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Show - v r 1 . ) TkoTZcztkcT UTAH: Generally fair, 'little change In temperature Sunday. J lax. temp., St-irday C5 MIn. temp., Saturday 18 VOL. 17, NO. 22 G " T1 'Old and Young: to Joinjn Merry 'Making as Provo Hails Return of Patron Saint; Free Candy Promised for Kids Fresh from headquarters at the North Pole, Santa Claus comes to Provo Monday for the official Christmas opening in the downtown, business district. ' - . : - He is expected here early Monday to ride on a special float in the parade which will march on Center street from Fifth West promptly at 6:30 p. m: ' l' V :" - ' ; ' , r:i Thousands of colored lights will blink in the season when they are turned on by Mayor Mark "Anderson in the do wn- town district : immediately pre MERRY 'A GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Goin On in National Affairs Ey DREW PEARSON and EOBEUT S. AIXEN Ned Bruce, Leader of U. S. Art Renaissance All Tan- gled in Red Tape; FDR Gives IL'm Moral Support As He Offers To Resign Federal Art Job; Brought About New Deal for Artists Working" On Government Buildings; Old-Timers in Bureaucratic Procurement Division Aiming To Oust Him. ,- ... ' (Editor's Note: The Washington Wash-ington ' Merry - Go - Round's faraous Eras King" is tendered ten-dered this ' week to Edward Bruce, CO, the Government's expert on fine art.) - WASHINGTON -r-; Several daj's ago Franklin Roosevelt and Edward "Ned" 'ErmreT visited the Corcoran Art Gallery, together, Inspecting, about 450 paintings and works of sculpture designed for federal buildings by artists all over the country. Afterwards, the President remarket re-market that it was ."one of the most Interesting exhibits", he had. ever seen, and that "it reflected the spirit of . the average Amer? lean. The President i3 an art iover and genuinely felt -what he said. ' - , But that was not the real reason rea-son Tie attended . the exhibit. Real , reason was because he wanted .to boost hi3 -friend. Ned Bruce -and Bruce'a work of car rying the spirit of the New Deal to forgotten artUts. Not many people besides the President know it, but BrucCS resignation is on the desk of W. E. Reynolds, director of the Procurement Division, in which Bruce has done an ourstanding (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 25 OLE) Orin M. Wintle, 19, Sandy house mover, died last night from injuries suffered when he ' was knocked from the roof-top of a house he was moving by low power lines. ; Riding atop the house as it was moving, a wire caught Wintle Win-tle under the chin. He clung to the wire for a . moment, dropped drop-ped onto the top of an automobile automo-bile which was following The house, and crashed through the machine's windshield. . - . Utah Wins Praise From Dangerfield Utah is one of the scenic highlights high-lights of the American continent in the opinion of George Danger-field. Danger-field. British born author and critic who spent Wednesday in Provo and vicinity following his appearance on the Brigham Young university's lecture series Tuesday Tues-day night. MrJ Dangerfield said that his first visit to Utah was a revelation in scenic grandeur. He visited the B. Y. U. Alpine campus at Aspen Grove, traveled around the scenic loop highway in Provo and American Fork canyons, and skirted the shore of Utah lake, which he described "as an American Amer-ican Galilee. A special luncheon was arranged arrang-ed for the visiting, author at noon by Professor Carl E. Young, who studied at Oxford near the same time that Mr. Dangerfield wa3 a student there. HOUSE .WING DMUGS DEATH UTAH 3 ONLY DA FLY SOUTH OF SAX.T LAKE MUSliEiiiaS ceding -the parade. , . Crowds Expected ' Some 25,000 people will line the. streets to see Santy lead the parade ' Which will include 23 -units: Bands from' Franklin and Timpanogos grade schools; Dixon and Farrer . junior hlgns ; Provo and - Lincoln high schools, and Brigham Young university. Floats Lincoln . high -school, Provo high school'girls and boys' organisations, B. Y. high, junior jun-ior high, B. Y. senior high, Sharon Shar-on school, Joaquin school, Timpanogos Tim-panogos school, Dixon high, Franklin school, Maeser school, and the ; following Provo high clubs: debate, photo, home economics,. eco-nomics,. - dramatic, commercial