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Show . -i. : jv i - ; -v i . - . .... ... - - :. Herald Herald Service If you do not receive yonr Herald promptly, call the Herald' office, 495, before 7 p. m. week; days, and 10 a. m. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. - . The Weather UTAII: Snow flurries tonight and probably 1 Wednesday, L; It trip change In tenders tore. Max. .temp ? Monday' "i -. . . . . . .40 MIn. tempw, "Monday . .... ". . . SX ; FIFTY-THIRD YEAR, rim 117 UTAH'S ONX.T DAHjT SOUTH OF SALT LAKH PRQYO, UTAH" :G0UNTYi? r UTj;-TUESDAY, DECEMBER r 20, 1938 COMPTTJ UNITED PRESS D'OTHX!1 TfTUT? P.F.NTf TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE IT XvJ.Vjl r X V Ei KjLJL - A Slice of France Please! If--- J- -.. -r- - u'-'" ' - "'. ' vj'i- ' (fiY fo)foinrn a 1 r IfI f :' ' . ' r i n ? ,1 -, Italian students staee a leerine. carrying signs demanding Tunis Corsica and other French possessions. pos-sessions. : ; , : n MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN SAN FRANCISCO Governor Culbert Olson's pardon message for Tom Mooney has already been written. The new governor is going through the motion of holding ; hearings on the question of re- 1 leasing the famous prisoner, but few people" in : CaUT drnla" believe-there believe-there is any doubt of the out-tome. out-tome. Certainly there is no doubt m Governor Olson's mind. His pardon statement is a review re-view of the American bill of rights, with a reminder to Mooney which really la intended more for the .public than for him that the dictators of Europe would have shot him long ago. So the American people can be grateful. Governor Olson's advance message mes-sage concludes, that it has a system sys-tem of justice temperate and sane enough to permit a pardon after two decades of imprisonment. NOTE: Reports are that the Community party will run Mooney as its presidential candidate in 1940, though some of Mooney's friends say he is too shrewd to get mixed up in that sort of thing. j KEREN SKY ROOSEVELT - Herbert Hoover, speaking informally in-formally at a business men's luncheon not long ago, was asked whether he considered Franklin Roosevelt more like Hitler or like Stalin. "Neither," the ex-president is reported as replying. "Roosevelt is the Kerensky of the United States." MISS PERKINS George Creel, chief dynamo behind be-hind the Gokten Gate Exposition, was taking Secretary of Labor (Continued on Page Eight) 4 Shopping Days Till Christmas T OOXING BACK TO CHRIST-"J CHRIST-"J MAS FOUR YEARS AGO Dionne quints enjoying first Christmas. . . . Legion of Decency De-cency launching campaign against film filth, 'i . . Fleming-ton, Fleming-ton, N. becoming overnight boom town on eve of Haupt-mann Haupt-mann trial. . . Best seller: "So Red theBose ... - Charred hulk of Morro Castle being re- j moved from New Jersey beach. , . It "was merry season for New Deal, Just upheld in mid- J . term elections. 7 "jga Cfiaae v i shoutme demonstration in Milan, Hitler To Test Power Of Soviet BY JOE ALEX MORRIS Copyright by United Press Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler is groping cautiously toward a solution so-lution of the world's most perplexing per-plexing post-war mystery the strength of the Soviet Union. The German fuehrer is breaking ground for the test in the fertile fields of the Ukraine. There, n a z i - encouraged agitation is spreading for the creation of a -new, nation to- be- called. Greater Ukrainia. Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia and Russia would lose sovereignty over an area as big as Texas and Kansas combined and with a population as large as that of France if the agitation achieves its goal. But the real snearhead is aimed at Soviet Rus- sia and if is there that daneer . arises of tremendous explosion. Fight to. the Finish A head-on collision between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia would mean a fight to the finish between fascist and communist philosophies. It would mean an opportunity for- Japan to strike at the Soviets' Siberian frontiers to end communist opposition to her plans for dominance over China. It would mean a war which the rest of the world could escape only by a miracle. For a decade and a half the Soviets have been developing their armed forces for the war they expect eventually p o s s i b ly against enemies on fronts separated separ-ated by more than 3,500 miles. Nobody has ever known whether the Red armies would crack or conquer in a showdown. Within a few days, Hitler is to retire for a rest of several weeks at his mountain lodge at Berch-tesgaden Berch-tesgaden where he isolated himself him-self for mediation before the Austrian Aus-trian and Czech crises. When he returns, the question of how and when and where the next crisis will develop may Tie clarified. This Day . . . BORN To Mrs. Etha Bleak Christensen ajid the late Morris Christensen, a girl, Dec. 16, at Jackson City, Wyoming. To Mr. and Mrs. David H. Gordon. Gor-don. R. F. D. No. 2, Box 248A, a girl, Monday. To Frank A. and Phyllis Barker Bar-ker Van Wagenen, a girl, Monday afternoon at the Crane maternity home. LICENSED TO MARRY Valarious Webb Zimmerman. 