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Show I Two 15 - Year 01d "Kids Elude vGjbxernment GuarHs-i;tb Break Inte Impregrieible, San ..Francisco e ' 9& 1 could see all the guards J- SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 29 OLE Two 15-year-old kids broke into ' San Francisco's supposedly im- pregnable new $1,000,000 U. S. .mint, took a copper .plate as a I souvenir, then broke , out again . without detection and telephoned - police to "come get a copper, thev boys related today after amazed authorities took them in-. in-. to custody. In and Out Again ':. First reported captured inside the mint, Paul Francis and Wil-jliam Wil-jliam Gallagher, convinced flab- bergasted ' authorities they not only Entered the heavily guarded structure but actually - got . out again with their "souvenir" and could have easily: escaped if they had not boastfully called ( officers to get them. The boys said they shinnied up a drain pipe to a ridge on the second floor, got past a guard reading a newspaper, and entered enter-ed through a partially open window. win-dow. "We took a copper plate as proof that we'd been inside," they told reporters. "Then shinnied out, went to" a " garage arid telephoned the cops. They thought we-were kidding, them. -We finally convinced convinc-ed 'em." V The young raiders, just an ordinary or-dinary looking pair of school kids, were delighted with the publicity they created by crashing' into, the monumental four-story treasury repository. Officials Red-Faced Red-faced officials were unable to figure out how the boys avoided avoid-ed the tear gas equipment, im- penetrable attack-proof steel heavy bars, intricate ' fcurglar alarms end .the rest of it to say nothing , of a young-, army of guards, j - - r Paul and; William are students at St. .Vincent's schbol, one, of the strictest schools in the '".city.'" ;si "I was on a street car , coming back to town from ilngleside,' William related, "when I decided I would call on PauL Paul-lives about two blocks from the min$. We often go for walks together "We walked past the -mint and noticed, an. open window ,on story. It was open "We managed to. reach the win hung up and went back to the mint." V-4 "Then this guard .came up";With the second ' dow. We pushed it open with our through a window "on the first floor jo then I tiptoed back, took Justx.alitUe. hands and tiptqed into the room. There was an engine in the corner a copper plate and threw it .out a gun and grabbed us oy . tne shirt. Gee, there were guards run "We don't ouw just what made to pur left. I . hit some wrenches and gloves and knocked them onto on-to the floor. ' . the window. Uft:do' lt but we thought it would 'Then we tiptoed back and ning all over the place. They took us Inside and kept us about' half an hour. 5 . j Reporters asked the youngsters how the mint could be made "so nobody could get inside." "All they might do,M William DC zun a juy lo gei in tor a peea. climbed down again. We went to just to-see if we could do it. . "Then we saw a wheelbarrow full of packages of copper in the center of the room. A door was open leading onto the hallway. I a garage at Duboce and Church (near the mint) and phoned the police. I just asked the operator for a policeman. I said: 'Hey copper, cop-per, come on up and get some copper outside the mint.' The cops thought we were kidding. So we i . ".wecumDca up Dy noiaing on to the bars on the first floor win-dows win-dows After we reached the .level of the second floor, we climbed up on a little ridge on a tower where the guard sat reading a newspaper. tiptoed into the hallway and looked look-ed into a yard in the center of answered, is lock the windows. ! "Gee, I hope nobody loses their, job over this," the building. Mint The Weather TIT Air Generally fair tonight . and Friday, little change in temperature. temp-erature. . Maximum temp. Wednesday . . S6 Minimum tempi. Wednesday . . 20 FIFTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 123 MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Roosevelt Foreign Policy is To Show Germany U. S. Means Business; Believes War Inevitable Unless Hit- , lef Is Scared By Preparedness; Prepared-ness; "Airplanes Talked" At Munich ; New Air Force Is Biggest Argument. WASHINGTON Most impor tant policy beine shaped in Wash intong today is that pertaining to foreign affairs. This has been discussed in a series of confiden tial conferences between the . president, Sumner Welles, Am bassadors Bullitt and Kennedy. It is safe to say that these talks . have been more important than -cabinet changes, Democratic squabbling tor preparations for the coming session of congress. The reports brought to Roosevelt Roose-velt by his ambassadors can be summarized briefly: 1 The Chamberlain appease ment policy is getting Britain no where. If the French and British are pushed further by Hitler they will have to fight. 