and bouncers. Others 100 costume characters, charac-ters, r. Farrer junior high bicycle unit, and Lakeview, Timpanogos and Maeser marching units. The routed for the marchers wiU'takefthe parade along Center Cen-ter street from " Fifth West to University avenue, north to First North, east to First East, then to Center street where the units will break up. - Free Candy Kags. Following the parade, free candy distribution to the kiddies will be made on' the lawns east of the city and county building. . Christmas music will be broadcast! broad-cast! . over ,. .ftfa tion. IL&VQ, relayed over the city business district by radios placed in front of -stores by the merchants. Several Sev-eral ' stores are;. planning open houses during, the evening. The special yuletide music will start a t - 6 p. , - m., ; from Provo high, where a group , of high school singers .will . . assemble for a KOVO broadcast. : . To - handle - the crowds in the business j district, police and sheriff officers have . asked as sistance from CCC and national guard- groups. Parade watchers are asked to cooperate by keeping keep-ing out of the path of the marchers, ; . , . - . All - business firms of the' city are urged to decorate their establishments es-tablishments for Monday's opening, open-ing, according to W. C. LaBrache, general chairman. il. lea QornQro The application of A. Lee Romero, Ro-mero, Pleasant,: Grove plumber, for commutation of, sentence, was denied this week by the board of pardons. "Romero who was sentenced sen-tenced to serve 10 years In the state prison on a manslaughter charge. for the. killing of his wife's mother, Mrs. Sena Baxter, has served nine years and is 'subject to release next year. The pardon was opposed by Romero's wife who told the members of the board she feared, violence -at-Romero's hands,- should he be released.- at this time: - - - . -A To South American Traveler Lectures Here Monday Night ' Bringing; the history, romance, drama and present-day. political conflicts of - the South American countries to Provo, Edward Tom-linson, Tom-linson, ' foremost interpreter of New World affairs, will come to the Provo tabernacle, Monday night, November 27, where he will speak, on "The Other Americas." Amer-icas." - . . Mr Tomlinson takes his audiences audi-ences on. a verbal tour of the South American countries. ' All the dangers and thrills of that neighbor continent become the experience . of the listening audience. audi-ence. Through the cattle grazing lands of Argentina, the Andes mountains, and many other scenic portions of South America, Edward Ed-ward Tomlinson guides the North American populace toward ' adventure. ad-venture. The relationship of the other Americas to the political situation situa-tion in the United States receives : "(Continued on Pa e Three) - t r t-- -. .rvAv.w.v...... , . . . . . ........... .....-- , t : ","rr"2!rC- PROVO, 1 Wyoming Converts BYU Fumble Into Touch- : down to Tie " LARAMIE, Wyo., Nov. 25 (U.R) Wyoming university's luckless Big. Seven conference confer-ence football team ended , the 1939 season with an average of 1000 today 'despite an upset up-set '7. to .7 tie in a final game with Brigham Young univer-sity's univer-sity's highly favored Cougars. . The.' upset -left B. Y. U. with a season's record of . five 'wins, one defeat andltwo- ties. Ties do not count in Big Seven standings and Brigham 'Young now has no chance to' finish better than third : . BIG SEVEN STANDING W'L T - Pet. Colorado U ... . ...4 1 0 .800 Utah ...4 1 1 3 3 4 1 f utuvcr .....( 1 1 1 0 .75W .500 .400 .833 Brigham Young . Utah State :.2 Colorado State ....2 Wyoming ......... .0 5 1" .000 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Brigham Young 7, Wyoming 7. in the circuit.; 'It was the first time Wyoming had not lost a game by a lopsided score , this year. ' Converts Fumble Brigham Young's score came in the second period. Wyoming evened the game in the closing minutes. -: . '.. .., A lightning break paved the way for the tie. Gary Landman, substitute Wyoming back, pounced poun-ced on a B. Y. U. fumble and galloped- 44 yards for a touchdown touch-down without a; hand being laid on him. King , converted to tie the score. . ' 'V '. '. A shivering crowd of 1,500 saw Brigham Young score earlier Tin a bruising T4-ys.rd . drive with HaShy" George" WSn.