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Show HARRY E. O'NEILL, special representative of i the alien property custodian at Washington, who is here checking up enemy-owned property. 1 A f- - JSBt k BOARD DEADLOCK IS STILLiBflOKE! No Action Taken Last Night on School Superintendence Superintend-ence Matter. No action was taken last night by the city board of education toward the appointment ap-pointment of a superintendent of schools for the coming two years. No recommendations as to employment of supervisors or principals were before the board. Adjournment was without date and the appointments of superintendent, superin-tendent, surpervisors and principals will not be determined before the next regular regu-lar meeting, June 11, unless a called meeting of the board is held for the purpose. pur-pose. Indications are that a special meeting may be called within a few days, but action ac-tion with regard to appointment of a superintendent su-perintendent has been expected from day to day for weeks. The deadlock is as unchanged un-changed now as early in the present year five for and five against reappointment reappoint-ment of Dr. Ernest A. Smith. A compromise candidate is being talked of as the only solution of the situation. Among others, J. O. Cross, one time identified iden-tified with the schools of Salt Lake and later principal of the Ogden high school, now superintendent of the schools of Fresno, Cal., is mentioned in some quarters. quar-ters. Discontinuance of beginners classes in German in the junior high schools was ordered by the board last night. The advanced ad-vanced classes will be continued, to permit per-mit pupils to complete courses already begun. Attention of the board to a resolution passed by the war industries board of the council of national defense, opposing unnecessary building, was called by a letter from W. F. Jensen, commissioner of commercial economy for Utah. The secretary was instructed to write Mr. Jensen to the effect that the building programme of the school system had been trimmed to barest necessity, which Mr. Jensen asked should be done. A protest from the Lambert Manufacturing Manufac-turing company against alleged discrimination discrim-ination against the firm in the bidding on construction of the roof of the Irving school was referred to the committee on buildings and grounds for investigation and report. |