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Show - j SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1943 PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY -HERALD, r s : t: 1! m ft i - 4 Z I -'. '? ; m i .- . if Curtin Rises 'Man of Destiny" in Pacific CrisisPremier Fills Role of Australia's ' By NEA Service Though the United States is united with Australia in a warfor-survival in the Pacific few Americans have more than the barest headline acquaintance ac-quaintance with the mild-mannered, mild-mannered, little -. publicized chief executive of that sprawling, spraw-ling, continental Commonwealth. Common-wealth. Presented herewith is Prime Minister John Curtin "in profile." "Mr. Winston Roosevelt Curtin" that's the tag an oratorical admirer ad-mirer pinned on the Prime Minister Min-ister of Australia a few months ago. The tag didn't stick. There simply aren't enough traits in common between .plain, plain-spoken plain-spoken "Jack" Curtins ex-print-ter'sdevil, ex-potter's hand, ex-. ex-. union henchman and the two smooth political aristocrats of Downing Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. But the idea behind the com- . posite name did stick, after a fashion. The idea was that the Commonwealth's slight, professorial-appearing chief executive must now be recognized as a world figure and as a surpising- . ly inspired and inspiring wartime leader. Ami he doesn't need to .be labeled "another Churchill" or "another FDR." He ran stind on his own legs. He always has. HoWever, few of his country- ; men up to a year ago saw Jack Curtin as other than an honest and level-headed labor chieftain, a wheel-horse politician, a reticent reti-cent man notable more for his party loyalities than for qualities of real leadership. So he astnrin ished friends and critics alike When he moved dynamically and assuredly into his stern role as Australia's Man of Destiny. No Suicide Squads "The fall of Singapore is Australia's Aus-tralia's Dunkirk," he solemnly warned his countrymen after that Malayan disaster. "Our honeymoon honey-moon is finished: it is now work or fight and work or fight as we have never worked or fought before." be-fore." And to work in the P. M.'s ornate office went Jack Curtin himself in his shirt-sleeves, usually; us-ually; seven days a week, and al-riost al-riost all the waking hours of each 'day. No time ,now, for slow walks through Canberra's broad, treo-frihged treo-frihged boulevards, indulging in political chit-chat with his c'or-nies. c'or-nies. Little time to spend at 'home with his wife and two children. chil-dren. .Tut wnrif, nnd mor work. Fjrst, he put the critics- for-criticism's-sake in their places. "I am not going to make our fighting men mere suicide squads to satisfy talkative arm-chair strategists," he sharply informed political opponents who were "yelling for offensives when they knew offensives were bein?: undertaken." un-dertaken." And "I shall say nothing of our war plans. The en-' emy already knows too much, due to long years of loose talking and thinking and irresponsible criticism." Clicks With MacArthur But Australians listen whenever when-ever lifetime-civilian Jack Curtin does speak militarily. They re-cal re-cal that' for many years he has demanded strong home defense as being the most effective way in which Australia could contribute contrib-ute to the. war effort of the whole Emnire. And with a vision remarkable re-markable even in 1937, he gam-j bled his party's chances in the! national election by sponsoring a program calling for 10,000 war Could Henry VIII Have Had Stomach Ulcer Pains? 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SEilQllEY'S GIFT SHOP : 159 WEST CENTER ' V ' ' Open Evenings' . to National Fame Though the United States is united with Australia in a war-for-survival in the Pacific, few Americans have more than the barest headline acquaintance with the mild-mannered, little-publicized chief executive of that sprawling, continental Commonwealth. Presented herewith is Prime Minister John Curtin,, "in profile." , A " iff fP), ,.. vt f ' j f &::: f : - 'A jy . I , -J iii This unconventional study of Australia's Prime -Minister, "Mr. Winston Win-ston Roosevelt Curtin," was made in Canberra, ,on a day when the temperature was as hot as the Pacific war- situation. 