-'baeXlun- ' ing into pay dirt from the goal line. Chipman converted. - ;- Brigham Young was within 12 yards of another score when the game ended. Jackson fell under a tackier on the. 12 after a long pass as the gun sounded. Wyoming missed two scoring chances. The v Cowboys . : f um bled on . the 10 in - the . first period after af-ter Fullback George : Dorrington's pass had set up ' a 70-yard gain. , WvominEr ran arainst a .brick wall H. Y. U. line in the fourth and' lost. t.h nail on downs on ! the one-foot line. ' . f ' . ". The lineups: B. Y. U- : , Wyoming Weenig ..... ; . .le. ... - Patterson Leavitt ...at...'....; Lack Gilbert ,.T...Ag 7 Miner Blackham x . e ..... . Fordyce Lewis , ...rg. ... Dueweke Bateman . . . I, .rt . . ... Bradbard Reeve ... ... , ;re. . . Sturm an K. J Jensen ....... qb . . ; Dorrington Brink '. .. .lh Shrum Chipmah ' ... . . . . rh ..... . White Devitt ...r.::., f. V.. Thorpe Officials: Rereree, Vidal; umpire, um-pire, Hines; linesman, MacDoug all; field judge, Whipple. Score by periods: -B. Y. U. ... . . . . . .0 7 0 07 Wyoming . .7. , . ..0 0 0. 77 . Scoring: B. . Y. U. Touchdown Touch-down Wing, point after touchdown, touch-down, Chipman. i Wyoming Touchdown, Landham, Pat King. WAR OULLETItJS LONDON, Nov. 25 (UJ? Air raid alarms were sounded to-, to-, night in the Oa&leji islands , when a large group of planes tas sighted flying near land. i ' 7-7 m UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1939 Film Labor LeSclar Surrenders -r William Bioff (left) shown as he surrendered ' to police in Los Angeles, An-geles, after an orderf or his arrest had been issued by Chicago authorities auth-orities on ; an old charge of panderingl With Bioff is his - attorney Michael Luddy (right). The Hcdlywood section of the Internationa, Alliance cf Theatrical Stage Employees, headed ' by Bioff, - prepared to go ahead with the strike threatened last week In spite of Bioffs arrest, if negotiations with '' tiva 1 motion picture producers- fell through. , . : : " " : Film Strike : Averted 'By ' Wage Raise HOLLYWOOD, Calif.," Nov. 25 (U.R) William Bioff, . leader of the American Federation of Labor studio stu-dio workers, .announced; after -a meeting . today; that Hollywood "producers had agreed to raise wages 10 per cent and that a threatened ' strike which would have closed -the studios and t! hatlbhs. theaters, would' not.'Kej'landT'"" place. . - Strike Called Off . ; Theannounement by Bioff that the strike had been called off came as 20 leaders of the various studio unions wefe meeting, above a tire store to formulate plans to call the strike As they were -planning a: strike that would take the producers -by surprise, Bioff was called to the telephone and Joseph Schenck, president of the Producers association, associa-tion, informed him the producers had. agreed - to , all ; the tunion . demands. de-mands. - -7 The union, affiliated with the international Alliance of Theatrical Theatri-cal stage employes, had demanded flat 10 per cent wage increase for about 23,000. workers, mostly carpenters, painters, and those responsible re-sponsible for erecting sets on sound stages The producers had claimed they could not afford the wage increases increas-es because of the curtailment of foreign " markets due to the war In Europe. 1 ' : ' . Government Buys 16 More Carloads Of Onions Here Purchase of 15 or 16 carloads of onions in Utah county was authorized Saturday by the Surplus Sur-plus Commodities, corporation, County Agent S. R. Boswell . was advised. This makes the third allotment granted to Utah county, coun-ty, by the federal authorities, with a total of 38 carloads '.ai; ready shipped from this county by this agency. The onions are , distributed dis-tributed by ' the corporation through the new food stamp? setup, set-up, in operation in more than, a score of cities including Salt Lake City. '. ' ; ' Grdwers who wish to get their share of the allotment are advised ad-vised to make- application Monday Mon-day morning at the county agricultural agri-cultural office in the city ' and county building in Provo. ;' 20-30 Boys Plan ; Christmas Party Christmas party plans were made Friday at the regular weekly week-ly meeting of (Twenty-Thirtians. Plans