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Show The Weather UTAH: Fair tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature. Max. temp., Friday 81 'Mill. temp., Friday 47 ?.:ajc tmp, Saturday 86 T.'ln. temp., Saturday 43 tfriM tai County By ratronliing Horn Store o4 BohIucm Houses VOL. 18, NO. 45 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1941 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TKLEURAPH NEWS 6ERVICK PRICE FIVE CENTS DESK CHAT BY TIIK KDITOIi Just five years ago, with the ragged tribesmen beaten and scattered by aerial bomb and tank and "Emperor" Haile Selassie in flight, Mussolini Mus-solini thumped on his chest and shouted "this simple, irrevocable, ir-revocable, definite phrase Ethiopia is Italian- It is Italian Ital-ian in fact because it is occupied oc-cupied by our victorious armies . " , Today, Haile Selassie is back in his capital, Addis Ababa. It is the Italians who are fugitives. What Mussolini Musso-lini called "irrevocable" is already al-ready revoked ; "forever" was five years. Hitler proclaims that the Third Reich will last 1000 years. Query: If Mussolini's "forever" proved to be worth five vears. what will you give for Hitler's thousand years? oOo Here and There The quickest way for a doctor to lose a patient is to tell her it was only a minor operation . . . the best guide book to consult while touring. is the pocketbook . Germany Ger-many passed up its customary custom-ary May Day celebration this year. Not a bad idea to wait until you're positive they have something to celebrate . . . National Cotton Week is May 16 to 24. We hope to see cotton batten a thousand! - . . women who roast others are not always good cooks . . a success makes his wife a fur coat out of the wolf at the door. oOo Today's Quote "They're rlamned hungry over there." Edward Lebzeltern, officer of a U. S. relief ship, just back from France. MERRY GO-ROUND A Dally Picture of What'i Going On in National Affair JiT DREW PEARSOJ sad ROBERT S. ALLEN . U. S. Strategists Fear Hitler Will Balk Patrol by Seizing Ireland; Report Gliders Being Be-ing Designed To Land Troops, Dominate Ship Lane ; Irish Still Fear England, Eng-land, Are Squeezed by Wartime War-time Economic Moves; U. " S. Delays War Aid 'Till Eire Co-operates to Resist Nazi Invasion. WASHINGTON State and war department officials are not talking about it, but one of their biggest worries in connection with the new Atlantic patrol system is that Germany will seize Ireland. This is the best immediate means by which the Nazis can nullify Rodsevelt's plan for making mak-ing sure that vital lease-lend supplies sup-plies get to British sM rather than to the bottom of the ocean. A neutral or friendly Eire is essential for the success of the patrol plan and even of convoys. For should Germany seize Ireland. Nazi airplanes and submarines would have bases extending much farther west into the Atlantic; thus creating a suicide zone in the dirct path of incoming supply sup-ply vessels. Already Germany. operating from France and Belgium, has closed Britain's channel ports, forced the re-routing of all British shipping to the north of Ireland. So if Hitler should establish bases in Eire he could come closerthan ever to accomplishing hi3 goal of starving out the United Kingdom. This is why the BritLsh have frantically fran-tically asked the state department depart-ment to appeal for Irish co-operation. ., " I GLIDER PLANES TO I IRELAND . U. S. intelligence reports from Germany tell of a new type of . Continued on Page 3 Sec. 2 MERCURY CLIMBING Midsummer temperatures prevailed pre-vailed Saturday as the mercury reached a maximum of 86 degrees in Provo. The day was easily the hottest of the year. SLAYER OF 3 UNITED BY POSSE, 1000 Victim's Fellow Workers Work-ers Volunteer In Hunt For Body SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., May 10 (U.R) A posse of 1,-000 1,-000 railroad men was organized organ-ized today to search for the body of Ray Wells, feared to have been murdered, after the slaying of Ms wife and another young1 woman, by his hunchbacked brother, Alfred. The passe was being- formed of Ray's fellow workmen in the Santa Fe railroad shops here. They are