OCR Text |
Show , - . r - - - Call Tlic Ilcnzhl If you d not receive your I! promptly, call The l: n-M . :. before 7 . m. w k days, r 10 a nu Sumtlays, and a copy y, Ix delivered to ymi. The TVeathei UTAH: Generally fair Sunday. Maximum temp,, Saturday ... CO Minimum temp, Saturday ... 85 VOL. 17, NO. 24 UTAH'S ONL.T DAILY SOUTH OF SALT UKQ PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939 cowPLsrrr: united pnerfl TEIJSQItAPn NKW3 gERVICH PRICE FIVE CENTS Beautiful First Ward L D. S. el Ready For Dedication o A 1:1 I I Ml Chap j Y BY THE EDITOR The Utah County Safety Council to be organized right soon will have plenty of work to do right from the start. If you don't believe it, just look at the traffic record of all the counties in the state and find out whereUtah countv stands. With 21, deaths already chalked up against us this year, and better than 20 days still to go, we are already doomed to finish 1939 far worse than last year, when 18 were killed in Utah county traffic accidents. It will probably be the first job of the new Safety Council to proceed with a careful and comprehensive study of the traffic problem in this county, .with a particular emphasis on finding, why the record is so much blacker than in the sister sis-ter counties of Salt Lake and Weber, both of whom have had fewer fatalities this year .than in 1938. It isn't going to be an easy job. No one can put his finger right on any one trouble spot. Many factors enter in. and the entire problem will have to be analyzed in the light of modern traffic engineering and education. There should be forthcoming, forthcom-ing, however, a number of speci fic recommendations looking towards an improvement improve-ment in 1940 along the line Df traffic safety in Utah county. There is food for thought in the statement that in 80 per cent of our traffic accidents, acci-dents, liquor is involved. WKafTire'e"" going ' to : do about that? . - - . . . . While you are around town doing your Christmas . shopping, shop-ping, don't forget to put some of your small change in those milk bottles placed " by the Lions, club for the benefit'df the Christmas toy fund. a The firemen are'doing their part torepair the toys for Christmas distribution, but it takes rkoney to buy the paint and other material used in the shop. You can do your part, too, if you "Donate a dime to kiddies, kid-dies, Christmas time." T" ..--MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of Whftt'a .Going On in National Affain ' - E DHEW PSAESON wad 3. AXI-EJf X (EDITOR'S NOTE : The Vahlngton Merry-Go-Roond's Brass-JUng, good for one free riJe, 1 awarded this week to Audrey Williams, National Youth Ami nlstrator,. I WASHINGTON To some 4,-000,000 4,-000,000 youths in every state in the Union the most important New Dealer in Washington is a tall, lantern-jawed Alabaman whose career has been as varied and romantic ro-mantic as a Horatio Alger hero's. As head of the National Youth Administration, it is the job of Aubrey Williams to give these unemployed, un-employed, out-of -school boys and glrLs a chance to work so they can learn a trade or complete their education. He is a crucial influence on young lives. But also al-so he Is no stranger to adults. As Deputy WPA Administrator under Harry Hopkins, Williams strongly, humanistic views sometimes some-times made him the butt of bitter political controversy. He has been singed and scorched by many a tirade; Yet, no New Dealer has' more and warmer friends in the political arena. v Last summer' the - National Youth Administration was one of the few agencies to emerge unscathed un-scathed from the congressional economy ax. When the house appropriations committee slashed the NYA budget bud-get to $31,000,000, members of all li "jans joined in restoring the figtrre to $100,000,000 on the floor of the chamber. :The same thing happened in the senate. Supported by leading educators and newspapers newspa-pers all over the country, the NYA wai saved from the chopping-( chopping-( Continued on Page S, Sec. Two; mm- to BE SUMO BY B.Y. 0. GROUP Oral orio Performance ' ' Slated Tonight in ' Tabernacle Here Traditional "observance of the Christmas season will be carried out tonight "when Handel's: immortal oratorio, "The Messiah," will be pro duced in the tabernacle by the Brigham Young univers ity choruses, glee clubs, and orchestra, tonight' at 7:30.; This is an annual event eagerly looked forward to by students and townpeople alike. In order to give every one an opportunity to hear the celebrated oratorio, all Sunday evening meetings meet-ings - in both the Utah and the Provo stakes have Been cancelled. Directors of the oratorio are Dr. Franklin Madsen, Dr. Florence Jenoerson Madsen, and Professor LeRoyJ. Robertson. J. J. Keeler Is organist, Loa Mathews, Beulah Madsen, Geneva Wilson. and Gertrude, v Harder, pianists. Professor Gustave Buggert' is director of, cellos and basses, and Katherine Morrell . concert mas ter. - . v , , v ; . Nearly every one is familiar with. the oratorio,-which i3 pro duced during the holiday season throughout the world. -The music was composed by .George Freder ick Hendel, September 14, 1741. The text is selected from, the scriptures. -v .. I , i;i Most famous of the oratorio is the celebrated "HaUelujahchorus during therendItIonJ of "which the auaience usually stands. As in vformer years, the solo parts, will be sung by groups in unison," rather than- by imported soloists. This is considered a fine innovation in music circles, from the standpoint of. performer traln- ( continued on PageTwo) . 