were also formulated for the district convention which is to be held in Provo. L. D. Hessel and Frank J. Earl of the Standard Oil company showed show-ed moving -pictures on oil refining:.. refin-ing:.. '; ., . MISSING SHIP SIGHTED WASinNGTON, Nov. 25 IE : The coast guard reported today that the two-masted pleasure schooner Pinta, reported missing off the North Carolina coast, had been sighted apparently la fta r.se ! cf assistance. - ' (brmans Qhirn Dombrs Elii Pour pritisli Uoroliips' ; ' . ' ,, ' :,. . BERLIN, Nov. 25 (TIE) The Germans announced of ficially tonight to-night that: German bombers had scored "hits on four British warships war-ships in the North sea today. ..The . . announcement said the German ; aerial attack occurred 00 ' kilometers (about 550 miles) north of the German coast. That would be off - the coast: of Scot- ' "A German bomber squadron today made several bombing attacks at-tacks upon 'British warships . in the northern North sea, 900 r kilometers kil-ometers from the German north seacoast,'V the "announcement said. It -was - unmistakably ofcserv- ed that four - British warships received direct v hits. Despite . the extremely . ' heavy anti-aircraft fire, all of ' the German planes returned home unharmed."- J- IB U1UWV 0 sS for Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. ; Lottie Lot-tie F.' Eldred, 60, wife of L. J. Eldred, will be held Tuesday at 1:30 . p. m., in the Fourth ward chapel. ,with, Bishop Victor. J. Bird in 'charge.. - Friends . may call at the Hatch-Quist Hatch-Quist mortuary Monday and Tuesday, prior. - to the services. Interment will . be .in ' the Provo City burial park: .. ' Mrs. Eldred died Friday at LOTTIE F. ELDRED the home, CS North First West street, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She worked with her husband for many years in operating the Eldred Amustment company and traveled with him throughout the intermountain country. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred turned the business overto Monte Young of Provo. cor,cirm:r: jrcrrs , The Utah county, infantile paralysis pa-ralysis fund committee met Friday Fri-day with Dr. W.Woolf , of Provo, county chairman, in charge. Also atethding were Victor J. Bird and Velma Her-dszhaMcf Provo, and l;. A. Kir:: cf TIzz.z2.tX Grove. . i,.. wmJ t. .m.jj..ji.iii. in.ii i . I " .S ... tfA:-: '-.::x.:.:.:.. . . . ' I man nrr m 11 .mm bv, Accused By Germany of Usiruj "Q-Boats" in - War, On Subs - :" '' By UNITED TIlESS"- "" . ' First official claim in the war that Great Britain has revived her World war antisubmarine anti-submarine tactics by using Q-boats heavily armed but innocent appearing merchant ships disguised as neutrals-came neutrals-came from the Berlin high command today. A German communique said a Nazi U-boat, "in the area of submarine sub-marine operations," had destroyed a British Q-boat or submarine trap, whose armaments had been concealed. This time, the communique com-munique said, the Q-boat was disguised dis-guised as a Dutch ship. Claims From Berlin The communiquevclalmed also a submarine had destroyed a 1,000-ton 1,000-ton British naval auxiliary vessel. : Those claims from Berlin were countered . by assertions in reliable reli-able private quarters in London that the , British had captured a German submarine while it was making an audacious. attempt to enter the Firth of Clyde, on the southwest coast of Scotland. It was believed it was the same U-boat U-boat which last " month entered Scapa Flow and . torpedoed the British battleship Royal Oak. The British for the moment concenerated. on meeting the menace men-ace of German mine warfare. The admiralty, after disclosing that on Thursday it had been necessary to partially close the port of London Lon-don while the Thames estuary was swept clear of mines, called for volunteers - to assist in widespread wide-spread mine-sweeping operations. The British admit to the loss of 58,692 ' tons of. - naval vessels and 286,563 tons of merchant shipain the first3u43ysof- the war. These figures 'do not include in-clude 51,000 tons of British .naval vessels immobilized from acUve service by German submarines and planes., ; ,. '. .. : Neutrals, Protest-- . ; I, -Z' ' Decision of the Allies to retaliate retali-ate against - German