23. Lehi, and Fern Virginia Hut-chings, Hut-chings, 19, Springville, in Salt Lake City. DIED George Clyn Christensen, infant in-fant son of La Verl and Faye Vji Wagenen Christensen, this morning morn-ing at a local hospital. Marian Thompson, four - week-old week-old daughter of Charles Russell and Edna Peay Thompson, Monday Mon-day night of pneumonia. Steven B. Ostler, four-month-old son of Gerald A. and Marie Hardy Ostler, 274 West Fifth South, this morning. William Christian Williamson, 71. early today at his home in Lake View. CITY SELLS IMPROVEB BONDS TODAY Salt Lake Syndicate Awarded Contract For New Issue Provo city officials today sold $64,409.23 in special improvement im-provement bondstat a price of $102.75 to three Salt Lake City bidders presenting a combined offer. The companies, com-panies, Mayor Mark Anderson Ander-son reported, were Goddard and Company, Edward L. Burton company and Ure, Pett and Morris. Bonds will fall due in ten equal installments beginning in Decem ber, 1939. The bonds are to complete fi nancing of street paving- district No. 28-A in which 110 blocks were included of 18 to 41-foot wide rock asphalt pavement. Total cost of the paving was $125,672.70 of which WPA furn ished 536,346.54; Provo City, $17,361.10; and property owners have or will pay $71,965.06. Cost to property owners would be about 95 cents per lineal foot on 24-foot width. Bonds were issued to cover the total property assessment less the amount of $7,555.93, collected in advance. City officials were high ly pleased with this payment, more than 10 per cent of the total assessment. Forty blocks of city-wide pav ing are contemplated for next year reports Street Commissioner J. P. McGuire. YOR i BY ASSAILANT NEW YORK, Dec. 20 IIE Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia was struck and knocked down today as he mounted the steps of City Hal1 y a tall, stocky man who plunged out of a crowd. The man was identified as James J. Hagen, 48, of the Bronx, He is unemployed. The mayor grappled with his assailant and a policeman hit the gray-haired man on the mouth. The policeman yanked the assailant to his feet with the mayor hanging on to one leg. Four pol:ccment carried the man into City Hall and to an anteroom of the mayor's office where they dumped him on' the floor. The mayor decided the man was not rational and ordered a Belle-vue Belle-vue hospital ambulance- It was expected the man would be exam-led exam-led in the psychopathic division of the hospital. Lions to Banquet Blind of Provo Arrangements have been completed com-pleted for the Christmas banquet for the blind given by the Provo Lions club. Forty invitations have been maUed to the blind people of Provo and the immediate immed-iate vicinity to attend this Lions banquet on Friday, December 30, 1938, at 12:30 p. m. at the Haas Cafe. The Lions committee in charge are J. W. Thornton, chairman; chair-man; Oscar Bjerregaard, Dl W. Woolf, and Seymour Grayr The program for the occasion Is being prepared by J. W. Jacobs who will also be master of ceremonies. Commissioner for the blind for the state of Utah, Murray B. Allen, has been invited and has promised to be in attendance. All the blind people will be hauled o and from the banquet by members mem-bers of the Provo Lions' club. Utah Oil Group Is Entertained Thirty-five Utah Oil Refining company employees, their wives and partners, were ente rained at a delightful Christmas party at the plant Monday afternoon- Gifts were distributed to all by J. J. Winters and a buffet supper was" serve A Division Manager Man-ager Heher C. Johnson, M. H. Sutton of the Salt Lake City office, and Horatio Jones, spoke briefly. Donna. Lee Master was introduced as the new of flee employee. em-ployee. Mrs. Sutton accompanied her husband STRUCK Standing In Line! (Editorial) Did you have to stand in line at the postoffice for what seemed like hours ? So did we! Did you hear a lot of cussing because the postmaster post-master hasn't provided more extra help to take care of the Christmas rush that everybody knew was coming? ' I'll say we did ! Everybody thinks that something ought to be done about it. With lines of people stretching clear out on the sidewalk at times, the congestion seems to be worse this year than ever before. It isn't the fault of the clerks on duty. They are doing all they can under trying circumstances. Certainly, Uncle Sam, proud -is he is of the efficiency ef-ficiency of his postoffice organization, is willing to provide enough help