0 planes instead of warships for the Commonwealth. He apparently "works well" with General MacArthur. Curtin always has insisted sometimes. in language that may have sounded sound-ed blunt to military ears in London's Lon-don's Whitehall that Australia must have a full say in molding the Pacific strategies of the democracies: de-mocracies: "No nation can afford to submerge the right of speaking for itself because of another nation's na-tion's assumed omniscience." Truly a Little Man The long-time political success of "Mr. Winston Flooseevelt Cur tin" has been due in part( and this also holds true for his nick-namesakes nick-namesakes in the White House and at No. 10 Dowing) to his having become stereotyped in the public's mind as a broad-visioned champion of the Little Man. But unlike Roosevelt and Churchill, with their aristocratic backgrounds, back-grounds, Jack Curtin WAS a Little Lit-tle Man. Born 57 years ago in Victoria, the son of a politician, he quit school at 12 to be a printer's devil. Then he was a potter's apprentice. Then he was a canner. Then, in 1911, he got to be secretary of a timber workers' work-ers' union and his lifetime political-labor career had begun. With printer's ink already in his veins, he became editor of a western Australian labor weekly in 1917. He won his way: to Parliament Par-liament in 1928, lost his! seat in the "depression 'election of 1931. regained it and clung to it from 1934 on. His Labor party came into dominance in October, 1941 and brought Curtin to the Prime Ministership. SENTENCE DELAYED Passing of sentence on Stanley McClellan, 19, of Provo, who previously had pleaded guilty to forgery in Fourth district court, Saturday was delayed by Judge Abe W. Turner for further study of the case with a view to possible pos-sible probation. McClellan was charged with raising the amount of a check from $2.79 to $10.79. Card. SPRINCVILLE Mrs. Chester Johnson of Richfield, Rich-field, Ida., is spending a few days with relatives and friends in Springville. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Strong left recently on a trip . to Mexico City. They went by train to Los Angeles, Calif., and planned to go by plane from there to Mexico City. They planned also to spend a short time in Central America before returning. Mark Peterson, son of Mrs. Mary Peterson, has just returned from an L. D. S. mission to California. Cali-fornia. He came home earlier than planned due to ill health. Mrs. Grover Clyde and daughter daugh-ter Jane of Milwaukee, Wis., is visiting her mother Mrs. Jennie Starr and other relatives and friends in Springville. The Missionary Society of the Community church entertained at their annual tea Thursday afternoon after-noon at the home of Mrs. L. J. Bullen. The feature of entertainment entertain-ment was a talk by Mrs. Edwin F. Irwin of Provo, who has served on a foreign mission. Mrs. Harry Cutshall of Spanish Fork was in charge of the program. A group of o!i friends enjoyed a party at the home of Mrs. Nell Condie Friday evening. Supper Sup-per was served at one long table which held an attractive arrangement arrange-ment of red carnations. In attendance at-tendance were, Mrs. Lois Clegg, Mrs. Gertrude Sumsion, Mrs. Melba Pennington, Mrs. Philda Finley, Mrs. Floss Phillips, Mrs. Catherine D. Wills, Mrs. Cleo Heavener, Mrs. Rea Straw, Mrs. Melinda Sumsion, Mrs. Ida Bird,, Mrs.- Ellen Anderson, Mrs. Nellie Anderson and Mrs. Alice Davis. Outstanding in every detail was the annual dinner dance enjoyed by the Boosters and Novelty Circle organizations Saturday evening at Keeleys. During the banquet, tosts were given by Wanda Hol-ley, Hol-ley, Blaine Johnson, Lois Hansen and Almah Miner. Veloy Singleton Single-ton entertained with vocal numbers num-bers as did Orpha Dee Bird. La-Rae La-Rae Thorpe gave a piano number. Mary Cameron was toaStmaster. and following the banquet all enjoyed en-joyed dancing. Mrs. Carrie Jolley left the past week to visit her husband, Ed Jolley, who is in the navy stationed sta-tioned in California. Mrs. Grace McKenzie and -Mrs. Hazel Roylance . went , to Layton Thursday