mine-sowing1 operations by extending" their economic eco-nomic warfare to German exports, brought a storm of protests from neutral nations. The Netherlands and Belgium, which protested" first, were joined by Japan, Italy, U S. and Sweden, and it was expected ex-pected Norway and Denmark soon would protest that to blockade German exports is illegal, v Both sides reported that the western front, where weather conditions con-ditions became worse, - was relatively rela-tively quiet. ; The Germans said there was minor patrol and artillery artil-lery activity. . . The French said about the same, except they claimed to have repulsed two German Ger-man patrols and to have taken four German prisoners. There was more excitement in London ; and Birmingham than there was on1 the western front. Bombs, exploding at two-hour in tervals and believed to have been set by the outlawed Irish republican repub-lican army, injured several persons per-sons In London and Birmingham, and caused widespread neighborhood neighbor-hood alarms because the people had feared that German planes had dropped a load of bombs. Tins-. Day BORN ' ' Boy, to Mr. and Mrs.1 Murray Lund, Utah Valley hospital, Saturday. Sat-urday. ' Girl, to John B. and Virginia Jones Prior, Saturday at the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Biff Jones.'- Boy, to Martin and Valera Dixon Ririe, Thursday, at the' Bergesen Maternity home in Lewiston, Utah. Boy, to Neldon and Lola Cox Smoot, Thanksgiving ' day, L. D. 8. hospital in Salt Lake City. 1000 Kiddies Bring Truckload ; Of Toys to Christmas Matinee Fire chief Scott Thompson has turned painter! And there are eight other Provo firemen, who are busy, too. For Saturday, more than 1000 kiddies exchanged used toys for show tickets tick-ets at the Paramount. The 2000 toys, for some children brought several, were hauled to the fire department where Chief Thompson and his aids started salvaging sal-vaging and painting. There will be plenty of work to go around; for instance. Fireman Carl Loveless Love-less takes care '.cf its dolls, ths 9 M Jfc COMPLHTn UNITED PIIKKI TEiaKuiiApn new a EEiivica It5 aim Jiy Civile Family Which Left Provo in March Wiped Out in Slaying .Tragedy; Circumstances Indicate Deed Premeditated SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 25 U.R) A Salt Lake City father gassed, strangled and shot his wife and three children this morning and then took his own life. The father, 31-year-o!d Grant Wentz, was found in the midst of a Macabre death scene a .22 caliber rifle by his side, a bullet through his head, and his family dead in their beds. Sheriff s officers said the children had apparently been strangled by a clothes line, beaten with a hammer, and shot., Officers.also found gas in the home turned on but unlit. Besides Wentz, the dead included his wife, Afton Wentz, 27; his daughters, Dalene 7, Marie G, and Barth Former Orem Resident ' Wentz was a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Frank Wentz of Orem, and his wife was Afton Angus Wentz, daughter of 11 r. and Mrs. George Angus of 270. South Ninth West street, : ; ? Provo. They lived on the Vtr.tz Two Families Plunged Into Dee Sorrow f;Two" grief-stricken families in Provo and Orem mourned ; the untimely deaths of a son, a daughter and grandchildren, Saturday Sat-urday in the Salt Lake City five-death five-death tragedy. At the T. Frank Wentz home in Orem, the staggering news, almost impossible to believe, found both Mr. and Mrs. Wentz already ill. , Prostrated with grief they have been kept bedfast since the first word of. the death of Grant, his wife and children, had reached the home. Mr. and Mrs. Angus and their children were stunned by the news that their daughter and husband and their three grandchildren grand-children were dead. Mrs. Angus bore "up bravely under the' shock, trying to minimize her own loss while - her, heart ached in grief for the family of ; her son-in-law. Grant .Wentz, was born July 1, 1906, the son of T. Frank and Lydia Farley Wentz of Orem. He attended attend-ed the Spencer grade school and later entered the 'Lincoln high school and Sharon stake seminary. He attended the Logan high school one year. , At the age of 22 he entered the U. S. naval service, but was honorably honor-ably released two years later. Following his marriage to Afton Angus of Provo on March 16, 1932, he became associated with his father in the poultry and fruitgrowing fruit-growing business on the Wentz farm, west of .the Snow Station on the Orem line.