rine corps equipment, including that which has been contracted for during -the-current fiscal year. It does not limit in any way the future appropriations which may be made directly under the Brit ish-aid bill, or to equipment to be acquired by the U. S. armed forces under the $10,811,000,000 appropriations sought by Mr. Roosevelt for the next fiscal year. WASHINGTON. "Feb. 8 (U.D The senate foreign relations com mittee voted today to give opponents oppon-ents of the British-aid bill an extra day of hearings. The committee agreed to allow opponents of the bill one more day, Monday; to call witnesses of 1 hpir num fhrw-isaincr Tt Tlt nff until Tuesday the appearance of Wendell L. wulkie and James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, uni-versity, in favor of the bill. They will ""be the final witnesses. The committee voted down, 10 to 5, an opposition request to continue hearings indefinitely so a large number of additional witnesses wit-nesses could be called to testify against the bill. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., presented a list of 20 possible witnesses wit-nesses for the opposition, including includ-ing New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and former CIO President John L. Lewis. He said his group sought an unlimited unlim-ited extension of the committee hearings, which until today had been scheduled to close Monday. MOYNE IS NAMED COLONIAL SECRET ART LONDON, Feb. 8 (U) Lord Moyne, 60, former Eton oarsman and World war hero, was named colonial secretary today to succeed suc-ceed Lord Lloyd, who died Wednesday. Wed-nesday. professor of rural sociology at University of Minnesota, will speak on "Present Social and Economic Relationship of Agriculture Agri-culture and Industry" at 2 p. m. Gro'up uiscussion will follow at 3 p. m. There will' be no evening session Tuesday. Outstanding speakers will appear ap-pear at sessions Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, some of them including Arthur Gaeth, professor of political science at B. Y. U.; E. O. Sisson, professor emeritus at ReedTJollege in Oregon; Ore-gon; William Peterson, U. S. A. C. extension service directors; Kenneth Ken-neth Perry, Greeley State college; Mrs. Lucille W. Woolf, Salt Lake City; and others. The conference is sponsored by the Provo junior chamber of commerce com-merce and the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college extension service of Utah county. Speakers are being be-ing brought here by the bureau of agricultural economics, U. S. D. A., cooperating with the Utah county planning board, Farm Security Se-curity Administration, B. Y. U. extension division, and Provo Youth council. roves 165 Vote to the Senate; Lim MEDITERRANEAN VAR REACHES TURNING POINT Bv HARRISON SALISBUBRY United Press Correspondent The war in the Mediterranean reached a turning point today where sudden new moves by Britain Brit-ain or Germany seemed likely, possibly conditioned by developments develop-ments at Vichy. The British, victors at Benghazi Beng-hazi and conquerors of all Eastern Libya, faced a major decision on strategy. The question was whether to press on to Tripoli, attempting to destroy the remnant of Italian strength in North Africa and make contact with Gen. Maxime Weygand's French army in Tunis ia, or quickly shift the bulk of the imperial army of the Nile to new fronts. Answer At Vichy ! - Germany faced a strategic question of equal importance; ft was whether to make a last minute min-ute attempt to aid the Italians in North Africa, possibly by a move into Tunisia, or to bring pressure on the British further east, in "the Balkans. There was reason to believe the answer to both strategic questions ques-tions might be found at Vichy. Vichy was enmeshed in critical negotiations betw e e n Marshal Henri Philippe Retain and Pierre Laval, ousted vice .premier and Berlin's favorite among French statesmen. Admiral Francois Darlan returned re-turned to Vichy with Laval's latest lat-est ultimatum on returning to the government. It was said to be unchanged from his previous demands. Laval was said to continue con-tinue to insist that he be made premier with a cabinet of his j wn choosing, responsible only to a national assembly of his personal per-sonal selection. He continued, it was said, to demand full powers in the sphere of foreign affairs (Continued on Page Two) LAVAL DECLINES PETAIN'S OFFER VICHY, Feb. 8 (V.V.) Marshal Henri Philippe Petain announced tonight that he had invited Pierre Laval to re-enter the Vichy government gov-ernment as a minister of etate but that Laval had declined his offer. Petain said he had asked Laval to assume a post as member of a proposed "directing committee," of the government. However Laval, it was learned, declined, to come back to Vichy except as Premier and with a cabinet of his own choice. BERLIN, Feb. 8 (U.D The official of-ficial DNB news agency reported tonight that Pierre Etienne Flan-din, Flan-din, Vichy foreign minister, has resigned. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUELLE? "New York dailies poke fun at our village papers, but I can't see where the death of a gangster 1 more Important news than the death of John Smith's cow." |