to adequately handle the Christmas business. That's why he gives all postmasters authority to employ extra help when it is needed and as the public demands. Uncle Sam wants the public to be pleased with the service. serv-ice. More business means more prosperity and more employment for idle men. In fact, one of his mam concerns-, right now is to provide work for the unemployed. un-employed. So. please, Mr. Postmaster, Post-master, put on a few more extra clerks to wait on us at the postoffice. so we won't have to stand in line so long. Arms Plot Probed In Druggist Case NEW YORK. Dec. 20 U.R Federal authorities turned up evidence evi-dence today that McKesson & Rot-bins, Inc., was involved In a deal to sell 2,000,000 outmoded army rifles to the Chinese army but was turned down by Generalissimo General-issimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The disclosure came .as the state's attorney general, in a public pub-lic hearing produced testimony that Philip Musica. as F. Donald Coster, president of the 105-year-old drug firm, was an autocratic executive whose decisions were seldom questioned by other directors direc-tors and officers. That China was the destination of a large supply of Lee-Enfield army rifles which Coster undertook under-took to deliver was revealed by a source at the federal building where witnesses were being presented pre-sented to the grand jury. Frederick Wlngersky, vice presi-( presi-( Continued on Page Two) STORY LODGE MEETING Story Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M., will install newly elected officers tonight at 8 o'clock In Masonic temple. Refreshments will be' served following the ceremonies. Charles DeMoisy Jr., will be installed in-stalled worshipful master succeeding succeed-ing Carl Schaerrer. Henry G. Blumenthal will be marshal. Jailed "Bum" To Lead Way From Doomed "Patterson JUNEAU. Alaska. Dec. 20 (HE) Nels Ludwigson, a "bum? yesterday, yes-terday, was a hero today as he guided 16 shipwrecked seamen to safety over the storm-swept, rugged terrain of Cape Fair-weather. Fair-weather. Released from jail after serving half of a 10-day sentence for be- lng drunk and disorderly, Nels was given a friendly lap on the back by his jailers. "You bring 'cm back, Nels," they said. "You're the one that can do it.". , . He Is acknowledged one of the best woodsmen In the north. ? Nels .climbed Into Sheldon - Sim- mons' seaplane. A few. hours, later MEDIC GROUP CHARGED IN INDICTMENT Fate Of Cooperative Medicine Rests On Outcome WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U.R) A federal grand jury today returned criminal indictments in-dictments charging violation of anti-trust laws against the American Medical association, three affiliated medical groups and 21 individuals. Five of the 21 individuals named in the indictments were from Chicago, Chi-cago, including Dr. Morris Fish-bein, Fish-bein, editor of the American Medical Medi-cal Association's Journal and outstanding out-standing spokesman for conservative conserva-tive elements of the medical profession. pro-fession. The remaining indicted individuals are from the District of Columbia. Culminating more than two months of investigation by the grand jury, the indictments were based on the charge the defendants defend-ants combined to block cooperative cooper-ative medical moves. Specifically, the government's case was based upon opposition that developed ifl the medical profession against Group Health Inc., a cooperative pioneer medical cooperative in the District of Columbia. Heavy Burden Cooperative groups have contended con-tended that the burden of high medical costs has fallen most heavily on that portion of the population least able to finance such care. Burdens of medical treatment, they argued, are out of proportion for that segment of the population between the indigent indi-gent who have access to free clinics and the well-to-do who can afford the best of care. fv:'?fhe: indicted Individuals are high officials of the AMA or of its affiliate, the District of Columbia Co-lumbia Medical society. The indicted Washington physicians physi-cians were active in the District of Columbia group, headed by Thomas Edwin Neill, president of the District of Columbia Medical society, and Coursen B. Conklin, its secretary-treasurer, Outcome of the case is expected to determine the fate of cooperative coopera-tive medicine in the United States and ultimately may have far reaching effects on every individual individ-ual practicing medicine or receiving receiv-ing medical care. CABINET RIFT IS THREATENED LONDON, Dec. 20 iV.P.t Political Politi-cal quarters reported today that Prime Minister Neville Chamber-lam Chamber-lam was threatened with a cabinet cab-inet revolt. This time the dispute Involved not the government's foreign policy but its rearmament program, pro-gram, it