2 They will be pushed further probably m the spring. Hitler al ways has timed bis moves care fully. Also he has made the Ger man people forget their economic woes by a series bf political victories vic-tories atheexpense of Germany's neighbors. So artother move will come soon. 3 Conclusion is that war seems almost certain in the spring or summer depending upon oae big IF. That one big IF is the United States and her future foreign policy. This is what Roosevelt and his advisers have been study ing so carefully in recent weeks. , KEY TO GERMANY Roosevelt foreign policy has taken as its key to the German military mind the famous meet ing of the Kaiser with his cabinet, in 1016. when he decided to in tensify submarine warfare against. American merchant shipping. At this meeting. Chancellor (Continued on Page Three) Lire. Henry Jones Called by Death Mrs. Anna LaVern Duncan Jones, 50, wife of D. Henry Jones, Pleasant View, died at the L. D. S. hospital in Salt Lake City. Wednesday evening. Mrs. Jones was taken to the hospital Saturday from her home, where she was stricken a few days previous. She was born Nov. 24, 1888. in Meadow, Millard county. Utah-She Utah-She was graduated from the B. Y. U. in 1906, and taught school at Millard county for two years prior to her marriage to Mr. Jones in the Manti temple, Dec. 16, 1909. The couple settled in Provo in 1910 and lived here until eight years ago when they moved to Pleasant View. While here Mrs. Jones was active ac-tive in church work, having served as secretary in the Fifth ward Primary association, also in the Manavu ward. Since living in the Edgemont ward she had been active in Relief society work, holding the office of counselor for two years and president for four years. Surviving are her husband, four daughters. Mrs. Elva Stew art. Los Angeles: Mrs. Olive Gil-J lesple. Mrs. Helen Hull and Miss Mary Beth Jones. Provo; one son. Jack Jones, Provo: six grandchildren; grandchil-dren; two brothers, Charles E. Duncan. Provo, and Jesse L. Duncan, Dun-can, Faimore: four half-sisters. Mrs. Lula Gull, Mrs. Joseph Edwards, Ed-wards, Mrs. Vanda Swallow, Meadow; and Mrs. A. E. Gull. Salt Lake City, and two half-brothers: half-brothers: D. W. Duncan, Long Beach, and J. C. Duncan, Meadow. Funeral services will be held at 1:3 o'clock Sunday in the Edgemont ward chapel with Bishop Bish-op Sharp Gillespie in charge. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary Saturday evening and at the borne Sunday prior to the aervicea Interment will . be in the - Provo City Burial park. UTAHtt ONLY DALLY 80UTH OF SALT LAJCE Cabinet-maker PRESIDENT WELCOMES THE NEWEST APPOINTEE TO OFFICIAL FAMILY " -, ', ' f i E' -i ' ' " ' j t f '" -, y' '''' 'ft ' f Xv X ? - Six IV r: V Although advance reports indicate Senate confirmation of Harry L. Hopkins, right, as secretary of commerce may not be smooth sailing, sail-ing, the rumored storm-clouds do not chill the warmth of President Roosevelt's congratulations to the new cabinet appointee. UTAHN'S DEATH IS MYSTERIOUS BOTHWELL, Utah. Dec. 29 ar.i!) Police were attempting to determine today whether possible gun shot wounds or burns caused death of Jehard Forsgren, 52-year-old Bothwell former, whose charred body was found in a ditch near here Tuesday. Forsgien's body was discovered nine hours after he left home to hunt rabbits. His discharged shotgun shot-gun lay a few feet from the body and undertakers discovered what may be a gunshot wound near the dead man's heart. Deputy Sheriff John M. Burt said the gun might have been accidentally discharged as Forsgren Fors-gren climbed a high barbed-wire fence. The officer said the gun shot might have ignited matches in Forsgren's pocket, starting the fire which burned the body. This Day . . . BORN Daughter to Eldon G. and Afton Vincent McKell, Wednesday afternoon after-noon at the Crane Maternity home. Daughter to Woodrow and Virgil Vir-gil Davis Thompson, this morning morn-ing at the Crane Maternity home. Son to Commissioner and Mrs. William J. Johnson, Dec. 24. Daughter to Orval L. and Annie An-nie James Harmer. Dec. 24. Daughter to Merrill and Agnes Markham Wood, Dec. 26. LICENSED TO MARRY Robert Lee Dunn, 22. Provo, and Nettie Elizabeth Halladay. 