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Show (Ml 0) UVJ ii ft 1 Mum U3 77ie Weather UTAH: Unsettled tonight and Friday. Probably showers or snow flurries. Little change in temper temp-er attire. Maximum temp., Wednesday .49 Minimum temp., Wednesday ..87 FIFTY-SECOND YEAR, MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Military Shake-up in Germany Ger-many Brings War Closer; Moderates Ousted; Generals Opposed Hitler's Cooperation Cooper-ation With Duce, Fearing Britain; Preferred to Concentrate Con-centrate On Russia; Considered Con-sidered Selves Unprepared ; Nazification of Rumania Gives Them Source of Vital Raw Materials. WASHINGTON Hitler's house-cleaning of military and diplomatic conservatives looks miles away from the American naval building program, but there is an indirect connection between be-tween the two just the same. Two factors were behind the house-cleaning: 1. Leaders of the German Army never have been pro-Nazi, have looked upon Hitler as a good rabble-rouser to be used by them, but to be relegated to the sidelines side-lines when thj military were ready to take ever. This was behind the Reichswehr's consideration consider-ation of the Hohenzollern family or the Duke of Windsor as a new Emperor of Germany, previously reported in this column. Hitler knew that he would have to act first or be acted upon. 2. Hitler has been much stronger strong-er for cooperation with Mussolini Musso-lini than his Army chiefs. Also he is more excitable and bellicose than the generals. As far as the rest of the world, including the United States, is concerned, the latter is the factor fac-tor to be watched, .y . j , THUMBS DOWN ON DUCE When Mussolini made his pilgrimage pil-grimage to Berlin, one of the pledges given him by Hitler was that Germany would send more troops into Spain. But this was exactly contrary to the wishes of the General Staff. So instead of more troops, Hitler woke up to find that there were fewer German Ger-man troops in Spain than at the time he had given his pledge to II Duce. Chief opponent of cooperation ( Continued on Page 6, Sec. 2) BENNETT RITES SLATED FRIDAY Funeral service ior John F. Bennett, former vice president of the Farmers and .Merchants bank of Provo, will be held Friday at 12:30 p. m. at the L. D. S. assembly as-sembly hall in Salt Lake City. Heber J. Grant, president of the L. D. S. church, and David O. McKay, second counselor, will be speakers. Mr. Bennett is known throughout through-out IJtafr as a bank and business man. In 1898, he organized and directed the Bennett Glass and Paint company "and continued actively act-ively as the president of the firm. He was also vice president and a member of the board ot directors of Utah Oil Refining and Consolidated Consoli-dated Wagon & Machine company (Continued on Page Six; BY One Miner KilledL Twb Cave-in -At Gilsonite i mow you readers wiU be glad to know that this paper will accept nothing but honest advertising. ad-vertising. The editor is just as strict as the editor of the Van Buren Press-Argus. One time a man came into the Argus office and says, "I wan 'ta advertise for a wife." 'Tfee editor says, "Well, we've got to be honest about it, what classification do you want me to put-that under?" do you want it under "business chances," "pet stock," or "household fixtures?" Copyrlsfct. 1938, by Enquire Features, Inc. Th NO. 153 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE ROOSEVELT ASKS BIGGER RELIEF FUND President Says Three Million Men Have Lost Their Jobs By LYLE C. WILSON United' Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt today estimated 3,000,000 persons have lost their jobs in the past three months, and asked congress for $250,000,-000 $250,000,-000 additional work relief funds to be spent between now and June 30. The president's request, contained con-tained in a letter to Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, would increase relief expenditures for the fiscal year to a total of $2,009,000,000. and lift the prospective pros-pective deficit from $1,088,100,000 to $1,338,100,000. Mr. Roosevelt said the new WPA funds would enable the administration ad-ministration to continue tie present pres-ent 1,950,000 persons on WPA rolls and afford "a reasonable measure of relief for those who have recently become unemployed and are in need.'' The president's