aroused over the murders and hoped they might aid in .the search for the slayer but feared it was impossible since the hunt for the wizened ex-convict has swung to Nevada. Alfred shot Mrs. Jean Wells and Rose Destree, 17, then apparently abducted his brother when Flay left work at the Santa Fe shops Wednesday night. Ray has not been seen since. Alfred's auto was found in Las Vegas, Nev., so authorities believed he killed Ray and disposed of his body somewhere some-where along the route to Nevada. Bulletins posted throughout the railway shops called for 1,000 workmen to assemble in North San Bernardino at 7 a. m. tomorrow tomor-row with lunches and flasks of water. An auto load of possemen will be assigned to each half-mile of the highway leading from the city limits. They will beat the brush on each side for a half mile out from the road. Possemen were ordered to seach under culverts cul-verts and in brush piles and under any newly-laid heaps of rock. Thus a one-mile "wide strip of the countryside will be. covered, leading along the highway up through Cajon Pass, scene of the women's murders, and out into the Mojave desert, if necessary. Family of Five Durned to Death PITTSBURGH, May 10 U.P A family of five persons was burned to death today in a fire whirh trannpfl them in their rpt- and and third floor rooms. ThA rtearr wero Mr. Anna Th 33, her husband, John, 41, and their children John Jr., 16; Helen, 15. and Agnes, 6. The only entrance to the Laba home was over rear porch steps to the second floor. Neighbors said that rubbish had been stacked stack-ed beneath the porch in the rear. They thought the fire may have been caused by spontaneous combustion. com-bustion. Smelter Running At Top Capacity SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 (U.P B. L. Sackett, superintendent of the Tooele smelter of the Inter national Smelting and Refining company, disclosed today that the smelter was now operating at almost al-most top capacity and that this year's payroll, at the present rate, would be only slightly under the peak of 1929. ; 'Y' Band Famed throughout the inter-mountain inter-mountain west is the Brigham Young university concert band, which will be presented by the Provo chamber of commerce Mon day at 8 p. m. in the Provo tabernacle taber-nacle under the direction of Professor Pro-fessor Robert Sauer, of the music department. Assisting the band will be the Provo high school mixed chorus, directed by Ernest Paxman, and J. J. Keeler, university uni-versity organist. This annual concert, appropriate appropri-ate because of national Music week observance, will consist of familiar classical music from the pens of such masters as Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Rossini, Ros-sini, and Humperdinck. The program reaches musical heights with the arrangement of "The Lost Chord" by Sullivan, in which the Provo chorus and the band will be accompanied by Mr. Keeler. Another feature presented present-ed by the band will be a solo by Eugene Evans of Bountiful, saxophonist, saxo-phonist, who has received first ratings and awards in several state and regimental contests. Other outstanding members of the band are Max Dalby of Salt (Continued on Page Two) Sought in Killing J 1. J Alfred Wells, 31. paroled Los Angeles robber, object of intense search' alter police discovered the body of hii sister-in-law. Mrs. Jean Wells, shot dead near San Bernardino, Caul Hester Violet Wells, 13 months, was found clinging to her mother, while Rose Destree, a friend, probablj mortally wounded, crawled severa. hundred yards from the scene of the shooting to attract help. Provo to De Host To Convention of Municipal League Provo city will be host to two major conventions within a two-week two-week period late this summer. The annual Utah State Municipal Munici-pal league convention will be held here August 14, 15 and 16, while the annual convention of the Utah-Idaho district of Kiwanis International will be held on August 4, 5, and 6. Dates for the Municipal league confab were fixed at a meeting of the board of directors here Friday Fri-day afternoon. Theme of the convention con-vention will be national defense. Presiding at the meeting was John