18, Kamas. Dell Christenscn. 19. Spanish Fork, and Mary Grace Barney. 16, Spanish Fork. William T. Macklin. American Fork, and Annie C. Hughes. Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake. DIED Mrs. Sena Jensen Zobell. 71, Lake View. Mrs. Rachel Thomas Cluff, in Los Angeles. Monday. Mrs. D. Henry Jones. 50, Pleasant Pleas-ant View; at the L. D. S. hospital. hos-pital. Wednesday. Mrs. Kenneth D. Craven. 38. at the L. D. S. hospital, Wednesday, TP5) JHe love Bo PROVO, and Product r EUwanis Officers To Be Installed At Hotel Banquet New officers of the Kiwanis tlub-will be installed at a banquet ban-quet of local club members and their partners at 7:30 this eve-ningx eve-ningx in Hotel Roberts. Governor George H. Lowe of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho district and other district officers will officiate. Allan D. Johnson is the new president; Clyde P. Crockett continues as first vice president; and J. W. Christensen Jr. is the new second vice president. Johnson John-son succeeds John O. Beesley, and Christensen follows Sol Jacobs. New directors will be: One-year One-year term, Dean Anderson. Dr. Stanley M. Clark, Dr. Frank T. Reynolds, C. H. Vance; two-year term, Walter S. Hedquist, Dr. M. W. Merrill, Henry D. Taylor. Retiring members of the directors' direc-tors' board are: Walter Adams, Allan D. Johnson, Dr. Lenard E. McKell. Mr. Vance will be master of ceremonies with John W. Mc Adam general chairman. A banquet and floor show is planned. Woman Injured in Automobile Crash Mrs. Jennie Ludlow, 50, Benjamin, Benja-min, suffered a badly bruised arm when the car in which she was riding with her husband, C. E. Ludlow, was hit broadside by another an-other near the Utah-Idaho Sugar factory on the Spanish Fork-Benjamin road last night. Both cars were badly damaged Deputy Sheriff Joseph Gourley reported. Mrs. Ludlow was treated treat-ed in a Spanish Fork hospital. Lehi Davis Hales. Spanish Fork youth, was driver of the other car. Mr. Gourley said the latter was traveling too fast to make the turn, it appeared. Bulletins LONDON, Dec. 29 (UEv Lloyd's announced today the ' British steamer Maronga had sent out an SOS call off Iviza Island in the Balearics, reporting it had been bombed and the crew had taken to the boats. - i w UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938 PROSPEROUS 1 939 SEEN BY 1 Year-End Survey Show Prospects Good For Continued Recovery Rv FRED BAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent (U.R) The government's chief economists, forecast a pros perous New Year for the na tion today, in a year-end sur-? of business conditions. The bureau of agricultural, economics, which charts trends in industrial as well as ag-' rirultural Droduction and con- si imntion. said orosoects were eood for continued recovery. The fall pick-up in industrial production produc-tion and consumer demand recov ered more than half of the ground lost in the 1937-38 depression, its survey said. Building Picks Up . The bureau reported a "marked pickup" in building activity and substantial increases in steel,; automobile and textile production,?! Factory payrolls have increased! and unemployment has decreasea according to Works Progress Ad-c mlnietraflAn an1 imeriran TTpfi- era. nun ji uauuracpviw. , "Consumer purchasing powe increased materially in recent months," the bureau said, "and some additional improvement is in prospect. However, no sensationally sensation-ally rapid advance should be expected ex-pected in the near future. "The rise in industrial production produc-tion that began last summer , has continued for six months, and considerably con-siderably more than half of the ground lost during the recession has been recovered.' Industrial production in November No-vember was above the 1923-25 average, according to latest reports. re-ports. The increase from the low point of last summer was said to be due principally to increases in consumer goods. The bureau said steel inventories inventor-ies have been built up and that the volume of output in iron and steel may decline some, although a resumption re-sumption of purchases by automobile automo-bile manufacturers and new buying buy-ing by railroads and the construction construc-tion industry should prevent any sharp drop. The general outlook, it concluded, conclud-ed, is for additional improvement in consumer purchasing power and demand for farm products in the near future. Prices for farm products were said to have declined de-clined less than seasonally in November. No-vember. The bureau predicted cash farm income this year would total $7,-625,000,000, $7,-625,000,000, a decline of $975,000.