was reported. According to political gossip, a number of men of junior ministerial minis-terial rank, demanded the resignation resig-nation of four key cabinet men Leslie Hore-Belisha, war secretary; secre-tary; Sir Thomas Inskip, minister for defense co-ordination; Viscount Runclman, lord president of the council, and Earl Winter-ton, Winter-ton, special assistant to the home secretary. Runciman and Winterton joined the cabinet within the last few months. The duties attaching to their official posts are but nominal; nom-inal; they are named really to be among the half dozen leaders 'n rearmament work. amid snow and sleet they circled over the wreck of the old trading trad-ing ship, the Patterson, which went aground during a storm eight days ago. Eighteen survivors surviv-ors of the wreck huddled around fires. . . Simmons, veteran of many Alaska mercy flights, dropped a bundle of food by parachute. Then he took their chance of fretting down. TheV landed during the storm in sea Otter creek near the wreck. ' I Nels was left to guide most of the party to Lituya Bay,25 miles to the south. Simmons: took Chief Engineer,-. Clare .McDowell, and Third Officer . Steven Johnson aboard and- returned to -Juneau. No, This Isn't Carole '' " v T - v , - . , -f v v-yv i - tL - - , V . V v x ' N ir - vi v, j ' vv o, 5: vi fv 5 .. . i '--. . w rx . d v. "-w" '5a'V - X I U - - - aX 'Oa.x s "a v1 , s vO , J '- V A A V, f X1 sX'y r ' -.'x sl IV v & ' ' I' I' Her friend? say Mulvina Stanley Lombard of the movies. What do 19, is a Seattle waitress and part in Portland. Four Killed In Crash Of Army Plane BOERNE, Tex., Dec. 20 U.E pour members oi the Uniiea States armed service were killed last night when a coast guard plane exploded over this town and crashed. The victims were Lieut. P. S. Lyons of the Coast Guard, pilot of the ship and unit commander; Ensign C. T. Teague of the U. S. Navy; Rupert H. Germaine of the Coast Guard; and George C. Latham, Lath-am, enlisted man in the army, from Fort Bliss. The plane, from the El Paso Coast Guard base, crashed only 30 miles short of Kelly Field, San Antonio, its destination. Townspeople said the plane exploded ex-ploded as it passed over them, burst into flames and crashed in a pasture at the city limits. Some of the bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage. One was charred, and others were burned. Lieut. Lyons, 35, would have celebrated his first wedding anniversary anni-versary with Mrs. Lyons, the former for-mer . Virginia Wells, Marblehead, Mass., debutante, on Christmas day. District Created For Water System In Manila Ward Water service will be available shortly to approximately 40 homeowners home-owners in Manila following approval ap-proval late Monday afternoon of a special improvement district in the area, by the county commission. commis-sion. Total cost of the project is expected ex-pected to be about $16,000; a WPA appropriation of $8,000 is available and the remainder of the cost will be raised from property prop-erty owners. Water will be transported trans-ported from a nearby spring. Signers to the petition, for district dis-trict creation are: R. D, Wadley, J. D. Roundy, L. M. Atwood, K. Warnick Swenson, Virgil Meredith, Mere-dith, H. V. Swenson, B. N. Allen. W. W. Warnick, A. P. Warnick. During the late afternoon county coun-ty commissioners also: Appointed Mrs. Maggie F. Hundley registration agent in Provo District No. 6 succeeding Mrs. Sadie M- Armstrong, who resigned. Took under advisement a request re-quest of Timpanogos Saddle club to quarter horses at the county fair grounds. Approved a request for road work by Salem Citizens Ernest wide safety movement which fol-N. fol-N. Sabinfc A. F. Christensen, B. E. lowed the recent Jordan district Stone, Lynn D. Cloward, (above) is the "double" of Carole you think? Miss Stanley, who is - time model. She formerly resided SOCIAL UNITS' PLEDGES NAMED Announcement of pledging for the fall quarter to social unts of Brigham Young university was made Monday by Lydia Whicker, secretary of the- intersocial unc council. Sixty-seven students were pledged pledg-ed to 17 social units for men and women. The new pledges were required to have had at least one quarter of college work previous prev-ious to the.'r pledging. New members of the women's social units are: Alta Miras; Helen Farnswortn, Provo; Phyllis Holt, Tooele; Idel Warnock, Sigurd; Sig-urd; Mildred Marshall, Panguitch; Norma Redd, Blandiig; Olive Parker, Draper; and Zona Hopkins. Hop-kins. Garland, Wyo. Cesta Tie: Ruth Nicholes, Provo, and Helen Loveless, Copperton. Em Anon: Lois Duff in, Axtell; Elayn;e Skeem, Oasis; Lura Snarr. Salt Lake City; Vera Neves, Burlington, Wyo.; Faye and Fern Ross, Fargo, South Dakota; and Nelle Taylor, Col. Dublan, Chih, Mex. Fidelas: Una Oldroyd, Venice; Blanche Jones, Provo; Hazel Crandail, Salina; and Virginia Barrus, Tooele. Geferan: Barbara Hanks, Burley, Ida , and Betty Curtis, Cokeville, Wyo. La Deja: Beth Pendleton, Provo. Les Cecilienne: Ruth Berlin, Og-den; Og-den; Chloe Butterf.