Matheson, Salt Lake City commissioner, and president of the league. General convention sessions wift be held in the Provo First ward 'hall. Department meetings will include in-clude park beautification, zoning, traffic safety, municipal power, finance and waterworks. O'Connell To Spsak in Provo "Our Plan for Plenty" will be topic of an address to be given by Ex-Congressman Jerry O'Connell ' of Montana Monday . at 8 p. m. in the south courtroom of the city 1 and county building under the aus- pices of the International Work ers Order. The public is invited. Mr. O'Connell will tell "why we -are a nation - of poor people while at the same time we are the richest country in the world," according ac-cording to his sponsors. Mr. O'Connell Is addressing public pub-lic meetings in a dozen states as part of the International Workers Order's social security crusade which proposes passage of federal feder-al legislation to establish a $1200 annual minimum family income by means of government grants and a vast public works program. Tick Fever Fatal To Carbon Miner MARTIN. Utah, May 10 (U.R) Robert Stalker Jr., 46, Carbon county coal miner, died late yes terday of tick fever, incurred when he was bitten by a tick a few weeks ago. to Present Concert in Tabernacle, Monday Night Provo, Sharon Seminaries To Present Commencement Exercises Here Tonight Provo, Utah Stakes Conduct Evening Exercises At Tabernacle Carrying out the theme, "Highlights in Mormonism," the nineteenth annual commencement com-mencement program of the Provo seminary will be held tonight- at 8 o'clock in the stake tabernacle, with the public invited. Antone K. Romney. seminary teacher, will present the graduating gradu-ating class of .112 students, and President Charles E. Rowan of Provo L. D. S. stake will award the diplomas after responding briefly. The body of the program will be in three parts. The first part Picture on Page Two will be on revelations, with the high school chorus singing "Joseph "Jo-seph Smith's First Prayer," and discussions being given by Roberta Rob-erta Dean, Nadine Farr, Don S. Clark, Elaine Scott and Clinton Oaks. .The second part will be on organization. or-ganization. The chorus will sing "How Firm a Foundation," and discussions will be given by Mar-rial Mar-rial Clark, Ellsworth Snow and Doressa Paxman. Earl Wallace, Verna Jorgen-son, Jorgen-son, A theen Knudsen, Keith Hawkins, Haw-kins, and Elaine Nielsen will give discussions in the third part of the program which will be on accomplishments. The chorus will sing "Proud, Yes of Our Home in the Mountains." Walter Gadd will be chairman of the program. Carol Keele will accompanist for the chorus, which will be directed by Ernest Paxman. Invocation will be offered by Howard Lewis and benediction by J. Donald Knudsen. Mr. Romney, Ernest Frandsen, and Milton H. Knudsen are the seminary instructors. SEIZED SHIPS TO BE FIXED WASHINGTON, May 10 i;.P) Maritime commission officials have ordered utmost speed in repairing re-pairing seized Italian and German cargo vessels for American or British use to offset losses in the battle of the Atlantic, it was learned today. - Maritime officials disclosed that in some cases shipyards were operating oper-ating three shifts a day on the repair of sabotage and other damage. dam-age. All the work involving 25 Italian and two German ships, is on at least a two-shift basis, it was said. The new speed-up order . was indicative of increased adminis tration determination to expand American shipping aid to Britain. It was disclosed that the 25 oil tankers recently ordered diverted di-verted to British service in this hemisphere will be actually operating oper-ating in that service by the end of next week. The situation in Iraq, menacing British oil supplies in the Near East, was said to have made Britain's Brit-ain's need for oil from this hemisphere hem-isphere more acute than ever. The tankers will ply from Latin American Amer-ican oil centers to North American Ameri-can ports, where the cargoes will be transferred to British tankers. i i 4 Sharon Stake Group to Stage Pageant Tonight At College Hall Eighteenth annual commencement com-mencement services for the Sharon stake seminary 