-000 $975,000.-000 from last year. This year's total will include $3,100,000,000 from crops, $4,025,000,000 from livestock and $500,000,000 from government benefit payments. Workers Alliance To Name Officers Nominations for officers will be made at the Workers' Alliance meeting Friday at 7:30 p. m. The new officers, who will be named in the election January 6, will serve six months. A public meeting will be sponsored spon-sored by the alliance , January 4 in the Third ward amusement hall to hear the report of Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, state alliance secretary, on recent wage hear ings in Washington, D. C. All interested putiic officials are especially invited. Mrs. Jorgensen was named "Mrs. Typical WPA" at Washington. Maynard to Sing Tonight, Friday Ted Maynard, . accomplished Provo vocalist, will sing tonight at the Hotel Ben Lomond , In Og-den Og-den at 6:30 on an hour and a half commercial radio program. At 8 o'clock he will be guest soloist on the KSL broadcast. He has also been engaged to .sing at the Hotel Utah Friday night. . ECONOMISTS Summoned vf 1 2: i i :-xS:-: i e MRS. GRACE B. CRAVEN Mrs. ft. D. Craven Claimed by Death At S. I. "ospital Mrs. Grace Bowen Craven, 39. wife of Kenneth D. Craven, died of a heart attack Wednesday evening eve-ning at the L. D. S. hospital in Salt Lake City. She had been ill for about a month. Mrs. Craven was born November Novem-ber 5, 1900, at Spanish Fork, a daughter of John E. and Mary Ann Christmas Bowen. She received re-ceived her education at the Spanish Span-ish Fork public schools. She has been an active L. D. S. church worker all her life. At the time of her death she was a counselor coun-selor in the First ward Primary association. She had served as president of the First ward Young Women's Mutual Improvement association as-sociation for three years 1932-4. She. married Kenneth D. Craven November 24, 1919. in Salt Lake City, and moved to Provo, where she had lived ever since. Surviving, besides her husband are two sons, Keith and John Craven, Cra-ven, Provo; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Bowen, Spanish Fork; three brothers, John E. Bowen, Jr., and George F. Bowen, both of Burley, Idaho, and David B. Bowen, Spanish Fork; two sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. Roy Creer, Spanish Fork, and Mrs. Morris Creer of Bancroft, Idaho. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the First ward chapel. Bishop Walter P. Whitehead will be in charge. Interment In-terment will be in the Provo city burial park, under the direction of the Deseret Mortuary. Youth Organization Will Meet Tonight The youth organization of the Workers Alliance will meet Thursday Thurs-day at 7:30 p. m at the home of Miss Melva Edwards, 650 West Fifth North. All youths are invited in-vited to attend. f 4 1 Depression Blamed For Mental Illness Rise RICHMOND, Va:, Dec. 29 LE A New York specialist on mental diseases today plamed the depression depres-sion for the unusual increase in the number of patients afflicted with Dementia praecox In 1929 and 1934. Dr. Benjamin Malzberg, of the New York State department of mental hygiene, told a symposium sympos-ium on mental. health at the annual an-nual meeting of the American Association for the advancement of science that uncertalneconomie conditions precipitated mental illness.. ill-ness.. He said that in 1929 the number of Dementia Praescox patients increased in-creased to 3.5 Rer cent of total Herald. FRENCH RUSH MORE TROOPS TO COLONIES Somaliland Garrisons To Be Reinforced With Troops PARIS, Pec. 29 (U.R) Two big French freighters were loaded secretly at special military docks at Marseille today as the government sped its plans to reinforce its garrison gar-rison in French Somaliland. Stevedores were ordered to work day and night so the ships, the 11,375 ton Sphinx and the 9,896 ton Chantilly, could sail Saturday and arrive at Djibouti, French Somaliland, next week. It was reported1 artillery and munitions would be loaded on the ships at night. All civilian cargo had been held up. In addition to its other cargo, the ships will carry, Senegalese riflemen who are to join French troops in Somaliland. The destroyer destroy-er Epervier and the dispatch boat D'Iberville already were under or ders to reinforce navy units there.' The government was understood to be; satisfied the measures it had taken were sufficient to deal with any 'situation which might arise in connection, with the Ital-s lan drive lor concessions irom Ftah'ce. 