- Move to Salt Lake . " Last March the family moved to Salt Lake City where they had (Continued on Page Three) Eight Galls loop- Firemen Busy Provo firemen have not spent all their time hanging Christmas lights during the past week, reports re-ports show. . - . The firemen have answered eight calls since November 22. Sparks on roofs of residences were the origin of two; calls. Only $5 damage was reported. Saturday morning after firemen had extinguished extin-guished sparks at the . home of LaMar Hart, 382 East Fifth North street.' -' ; A similar call, to the home of Roy Sabey, . 465 North Second West street, Friday, .was annwered promptly and only $5 damage was reported. . , A grass fire, which threatened several buildings in the area of Ninth East and Second South was extinguished Thursday morning. morn-ing. v Five other alarms answered showed no damage done. The calls were turned in because of a broken brok-en steam pipe, a broken furnace coil and hot ashes. chief and Bert Kirkwood paint the wagons, and' Firemen Clarence Clar-ence Duke, Frank Taylor, Glen Clark, Frank Cole, Lloyd Dickson and Dean Muhlstein take care cf general repair duties. Necessary paint and materials Is furnished by the Provo Liens Club, when the toys are all completed, com-pleted, just before Christrna3 day, they will be distributed throughout through-out the city to needy boys and girls, thanks to Chief Scott -and his firemen, LIon3 club and Paramount Para-mount t&eater. Call Tlie Herald If you ! not recrlv your Ils r: M promptly, rail TTo lit rai t t-.T.. 4I, before 7 I, m. wk .t-3 , ii:: J 10 a ra. Sundays, ami a tpy PRICE FIVS CENTS farm In Orem untU last It-.rc:, when they went to Salt Lake, where they operated a lunch etar.d "Inn-Stead," at 2S27 South JHate street, between Murray and Bait Lake City. The murder and suicide was discovered dis-covered by Ming Toy Franc 1: 9, 12, an employe in the lunchroom operated by Wentz, when sho came to work this morning. Tho story told by Mlsa Franche indicated indi-cated the slayings were premeditated, premedi-tated, police said. She said Wentz had told her to take the night off last nlht, apparently ap-parently to allow him time to commit the murders. Wentz was believed to have gone completely berserk. A bloody hammer gave evidence of tl " bludgeoning before he garrott i them. Finally he shot them, ar.d then turned on the gas. Wentz's body was etlll warm when the coroner arrived. Misa Franche said the Eensnl something was wrong" v. ten ho smelled gas as ehe entered lh lunchroom this morning. Che mw the body of &14rie on a couch, eavl Mrs. Wentz dead In her bedroom. She ran to a nearby gas elation to call police. Sheriffs officers hndt to turn off the gas from an outside out-side valve before they could enter the apartment, above the lunchroom. lunch-room. There they found Wentz on V i floor, and the other children in their twin beds. Except for the marks on tha children, officers said that they found no evidence indicating that a struggle took place. Police were at a loa? for a motive, mo-tive, particularly since neighbors said everything , was apparently going well with the family. They attempted to reconstruct U. slaying from blta of evidence picked up at the death scene, tr. I to find any employes or customers who had been in the lunchroom late last night. No Inquest was deemed necessary neces-sary by the acting coroner Justice Jus-tice Of the Peace Arthur Ii. IJring-hurst IJring-hurst who gave the verdict as "quadruple murder, mulclde." No possible motive for the crime (Continued on Page Three)) IKS TO STAGE CHARITY OALL The thirty-sixth annual Christmas Christ-mas charity ball of the IJ. V. O. Elks Lodge, No. B49, will be held December 0, according to Chairman Chair-man S. I. Levin. Funda from the ball, one cf the oldest of Its kind in America, go to help defray expenses cf the annual Yuletide party htld cn Christmas day for the underprivileged under-privileged children. The public la invited to attend, fiaii Mr. Levin.. 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