'will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at Brigham Young university College hall in Provo in the form of a pageant, "Shall America Stand?" One hundred seventy-two grad uates of the seminary will receive diplomas at the progTm, to which the public is invited. The dramatic pageant was written and is directed by J. Clayton Watts assisted by Milton 11. Knudsen of the Sharon seminary sem-inary faculty. Titles of the three parts of the pageant are, "The Voice of the Ages," "Shadows of the Past." and "Promise and Possibility." Pos-sibility." The chorus is directed by E. B. Terry and the orchestra by W. M. Vernon, both of the Lincoln high school music department. Principal characters are Dorothy Dor-othy Stratton, Weston Taylor, Florence Bone, Dee Anderson, La-Verne La-Verne dinger. Donna Stubbs, Steve Bunnell, Cloward Penrod, Lewi3 Smith, Ruth Nelson. Ralph Peterson, LeRoy Nelson, Howard Gordon and Katsumi Yano. The thesis that God rules the affairs of men and nations, and that assurance of the continued existence of a nation depends upon its personal and social righteousness righteous-ness is developed in the pageant. The graduating class , will be presented by Principal Victor C. Anderson, and the diplomas will be awarded by A. V. Watkins, Sharon stake president. . Invocation will be offered by Verl Madscn and benediction by Ilene Harward. Icnroid 2c:i! .U5 Detail Grocer D. G. Henriod was elected president pres-ident of the Trovo Retail Grocers' Groc-ers' association at a banquet Thursday nght at Haase cafe. He succeeds Wilford Duke. Other officers elected were Alex Peay, vice president; Murray Mur-ray Peay, secretary-treasurer; Jack Smeath, D. M. Innes, Arvel Morgan, Howard Storrs and John Booth, directors. - - R. H. Hayward is outgoing vice president, and Alex Peay is outgoing out-going secretary-treasurer, Ernest Hansen and Oliver Meservey are retiring directors, i Arch Madsen was master of ceremonies. J. J. Bowman, president presi-dent of the state association, and Sherman Lloyd, state secretary-manager, secretary-manager, . were present and spoke briefly. Sixty-four, store managers mana-gers and clerk were present. Old Timers' Club Honor Pres. Grant SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 IT.P Heber J. Grant, 84-year-old president of the L.D.S. church. was honored Saturday night at a banquet of the Old Timers' club of the Union Pacific Railroad, of which he has been a director for the last 20 years. Speakers , included J. Reuben Clark Jr., his first " counselor in the first presidency; President William M. Jeffers of Union Pacific, Pa-cific, and Gov. Herbert B. Maw. s tt'1 -.. ITAH STRIKES ItJ fJORTHl'JEST CLOSE MILLS Loggers, Sawmill Work- ers Strike lies Up Plants TACOMA, Wash-, May 10 (U.R) A strike of loggers and sawmill workers that closed an estimated 25 per cent of the camps and mills in western west-ern Washington, threatened today to spread throughout the Northwest. The International Woodworkers of America, (CIO) claimed 22,000 workmen in 50 mills and camps were on strike. Independent sources, however, said five mills, 20 .camps and 12,000 men were idle. The strike has been certified to the national defense mediation Ooard bv Secretary of Labor Frances Fran-ces Perkins on grounds its affects the supply of lumber for national defense work. Strike May Spread B. J. McCarthy, union secretary, secre-tary, said the strike might spread to southern Oregon, northern California, Cal-ifornia, northern Idaho, the Columbia Co-lumbia river district - and the Grays Harbor, Wash., district, fhere the CIO holds contracts. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 U.K) A strike of AFL cannery work ers seeking higher wages today shut down 65 northern and cen tral California canneries affili ated with the California Processors Process-ors & Growers, Inc. Only 15 plants actually are operating now, but the others are preparing for the fruit crop harvest har-vest which reaches its peak in mid-June. Between 6000 and 8000 workers answered the strike call late yesterday yes-terday and immediately began picketing plants in Oakland, San Leandro, Emeryville, San Jose, Havward, Stockton. Sacramento, Modesto and Brentwood,- where the asparagus, tomatoes and ppinach crops are being packed. . At peak season. tsu.ouu .worKers are employed in the struck canneries. can-neries. . , SAN FRANCISCO. May 10 i:.P.) Eleven San Francisco shipbuilding ship-building firms with defense contracts con-tracts totaling more than $500.