estimate of a 3,000,000 boost in jobless rolls due to business recession, was his first authoritative statement of the effects of the economic setback set-back on the nation's employment situation. In making- the new appropriation. appropri-ation. Mr. Roosevelt asked that restrictions on work relief spending spend-ing be revised to allow the Works Progress Administration to spend the new funds over the remaining months of the fiscal year. To Maintain Rolls Mr. Roosevelt said the added appropriation would allow WPA to maintain its rolls at the present pres-ent approximate total of 1,950,000 persons over the next five months. Unless granted, he said, (Continued on Page Six) Ann Creer Howe Called by Death SPANISH FORK Mrs. Ann Creer Rowe, 80, a resident of Spanish Fork Third ward for 80 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie Rowe Beck, 91 West Fourth North, Wednesday Wednes-day at 11:30 a. m. from disease incident to advanced age-She age-She was born in Salt Lake City. March 31, 1857, to Edward and Ann Morr.j Creer. The family moved to Spanish Fork while she was an infant in arms. She married mar-ried Owen Rowe of another pioneer pio-neer family in 1875 and both became be-came prominent in civic and re-l.'ous re-l.'ous development of the community. com-munity. In her girlhood she became be-came a member of the first L.D.S choir in Spanish Fork organized and conducted by the late William R. Jones, and continued a member mem-ber until her health was impaired. She taught in the Third ward Relief society and she was presi dent of the Primary association of the ward for 18 years. She was (Continued on Paere Six) (ULVW BOB OUFNS-r e PROVO, UTAH Wed 48 Years Part House Too p V ' niiinii.i.iiiii.iuMmun im.iii.iii iwinimi W xTv w fiMiiiMiiiinaiT rwi irinnniiiDiirnniinriinMnni m p-- , Wed 48 years and parents of four children. Mr and Mrs. Albert Bowman of near Knoxville, Tenn., finally decided that they just couldn't live in the same house any longer. So they sawed their old frame home in two and Mis. Bowman moved her kitchen, bmall room and back porch (right foreground in top picture) 30 yards away from Mr Bowman's two front rooms and porch (left at top) Now they are maintaining separate residences. Said Mrs. Bowman (ir.set). "lie is just an old fox hunter." Said Mr. Bowman between toots on his fox horn. "She talks too much." Around the World ROUMANIAN CABINET RESIGNS TODAY BUCHAREST, Roumania, Feb. 10 (IIP) The Goga cabinet resigned re-signed today, it was learned reliably. re-liably. King Carol did not immediately accept the resignation. Octavian Goga, premier, formed the cabinet last December. BELGIAN FRONTIER TO BE CLOSED SOON LONDON, Feb. 10 l.P The Belgian foreign office announced officially today that the Belgian-German Belgian-German frontier would be closed shortly, the Exchange Telegraph company reported. CHINESE TROOPS DAM CHANG RtVER SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 OLE) Chinese Chi-nese sources reported today that Chinese troops had dammed the Chang r.ver, crossing the Peiping- Hankow railroad, and cut dikes so as to flood a big area of the countryside and impede the Japanese- The reports indicated that the main idea was to prevent the construction con-struction of adequate defenses against Chinese guerrilla raiders. RESCUE SHIPS APPROACH ICE FLOW MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (U.E) Two icebreakers today approached four Russian scientists isolated on an ice floe off the Greenland coast. A 54-hour silence was broken when the scientists reported by radio at noon yesterday that they wereNall right. Their position was 72.06 'north latitude, 139.8 west longitude, in sight of the east coast of Greenland. SPAIN FIGHTING FRONTS ARE QUIET HENDAYE, French Spanish Frontier, Feb. 10 IIE Spanish nationalists and loyalists both reported re-ported today that the Teruel and other fighting fronts were quiet. Evenim COUNTY, UTAH, TRANSMITS DIE BY ASPHYXIATION GLENDIVE, Mont., Feb. 10 (L'.R) Two transients were asphyxiated asphy-xiated today by a fire they had built in a refrigerator car. Identified by papers on the bodies as Arnold Pratt, 28, Little Falls, Minn., and Roy Munson, 36, Goshen, Ind., the men had built a charcoal fire in the ice bunker of the car, parked in the Northern Pacific yards. FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS SERVING IN CHINA PEIPING, China, Feb. 10 (U.E) A Japanese spokesman reported today that on the basis of an investigation by an unnamed foreign for-eign power there were at least 646 foreign volunteers serving with Chinese forces at the end of 1937, In addition, there were 200 naturalized Chinese, he said. The foreigners included 152 Ameri-ans, Ameri-ans, 17 of them negroes, 152 Britons; 124 Frenchmen and 315 Soviet Russians. ALL GERMANS ASKED TO REGISTER BERLIN, Feb. 10 J.R The government, by a special law today, to-day, extended to Germans abroad the obligation to register with German authorities which previously previ-ously applied to Germans at home. It was prescribed that Germans Ger-mans who live abroad longer than three months must register with German consular authorities. Prof. Ivins to Speak Tonight Prof. H. Grant Ivins of B. Y. U. will address the Public Forum Thursday at 8 p. m. in Provo high school library-auditorium on "Ja-Dan's "Ja-Dan's Conquest of the Far East." The public is invited. Open cus- cussion will follow. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1938 Rescued Mine JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION CALLED OFF May Band Festival Interfere ; Rules Bar Drawing To Members of the American Legion and of the chamber of commerce will not sponsor a Fourth of July celebration this year in Provo, it was announced an-nounced following a joint meeting of officers Thursday. Thurs-day. Inasmuch as the five-states regional band contest will be sponsored here in May, and due to limitations on drawings as conducted con-ducted in former years having been made, both groups agreed to forego 1938 plans. However, they pointed out, this is not a permanent policy. Because Be-cause the July celebration plans would fall so soon after the May band festivities, it was decided t two;inajbr celebrations " so cldsr together should not be attempted. Commander Frank Gardner of the Legion met with President Sidney W. Russell and Al E. Wright, retail merchants chair man of the chamber of commerce, Clayton Jenkins, chamber secre tary, said. Every intention of carrying on rne program in 1939 was evidenced at the meeting, it was stated The Legion was complimented on the fine way in which during the last eight or ten years it has car ried out the huge Fourth of July ceiecirauons. CHEZ MAY ASK GRAND JURY SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. 10 (IIP) State Attorney General Joseph Chez today refused to con firm apparently authoritative re ports that he would lead a de mand for a grand jury investiga tion of Salt Lake City's alleged vice payoff system. A delegation representing the Salt Lake County Progressive Democratic league, called on Chez today, and reported he had "been extremely encouraging" to their request that he frame a petition asking the investigation which would include not only actual vice conditions "but the manner in which the Salt Lake cuy commission commis-sion handled vice charges." A member" of the delegation declared de-clared Chez had agreed to frame the petition and to assign a deputy attorney-general to aid vice prosecution. Chez's statement, issued a half hour after the conference, declared declar-ed however, he would give "every consideration" to the league's demand de-mand and that he "would act without hesitation if the facts justify such action." Merchants Favor Court Contest of Inventory Law That local merchants favor court action on the monthly inventory in-ventory tax ruling of the state tax commission is Indicated following fol-lowing a meeting of business men Thursday morning in the chamber cham-ber of commerce office. Five committeemen Al E. Wright, J. W. Christensen, Harold Har-old Leven, Paul D. Vincent and Clayton Jenkins were named to meet with other merchants of the state Tuesday in Salt Lake City. Following an explanation of methods and costs of the legal action, the body will decide on advisability of a test case. The merchants empowered the local committee to act for them. Costa wouia t-3 borne by merchants aligned against the tax method. Herald Property g Steel Workers to Resist Wage Cut As Prices Drop Independent Companies Start Price Reductions; Others Follow NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (U.R) The Steel Workers organ- izincr committee, a C. I. O. affiliate, will fight any