to attend a party given for the latter's daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. Sperry, the former Norma Roylance, who was ' recently re-cently married. Mrs.. M. W. Bird was hostess to members of the Home Culture club at her home Friday afternoon. after-noon. The program was under direction di-rection of Mrs. Gwen Baxter and featured -talks by high school political science students on problems prob-lems of the day,' under, direction of Hugh Baxter. Mrs. Hyrum Waters has returned return-ed to her home here from Lbs Angeles, Calif., where she has spent the past two months with a daughter and other relatives. Mrs. Arvil Bird has spent the past two weeks - in Salt Lake City confined to the L. D. S. hospital. hos-pital. - -. Mrs. Ina B. Reynolds and little daughter have " gone- to Los Angeles,- Calif.vto join'Mr. Reynolds and make their home indefinitely. They , have been , visiting her par- ' ents, Mr. - and Mrs. " J. Emmett Bird. -.-.t . , r . - - .,. -1 'Lamar- Metcalf has returned to CONDITION OF GANDHI GRAVE POONA, Feb 20 (HE Mohandas Mohan-das K. Gandhi's condition has taken a turn for the worse at the halfway mark -of, his 21-day fast in proteat against . his internment, in-ternment, and now is grave, an official bulletin said tonight. The 73-year-old spiritual leader of millions of Indian nationalists was reported to be failing rapidly rapid-ly accentuating fear that he could not survive the self-imposed ordeal. At the same time concern mounted over the possible repercussions reper-cussions if he should die. His own privy councilor warned that in such an event the task" of reconciliation between Britain and India would be "extremely difficult." diffi-cult." Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru sounded sound-ed the warning at a non-party conference in New Delhi which adopted a resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Gandhi "in the interests inter-ests of the future of India and international good will." There were reports that the government of India might soon reply to the resolution. So far it has given no sign of yielding to increasing pressure to end Gandhi's six months' internment in the palace of the Agakhan. The condition of the shrunken little Nationalist leader was reported re-ported deteriorating steadily as he passed the half way mark of his 21-day fast protesting his internment. He had become so weak that the six doctors attending him urged friends and relatives not to visit him so that he could husband his waning strength. Ono visitor said he was '"only a little ball of bones and muscle," and had to be lifted in and out of one of the palace's great bath tubs for. his daily bath. Promotion Won By Springrville Sailor SPRINGVILLE Earl Niel son, son of Mr. and IMrs. J. C. Nielson, has been promoted to second class petty officer in the U. S. navy, and is stationed some where in the Pacific. He enlisted in the navy May 27, 1942, and received his rating at that time of third class petty of ficer, carpenter's mate. He received re-ceived his basic training at San Diego, Calif., and subsequently was transferred to San Francis co, Oakland and to the Hawaiian Islands. ' - He is a graduate of the local high school, and a former student of the B. Y. U., Provo. Drive For Hosiery At Spanish Foflt " m. - SPANISH FORK KiwaniS ladies of this community have added their contribution ., of silk and nylon hose to the great nOm- Los Angeles, Calif., following a few days visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Metcalf $nd other relatives and friends. Willis K. Johnson lias returned to his home here from the L. D; S. hospital, where he underwent a major operation. The Take-Off . , ': . . ::-:-: .w r.4 .. y.:.. :::-;. , os::-:.:.:..... .... -vsv.v5v.:-. i;-.'. -y.-, . .