-000,000 $500.-000,000 were struck today, by AFL and CIO machinists demanding higher, wages. The walkout was called despite protests it would violate a "no strike, no lockout" agreement signed In Seattle last month by we-st coast shipbuilders and the bay cities (AFL) metal trades council. The San Francisco and Seattle AFX. machinists locals did not approve the agreement, and the CIO was not represented in the stabilization conference at which it was formulated. E. F. Dillon business manager of the AFL union, said picket lines would be established Monday. Mon-day. . Tlxis Day . . . BORN Boy, to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Maag, Saturday, American Fork hospital. hos-pital. Girl to Arthur E. and Thelma Johnson Gibson, Saturday, Utah Valley hospital. Boy, to Erin and Edna Monson Hopkinson Silva of Los Angeles, Calif. Boy, to Quentin and Normt Bown Utley, Thursday. 4 - V '- ! I i i Royal Aw Force . Renews Bombing 1 m British Pound German Targets from Norway Nor-way to Berlin; Fight Off Italian Air 'Attack in Mediterranean Sea BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor The Royal Air Force hammered Nazi targets from Norway Nor-way to Berlin, the Rhineland industries and the French coast today and the Royal Navy reported it had fought off an Italian air attack in the Mediterranean, but Great Britain Brit-ain admitted shipping losses of almost 500,000 tons a month during the most intensive phase "of the battle of the Atlantic. ' ' '. . The London admiralty also reported that the Royal Navy on Thursday morning at - tacked the big axis base at Benghazi, Beng-hazi, on the coast of Libya, scor ing hits on shipping in the harbor har-bor and intercepting two other enemy ships including one ammunition am-munition vessel, which were destroyed. de-stroyed. Damage Denied , A communique by the admir alty at London gave the British version of what the Rome high command had described as a successful suc-cessful attack by Italian torpedo-carrying torpedo-carrying planes which hit six British Brit-ish warships and three merchantmen merchant-men in a Mediterranean convoy, in addition to shooting down 13 British planes. The British communique said that repeated attacks by the Italian Ital-ian craft had failed tc do any damage to the British convoy and that seven fascist planes were shot down, while five others were severly damaged The British reported one of their own fighters missing and another shot down, with, the crew cafe. Attacks Acknowledged The continued heavy Royal Air Force attacks, aided Friday night by both Polish and Dutch pilots, were acknowledged by the nazLj, who reported that 129 were dead or missing in Hamburg and that there were casualties and destruction destruc-tion in the twin cities of Mannheim Mann-heim and Ludwigshaven on the Rhine-.-' ' -j The British pilots reported they had set the great Ludwigshaven Ludwig-shaven chemical factory ablaze, and one pilot said, he counted 27 firea, most of them destroying factories, in the district. The progress of the battle of . (Continued on Page Two) 25CCCD0YS HURT CRASH KANAB, Utah, May 10 (CP)'. Twenty-fice CCC youths were injured, in-jured, two critically, when a truck returning them to the Pike Springs, Ariz., CCC camn. today plunged from a desert highway io mues southwest of here and overturned. - ,-" Fourteen of the injured were brought here after the accident, which occurred as the truck was turning from the highway two miles west of the Pike Springs national monument. Medical facilities of this southern south-ern Utah border town were overtaxed over-taxed and doctors and nurses from nearby Utah and Arizon communities communi-ties responded to a plea for help in treating the injured. The youths were returning to camp after attending a Friday night dance here. Doctors said most were from Texas, but no names were immediately available. avail-able. ' Child on Tricycl IHIsd by Truck