'T-- ' Diplomatically the" Italian situation situ-ation seemed to be clearing up. It was reported Andre Francois-Poncet, Francois-Poncet, ambassador to Rome, would come to Paris within the next week or so to report and receive re-ceive instructions in anticipation of the visit of Prime Minister Neville Ne-ville Chamberlain to Rome Jon. 11. A semi-official note said Premier Pre-mier Edouard Daladier and Foreign For-eign Minister Georges Bonnet would not try to see Chamberlain on his way to Rome because the French and British governments had been in continuous consultation consulta-tion all along. The newspaper Oeuvre said that Sir Eric Phipps, British ambassa- dor, had given assurances to Foreign For-eign Minister Bonnet that Chamberlain Cham-berlain would not attempt to set tle French-Italian differences at. Rome. N Auditor Report Printed Today The Utah county auditor's annual an-nual financial report for the year ending 1937 is presented in full in the second section of the Evening Eve-ning Herald today. The report was begun by E. Booth Sorenson of Lehi, who resigned re-signed during his term and whom Marcellus Nielson of Mapleton, succeeded in office. Departmental receipts and expenditures ex-penditures are listed in the tabulations, tab-ulations, as well as all county warrants for the year. Rotary Meeting . The Rotary club service committee' com-mittee' beaded by - M. Howard Graham will be in charge of the club program Friday at 12:15 p. m.. in Hotel Roberts. admissions to mental institutions. In. 1934, five years after the stock market crash and at the bottom of the depression, the number Increased to 11 per cent, he said. . Malzberg, In discussing the cause of this spread fci a disease characterized by loss of mental equilibrium, attributed it to loss of employment of financial losses. He contended the economic situa tion ' was an importnat factor in mental makeup- that sudden fin ancial . reverse icreased nervous reaction to various stimulr lead ing, in many cases, to an un balanced mind and to partial or total-loss of thought and reason. COMPLETE UNITED fKESa UDTOD LMtfH mCtXTmtl TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE XV1UU II TU X. C 1939 City Budget Approved; Levy to Stay 17.5 Mills Reduction of $35,769 Provided in Budget As Finally Approved At Hearing; Taxpayer Tax-payer Representatives Speak Provo city budgeted expenses during 1939 were today set at $225,350, following a public hearing attended by about 40 taxpayer representatives meeting with the city commission. Only change from the budget announced yesterday was to add $900 to the health fund to insure two public health urses rather than just one in the city next year. Estimated revenues remain the same, $227,900; this leaves $2,500 unappropriated, un-appropriated, reported City Auditor Mary F. Smith. Tax revenue estimates were fli Budget Message i r Gives Finance Picture In a 10-page mimeographed budget message, Mayor Anderson presented a financial picture - to the group of business men and others' present for the 1939 budget hearing . today. Included in it he said,. "So far WfMt-prdjecta have been" financed by Provo City without increasing the general obligation debt - . . the city can carry' on one more year with such a program without with-out issuing any general obligation bonds but beyond that I am sure the city will be obliged to go in debt if sufficient work is sponsored sponsor-ed to keep all' WPA workers at work as we have done through the past three years. . . "We have received approximately approximate-ly $5.45 in federal money for each $2.75 of local money spent on relief projects . . . the local money has come from the sale of special improvement bonds, the general fund, waterworks revenues, the state auto license fund and cash contributions from property owners own-ers "In addition to a net reduction of $40,000 in general - obligation bonds in three years we have also accumulated sufficient surplus in the guarantee fund to pay off $25,000 in general obligation bonds sold in 1934 to rehabilitate the special improvement guarantee fund. ... "Special improvement bonds outstanding in 1932 totaled $186,-175. $186,-175. Special improvement bonds now outstanding total $149,983, a decrease of approximately $36,000 for the six-year period in