at tempt by the United Slates Steel corporation to use the escape" clause of the ex tended company - union con tract to reduce wages, it was in dicated today. The clause provides that negoti ations for contract alterations may start on 10 days' notice from either party; and that if no agreement is reached within 20 days of such notice- the contract will be terminated automatically. Three hours before "big steel" renewed "indefinitely" its agreement agree-ment with the S. W. O. C. yesterday, yester-day, several independent companies compan-ies reduced prices as much as $4 a. ton. o.Q .spme of. their products. These reductions were met immediately im-mediately by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, U. S. Steel's largest subsidiary. Statement Recalled It was recalled that Benjamin F. Fairless, U. S. Steel president, said recently that prices could not be reduced without corresponding corre-sponding wage cuts. Under the "escape" clause, the corporation left open the possibility of wage reductions should price conditions be considered to require them. Although the S. VV. O. C. was unsuccessful in its attempt to obtain ob-tain a guarantee of no wage cuts, both Philip Murray, S. W. O. C. chairman, and John L. Lewis nailed the "indefinite' extension as a victory for labor and a pro tection for the wages of approximately approxi-mately 240,000 workers affected by it. Provisions Retained The agreement extends "indefinitely" "indef-initely" the union's contract, which was to have expired on Feb. 28. Leaving wages subject to possible , readjustment, it re tains the JS-aday minimum and time and a half for overtime. It also retains the 40-hour week, paid vacations for workers of five years' service, the seniority sys tern governing promotions and lay-offs, and the system of grievance griev-ance committees in the mills, and continues to recognize the union as collective bargaining agency only for its members. Although the contract covers only U. S. Steel subsidiaries Carnegie-Illinois, American Steel and Wire company, National Tube company and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company it will be used by the union as the pattern for new contracts with all companies com-panies hat have recognized the union. Lincoln Day Banquet Speakers Announced Republicans of Utah County to Pay Homage To Great Emancipator Saturday Night Complete program details for the Lincoln-day banquet sponsored by Utah county Republicans, in Hotel Roberts Saturday at 7 p. m., are announced today by Ed. M. Rowe, county chairman. The theme will be "What would Lincoln say or do if he were alive today and were confronted with the New Deal T I. E. Brockbank, local attorney, will be toastmaster. Mayor Mark Anderson will give the address of welcome. Other speakers and their subjects are: Attorney Joseph E. Nelson, Spanish Fork, "Lincoln and the Slogan;" Claude Salisbury, Springville, 'Taxation or Confiscation Mrs. Lottie Lot-tie Worthen, "What the Women Are Thinking;" Honorable Harry S. Joseph, Salt Lake City, "The Mining Situation in Utah;" and Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, "Wit and Humor of Taxation." Tax-ation." Music will be furnished by Ted Maynard, Mrs. Nola Nilsson and Hilrna Henry , . , Herald Service If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call the Herald office, 495 before 7- p. m. week days, and 10 a. in. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE! F rom VICTIM IS CRUSHED IN SHAFT Miner 50 Pinned Beneath Tons Of Gil- sonite At Mine ROOSEVELT, Utah, Feb. 10 (U.R) Roy Campbell, 43, was killed and two others, one of them Campbell's son, were rescued after being entombed en-tombed for six hours in a mine cave-in here late yesterday. yes-terday. Campbell was crushed between 50 tons of gilsonite. He was working 800 feet underground in one of the mine's deepest shatts. Campbell's son. Darwell, and Everett Pope, another workman, started to his rescue when they were cut off and trapped by a second sec-ond cave-in. Rescued Last fiiiglxt Rescuers reached young Darwell Dar-well and Pope at 7 o'clock last night, six hours after the slide. The pair had been able to breathe through the rocks, they said. Campbell's body was not recovered recov-ered until after his son and fellow fel-low workman were rescued. The cave-in was the first serious seri-ous accident