-. v.v-:-" -'' .:: ::: :?: : ; : s Into sky soar countless number Roache's Run sanctuary, THREE THINGS TO DO: BUY BONDS At the Post Office or Your Bank PLANT A VICTORY GARDEN in Your Back Yard or on a Vacant Lot -or Wherever It Will-Grow. CALL PROVO GREENHOUSE for Your Vegetable and Flower . . plants. PHONE- 80 rWHERE THE FLOWERS GROW P R 0 V O ' &R E E N H O USE D.U.P. Women At Red Cross Members from Camp No. 4-6, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, have been - meeting each Wednesday and Friday at the Red Cross cen ter to work on surgical dressings. inose assisting with the work last week were: Mrs. Lovina Johnson, captain; Mrs. Ellen Con- der, Mrs. Mary Demos, Mrs. Kate Van Wagenen, Mrs. Betsy Anderson, Ander-son, Mrs. Hazel Janson, Mrs. Eunice Rowley, Mrs. CJaudia Lewis, Mrs. Melva Perry, Mrs. Edith Booth, Mrs. Elsie Brock-bank, Brock-bank, Mrs. Delilah B. Adams, Mrs. Clara Taylor and Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson. Mothers, Wives of Service Men Guests SPANISH FORK The Beta Aglaian club entertained mothers and wives of service men Thurs day evening at the home of Mrs. F. R. Bellows, Mrs. Lawrence Tuckett presided and welcomed the guests. Mrs. Grant Evans led in singing of "America." Mrs Karl Dunn led the salute to the flag. The program was arranged by Mrs. Jack and Mrs. Scott Huff; it included two vocal num bers by Mrs. Dean Tuttle. Two humorous readings by Mrs. Grant Evans, a piano selection by Miss Mattie Bellows; a duet by Ora Mae Sorenson and Francis Measom; an original poem, was composed and read by Mrs. Gwen Huff. There were 45 club mem bers and guests present. Price Hike Set Ou Native Lumber As the first step toward increasing in-creasing production of native lumber to release graded lumber for war-essential purposes, the Rockyountain regional office of Price Administration has issued a temporary order setting . in creased specific prices on native lumber f.o.b. mills in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Iex Ico. Mark H. Greene, Utah state price officer for the O P A, said the prices which had been frozen at levels as low as $15 per thousand board feet were raised by the order to $28.50 for green rough native lumber, log run, and to $30.50 for air dried rough natice lumber, -log run. An additional charge of $3 per thousand board feet may be added add-ed to the- price if the lumber is surfaced, and on delivered sales to any buyer of native lumber, the manufacturer or producer may add his actual transportation transporta-tion costs incident to delivery, if the entire haul is ly truck but only the actual rail, freight cost if the haul is combined truck-rail haul. ber that are being gathered throughout the state in a salvage sal-vage drive conducted by the J. C. Penney company. The Kiwanis drive for hosiery is under the direction di-rection of Mrs. E. E. Knudsen and a good sized box of hosiery has been- collected and handed in. to be used in the war efforts. Hosiery will still be accepted at the local Penney store. of wildfowl after being fed at near Washington. D. C Aglaian Literary Conducts Session SPANISH FORK Mrs. Dean Jensen was hostess to .the Aglaian Literary-club at the home of Mrs. D. Clark Williams Thursday night. Vice-president Mrs. Taylor Johnson presided. .Mrs. Jess Walker directed ..community sing ing with Mrs. - Jensen - . at the piano; Mrs. Milton Nelson led the ladies in the salute to the flag; Mrs. D. Clark Wiliams read the club collect. Mrs. Florence Magle- by paid a tribute to Miss Louise Gardner, ,who was the honored guest of the club and presented her with a corsage of defence stamps. Miss Garner is the first Spanish Fork girl to join the ( .... .. armed forces, having recently en listed in .the WAVES:. Mrs. Curtis Oberhansley gave a . talk on "Social "So-cial Conduct" comparing certain customs from 1865 to the present time. Mrs. Wallace Gardner reviewed re-viewed the book, by Emily Post, "Children are People." A dis- -cussioh by the members followed Mrs. Dean Jensen and Mrs Walker entertained with a piano duet; plans were completed for the patriotic entertainment sponsored spon-sored by the club for Wednesday, Feb. 25., at the Third ward chapel. An auction of articles fox defence stamps was held. No refreshments were served, the hostess giving each member a defence stamp instead. in-stead. Social Time After Meeting Relief society board members of Sharon stake met at the home of Mrs. May Davis Thursday afternoon, after-noon, a social hour -and refresh -ments being enjoyed after the business session. Those attending were: Mrs. Eva Gillespie, president; Mrs. Mary Stewart, Mrs. Flora