-eld, Riverton; Lucille Giles, Salt Lake City; Wanda Fames, Twin Bridges, Mont.; Lillian Spottan, Sanford, Colo.; and Virginia, Rupper. Loha-O: Geraldine Bowles, Nephi; Maxine Bjerregaard, Provo; Lila Prescott, Kamas; Edna Myrup, Bountiful. Nautilus: Patricia Higby, Boise, Ida. Ta Lenta: Eudora Knudsen, Lehi; Eleanor Toomey, Sandy; Florence Hurst, Texas; and Flora Martin, Ronan, Mont. Thalian: Flora Howard, Huntington. Val Norn: Mildred Harris, Provo. Men's Units New members of the men's units are: Brickers: Jack R. Gibb and Les Taylor, Provo. Brigadiers: Briga-diers: Rienwaldy Uechty, Provo; Elden Peterson, Ross Anderson, Mt. Pleasant; Scott George, Kan-osh; Kan-osh; Burlyn Brown, Benson, Ariz-; Murr Skousen, Chandler, Ariz. Tausig: La Veil Biglow, Harry (Continued on Page Two) Millard County Crossings Closed SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20 (HE) Five dangerous railway crossings cross-ings in Millard county were ordered or-dered closed yesterday by the state public service commission. . The action was part of a state- school bus crash. STATE WAGES HOURS PLAN IS FORESEEN Hug gins Leads Senate's President Race; Four Vie In House BY MURRAY M. BIOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20 (U.R) Capital sources predicted pre-dicted today that labor legislation legis-lation and revision of the 1937 direct primary law would highlight activity of the 23rd session of the Utah state legislature, leg-islature, which begins Jan. 9. Interest in the session is mounting mount-ing steadily. A majority of the 21 Democratic members of the 23-member state senate got together to-gether last week end and decided they would support State Senator Ira Hugglns of Ogden for election as president of the senate. Similar meetings of state representatives rep-resentatives are expected to beheld be-held soon to eliminate or strengthen strength-en various prospective candidates for speakership of the house of representatives, which will have a membership of 45 Democrats and 15 Republicans. The direct primary law was tried for the first time in the history his-tory of the state this year. Even before the August election, numerous num-erous complaints against it were voiced throughout the state. Deputy Secretary of State Frank Lees said most of the objections ob-jections were against the runoff primary, which the law says should be held two weeks after the regular nominating election. Most opponents of the runoff contended con-tended it was unnecessary and involved in-volved needless expense. Filing Change Lees said there also would probablybe- agttatibnr Wr ajneiifl the election law to permit candi dates for the house of represent? tives to file with their respective county clerks, rather than with the Secretary of State as is now required. He said no fault has been found with the filing procedure proced-ure for state senators, who in many instances represent multiple-county districts. Senatorial candidates file with the secretary of state. Wage-Hour Plan Chief among the labor laws (Continued on Page Two) 2 Firms Announce Christmas Bonus Special Christmas bonuses to employes were announced to the Herald today by two Provo firms. Forty-four employes of the J. C. Penney company store wiU share in a bonus recently voted by the board of directors. Those who have been with the company for a year will receive two weeks' extra salary. Others who have served shorter period including extras will receive paymens commensurate com-mensurate with their length of service, according to Clyde P. Crockett, manager. Another Provo firm to reward its employes with a Christmas bonus is Flrmages' Inc. Their payrrJents range from one month's pay to a' week's pay depending de-pending on the length of service with the store. The special cash distribution will also extend to the extra salespeople at the store, according to E. R. Firm age, manager. man-ager. Bob Burns Says I have always maintained that the big wealthy families in the city are not as close as those in a small' town, and I got so many arguments on the subject that not long ago. when I was in New York, I thought I'd check' up. I went walkin' out through the fashionable residential dis trict until X, came to a big, mposin' loo kin louse and I went in. After talkin' my way past a doorman uid a couple of butlers, I finally got to see the lady of the house. I says, "Have you any children? .; She says, "Yes, I have one daughter." I says "Does she live, here?" And the lady thought a while and y then , says, !WelI, :I suppose she1: does. I see her. at breakfast pretv:near-every. morn-: tag"? Copyright i938,Esqulre -"Features i ,1 |