in the history of the Parriette mine, principal gilsonite producer in the United States, according to C. J. Neal, mine manager. Terrific Storm Hits California SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (HP) A score of cities today were strewn with wreckage caused by a violent Pacific gale that lashed the California coast with 80 mile winds, killed five and injured dozens of persons, and destroyed millions of dollars worth of property. prop-erty. Buildings collapsed; whole communities com-munities were stripped of trees; power lines were destroyed and hundreds of families were left homeless when their flimsy tents and cabins were carried away. A new deluge of rain followed the windstorm today, continuing the stormy weather that has beset the west coast for two weeks. The destruction of crops and orchards was tremendous. Several towns were isolated by blocked roads and loss of telephone lines. Some were left in darkness when power service failed. Trains were stalled and radio stations cancelled programs for lack of power. MINE PRICE FIVE CENT3 11 SUBMIT BIDS; RAISE WAGE SCALE Common Labor Scale Is Raised to 65 Cents Per Hour SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10 (U.R) A U. S. department of labor change in the wage scale for laborers today resulted re-sulted in a one-day delay in opening of bids for preliminary prelimin-ary work on the Deer Creek project in Provo canyon. Eleven contractors who submitted submit-ted bids this morning were reconsidering recon-sidering their estimates to include a raise to 65 cents per hour scale for common laborers, an increase of five cents an hour over the previous contract specifications. Sent To Denver E. O. Larson, district engineer of the bureau of reclamation, said bids would be recalled tomorrow morning, with bidding open only to those who submitted bids to day. The opened bids wijl be forwarded for-warded to Denver and then to Washington, where the contract will later be let by the commissioner commis-sioner of reclamation. Opening bids will cover construction con-struction of the dam, relocation of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad tracks, construction construc-tion of highway links, tunnels and bridges, as well as lesser phases of work. Heber CCC Camp To Ce Retained Says Washington SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10 (U.E) Governor Henry H. Blood was notified today that approval had been granted for retention of CCC camps on reclamation projects proj-ects in Utah. This includes two camps, one on the proposed Deer Creek reclamation rec-lamation project. The approval notice was wired by Senator Elbert D. Thomas and Congressman Abe Murdock. KIWANIS HONOR EMANCIPATOR Honoring the memory of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, six Kiwanians today told fellow members of his outstanding out-standing attributes and character. char-acter. Triumphs of Lincoln over difficulty dif-ficulty were told by J. W. Christensen Chris-tensen Jr., who declared "This should be an ""inspiration for all of us to carry on despite defeats and obstacles." Andrew Broaddus described his unselfish attitude in the selection of cabinet members. Using as an example his speech at Springfield where the citizens were asked "never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country," Judge Dallas H. Young spoke on Lincoln's views of law observance. His sense of humor was illustrated illus-trated by Herbert Vance and Clyde Crockett read his Eulogy of Washington. Tribute to his character was read by Denzil Brown. Walter Adams told of Lincoln's economic practices. Concluding the program, Dr. Madison Merrill, dressed as the martyred president, read his Gettysburg Address. Wallace Wayman was introduced intro-duced as a guest. Community singing was led by Dr. Frank T. Reynolds. Jacob Coleman was chairman. Bingham Judge Facing Charges SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10 . . (C.B County Auditor Ferrell H. Adama today asked Salt Lake county commissioners for a criminal crim-inal complaint against Justice of the Peace S. J. Kenner of Bingham. Bing-ham. He charged peculations in fines and bail forfeitures collected by tha court. Rotary Speaker The Rev. Edwin F. Irwin .of Provo Community church, will address Rotarians on a Lincoln dav theme Friday at 12:15 pn.i in Hotel Roberts. |