Bigler, Mrs. Merle Foote, Mrs. Jennie Farley, Mrs. Melba Pyne, Mrs. Clara Taylor Tay-lor and Mrs. Myrtle Christensen. About 2500 trespassers on railroad rail-road property are killed annually in the United States. cJo veil ft t.ss lit "; fsf t f cv 1 1 I I v tr'i?f& I r 'ty P': -KV 1 : 4 ! If I P j .1 C;A I.fV, ! V as Jealurecl in r Vy MADEMOISELLE f s exclusive with its 7 X, ;S I!? ;r : w;7 : 'AV-A t SOCIETY NEWS Rubenstein Is Discussed at Club Mrs. Lewis Allen gave a life sketch of Arthur Rubenstein, Polish pianist, at the Readers' Guild session held at the homo of Mrs. J. J. Shilling Friday afternoon. after-noon. Rubenstein will be presented as a University-Community Cn-cert Cn-cert number at the tabernacle, in April. A number of recordings were played by Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Lewis uiarK was appointed appoint-ed chairman fox the fourth anniversary an-niversary party to be held March 19, and Miss Edna Scott was named to represent the Guild in the bond sales campaign this week. A delicious luncheon was served. serv-ed. The president, Mrs. Grant Greer, was in charere. ( . Those attending were: Mrs Dan A. Anderson, Mrs. Morris Clinger, Mrs. Frank Van Wagen en, Mrs. Seth Smoot, Mrs. Grant Greer, Mrs. Lewis Allen. Miss Edna Scott, Mrs. Philip Knight, Miss Virla Birrell, Miss Irene Osmond, Mrs. Spencer Grow, Mrs. W. H. Clawson, Mrs. C. T. Spivey, Mrs. Glenn L. Lenke, Mrs. Conway Con-way Ashton and Mrs. Lewis Clark. Club Calendar DE NOVO Mrs. William Obie of Springville, Spring-ville, is entertaining the De Novo club members Monday, instead of Tuesday, at 1:30 o'clock. LAMBDA TAU Members of the Lambda Tau club will meet in the basement of the Masonic temple Monday evening eve-ning at 7:30 o'clock, to work on Red Cross surgical dressings. Mrs. Bert Bullock will be hostess at her home afterwards. DELPHIAN SOCIETY A meeting of the Delphian So- at last Now when you're you select must stand by coats and suits are tailored to Swansdown fabrics s . . . hvC v- -A wear. They're a duration investment. . (Above right) Costume-maker prints. Soft all wool crepe reefer street (Abort tefi) Pretty-making wo-pifcer,rithdresmakcr details. All-wool crepe in sizes"10-18.. $35.00 (Left) Custom4o!k"aieerfield "W ."ill-wool Venetian Suede in a range of toil shades. Siu 10-18.? $29.50 We will be closed In observance of Washington's Birthday, all day juonaay. 7. ' ' i- . ........... Service Wives, Mothers, to Be Honored A citizenship day program will be presented at the open session of the Women's Council, to be held Monday at 2 :30 o'clock at the women's clubhouse. Mrs. George Worthen is in charge, and announces that all wives and mothers of men and women in the service are cordial ly invited to attend as special guests. Mrs. George Ballif will present the book, - "See Here, Private Hargrove," Har-grove," and music will be furnished fur-nished by the music section of the council. Mrs. F. A. Brannon, leader of Girl Scout Troop No 1, and three of her girls, will take charge of the color guard. They include Eleanore Stephensen, Naomi Na-omi Nelson and Clarissa Slaugh-" enhoup. Refreshments will be served by a canteen from the council. ciety will be held Friday evening eve-ning at 8 o'clock at the Public library. The discussion for the month will be given and the current cur-rent topic is "The Problems of Our Relation to Latin America." MARY CECILIA Mrs. Lena Swenson is entertaining entertain-ing members of the Mary Cecelia club Tuesday afternoon at her home. NINETEENTH CENTURY Members of the Nineteenth Century Cen-tury club will meet Friday afternoon after-noon at the home of Mrs. H. W. Gease. Mrs. G. C. Larsen will talk on "Our Forests." SOCIAL ART Mrs. Leo J. Knight will entertain, enter-tain, the Social Art club members mem-bers at her home Tuesday evening eve-ning at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Fred P. Jacobs will tell of her experiences experi-ences in New Guinea. buying fewer clothes, those you. Swansdown keep their crisp lines. become lovelier through with your Spring in pastel and shades. Szes 1018.' $37.50 ; . Have Yoa Helped "GIVE -EM THE GUN" ? Xk 1. 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