MURRAY, Utah. May 10 (U.F Raymond Holmberg, 3, was killed late yesterday when he drove hi? tricycle into the path of a truck that was passing in front of his home. Officers absolved the driver of he truck, Wavne Godfrey, 25. Murray, from blame. The boy's death raised Utah's 1941 traffic toll to 49. only two less than on May 10, 1940. HOOVER TO SPEAK NEW YORK, May 10 0J.P Former President Herbert Hoover Hoov-er will make a "statement to the people of the United States upon the immediate relations of the United States to this war," his office said today, in a speech over the Red network of the National Broadcasting company at 10:30 p. m., (EDT) Sunday night. FIRE DAMAGES GARAGE Fire damaged a double garage belonging- to A. G. Harris, 41 West Fifth North, Saturday at 7 "p. m., causing an estimated loss of , $350, according to fire department depart-ment report. The unhappy combination com-bination of a . boy and a match was the cause of the tlaze. On. Nasi S - ILqCcdC Tap BaIIIIe2nimc LONDON Radio Berlin went off the air way ahead of scheduled time tonight, indicating British planes were attacking Germany in force for the third night in, a row. LONDON Japan by a secret clause in its pact with Germany and Italy, is left free to determine for itself whether it will enter the war if Germany and Italy become involved in war with the United States, an excellently informed in-formed non-British diplomatic source said today. VICHY If the United States tries to occupy Dakar it must uw force and France will resist, Fer-nand Fer-nand de Brlnon, French government govern-ment representative in Paris, told American newspaper correspondents. correspond-ents. The Paris press displayed the statement today under big headline. : BERLIN The Diplomat ic-Po -litical Korrespondez, foreign office of-fice organ, said today that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull wm following a Wnston Churchill Church-ill policy in drawing other nations na-tions into war. LONDON Queen Wilhelmina. in broadcasts commemorating the first anniversary of the German invasion of the Netherlands, today urged her subjects to stand firm, for final victory. In which she expressed complete confidence. ' WASHINGTON The Be'lgian embassy said, today, on the first anniversary of German invasion of that country, that Belgians are still fighting Germany from without with-out and resisting by sabotage from within. NAIROBI. Kenya Advances by British forces in . Ethiopian territory terri-tory south of Addis Ababa and gains by empire forces marching on Italians entrenched on Mt. AJaji, northern Ethiopia, were reported in a South African headquarters head-quarters communique today. BERLIN Friedrich Minoux, internationally in-ternationally known German Industrialist, In-dustrialist, recently was arrested in Berlin and lodged in Moabit jail for investigation, it was learned today. It was not learned why Minoux was arrested, but reliable quarters said it was not for. political reasons. ISTANBUL Rumania's newest pa-sttenger ships, the Bessarabia and Transylvania, built in Denmark Den-mark and delivered just before the war, have been converted into armed cruisers mounting 150 mm. guns, it was disclosed today ROME King Victor Emmanuel Emman-uel has flown to Albania to tour Italo-Greek battlefields, it was announced today. The king landed land-ed at Tirana, capital of Albania. LONDON May 10 U.P An air alarm sounded in London tonight. Anti-aircraft guns opened up almost al-most immediately, and the sound of a raiding plane was audible over the city. Naval Aviation Cadets Wanted The naval aviation cadet selection selec-tion board will visit Salt Lake City May 12. 13 and 17 to interview inter-view and examine applicants for enlistment for naval aviation flight training, making its head quarters at the University of Utah on the 12th and 13th and at the U. S. navy recruiting office of-fice on the 17th. The board will be composed of LU E. H. Walter, Lt. Commander C. C. Troensegaard, a chief yeoman yeo-man and a chief pharmacist mate. MERCHANT DIES BOISE, Ida.. May 10 i:.P Funeral services will be held Mon-rfnv Mon-rfnv for Leo F. Falk. 68. promin ent Idaho mercantile executive, who died last night. |