spite of the enormous improvement program. pro-gram. (This program is valued at $1,000,000; includes street pav- ( Continued on Page Eight) LEGISLATION PLANS DRAWN SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Dec. 29 OLE) The Utah State Association Associa-tion of counties will name a com mittee next week to work with representatives of the State Municipal league in coordinating legislative demands as first step in proposed liaison to fight centralization cen-tralization of the functions of government in the hands of the state. Decision to name tbe legislative committee was reached after a proposal officials 'unite to resist further absorption of cities and counties functions by the state was advanced at a meeting of the association of counties held here last n&ht with representatives representa-tives of the Municipal League and of the Utah State Press association asso-ciation in attendance. J. R. Jarvts, Salt Lake county treasurer, was named chairman of the legislative coordination committee. com-mittee. The members will be named next week. Elks To Meet Elks will bold their regular lodge meeting at 8 p. nx, evening in the halL this By Mayo Herald Service If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call the Herald office 495. before 7 p. m. week days, and 10 a. m. Sundays, and a copy wd be delivered to you. maae on tne same mniage levy rfMt "a - The approved budget shows an expense total of $35,769 less than this year's, as it will be revised Saturday noon in a public hearing with the city commission. Noting that "the average general gener-al fund expenditure for the 10-year . period is $189,622" in the city, M. H. Harris, secretary of Utah Taxpayers' Tax-payers' association and representing represent-ing also the chamber of commerce budget committee, urged that the budget be so adjusted so to -"not exceed a minor increase over the,, Yerage. coak- during aupsftst. ld years, or a total of $200,000.' . Mayor Mark Anderson pointed but that the budget includes expense ex-pense based upon an expected $10,-000 $10,-000 return from the state on motor vehicle tax apportionment and another an-other $10,000 which is advanced by the city to special improvement district but which is repayable. Thus, he indicated, the new city budget is not very far above the $200,000 mark in terms of revenue raised generally in the city. Asked by City Auditor Smith where he would cut the proposed figures, Mr. Harris noted he had received the budget but yesterday. yester-day. However, he proposed that the city cemetery rates be so adjusted ad-justed so as to make that department depart-ment self-supporting. Commissioner Jesse Haws replied re-plied that burial charges next year will be increased from $6 to $8, and from $8 to $10, thus aiding in department self-sufficiency. No change was suggested in the waterworks budget which as approved ap-proved provides for expenses of $62,030 with revenues estimated at $71,850, and leaving $9,820 unappropriated. unap-propriated. The provision for an additional nurse appropriation was made by Superintendent J. C. Moffitt of Provo school district, City Physician Physic-ian Dr. Charles M. Smith, and Public Health Director Dr. Lloyd. N. Farner. The city appropriation will aid in replacing federal funds : which previousfy paid the bill. "We find much to comment; the management of the city has been conservative," Mr. Harris said in addressing Mayor Anderson and Commissioners J. P. McGuire and Jesse Haws. He pointed out that while Salt Lake City and Ogden recently had increased their Indebtedness In-debtedness at a "tremendous" rate Provo had kept its debt down, although al-though making many improvements. improve-ments. Bob Burns Says HOLLYWOOD: The Duke football foot-ball team is a practicin' out her for the Rose Bowl game. It's ' rumored, since Duke ain't let arty team score on 'em this season, that Southern California up. and. slipped one of the royal family into their line-up. They intend to put one over on Duke by goln over the goal line with a Coast. It's gettin' now so footbalTs a year-around sport and rye been a wonderln why it's so gosh dura ; popular. The Idea's Jes hit me that most people are kickin' about somethin'-all the time and thy probably go to the football game . to get It out'n- their hides .by, rcotin' tor the fclayers to kick the :v stuffln's out -each other. That's a lot easier and less painful than -gettin' kicked in the teeth them-;-selves r -i V (Copyright, 1938 for the Herald) if - a 1. ::; r.:. r ? 1 |