1 PS fl I m wiw Convention Set :. - Young men and women ; asso ciated in the M Men .and Gleaner girl activities In . the Utah U D. S. stake will meet with invited church officials and parents in a 'convention Tuesday night- at College hall. . v " - : Talks on "Courtship" and Marriage," Mar-riage," - will be given' byElder Richard R. Lyman of the Council of Twelve and his wife, Mrs. Amy Brown Lyman. A mosaic,5 depicting depict-ing in beautiful pageantry the life of a Latter-day Saint youth engaged en-gaged in the M. I. A. program, will follow the . talks. . - Woodrow Washburn - will give the scriptural reading. Music will be by J. J. Keeler, organist; Utah stake M Men's 'quartet, Farrel Madsen, director. Parents of the young people, members of the ward bishoprics and ward , M. I." A, . presidencies will be special guests, v - A dance will follow in the Women's Wo-men's gym at 9:30 p. m. according to Mrs. Delia Loveridge, stake Gleaner girl supervisor. -, Wood Carving Art Shown In Exhibit at Library Two wood carving exhibitions will be on display at the Provo art gallery in the public library. December 9 to "31, according, to Del Mar Nelson, gallery director. direc-tor. : '.''';;.;:. ': . '. y- ' 1"" ' -. One of the displays is that of T. M. Allman, who was born in Provo in 1867 and attended B. Y. U. - ' ; '- ; . He hasr exhibited in Portland, Oregon, and other cities throughout through-out the west. His work has txten in ; competition 11 times, winning-one first prize and three gold medals. Mr. AUman's father was . a cabinet maker and also did wood carving. . The second display-is circulated circu-lated by the WPA Federal art project . and consists - of photographic, photo-graphic, sculpture on the round, base-relief, and , a case showing processes and tools in : wood-carving wood-carving from the block . to finished fin-ished sculpture. . . , Sonya Noskowiak photographs take timber from forest to .. the lumber yard. William H. Abien-seth, Abien-seth, photographic department supervisor of .the Federal art project in San Francisco, displays dis-plays plates showing modern uses of ply-wood in buildings at the San Francisco fair. Also displaying dis-playing work of the same nature na-ture is Dudley Carter. Beautiful First ward chapel and at special services this afternoon s 1 .' Prouo Officials Oelifrn From Trip To San; Francisco .Mayor Mark Anderson and Commissioner - Jesse - Haws were home Saturday, after rpending three busy days . In San r Fran cisco where the "mayor testified at the hearing of the joint con gressional - committee "on forestry problems and both' men interviewed interview-ed regional officials of - PWA and national park service regarding Provo city projects. Through , several Tound-table nterviews with park service ' off i- f tdals 'headed bjr Frank KittregeH regional director, the Provo: men were able, to get a clear-cut picture pic-ture as to the responsibility of both the city and the park service in carrying out the Utah lake harbor project, Mr. Haws said. Allotment Made - .', ': - Also . attending the . park service meetings ; was 7 Walter Anderson: superintendent of the lake - project, pro-ject, who went to .San ' Francisco with the mayor and commissioner, The park service has appropriated appropri-ated $5900 for purchase of. materials ma-terials and equipment ; for the project for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1940. If the need goes beyond be-yond that figure, then" the city must supply the additional funds, the Provoans were - informed. Another An-other park service' appropriation will be made after July 1. " ' - - Certain equipment needed by the CCC, company on the lake project but which are of 'no use on most other CCC projects, . such as a pile driver and sand pump, must be furnished by the city According to Mr. Haws, the city will seek to rent or borrow this equipment from such agencies as the county, the forest service, or the state. Project Revived Commissioner Haws .. and Mayor (Continued: on Page Two) "Katharine," - a striking carving from teakwood, the work of Robert Rob-ert Spray, of California, which is now on display," in connection with the Federal art project, at the Provo art gallery public ! library, ; ? rm i . i recreation hall at First East and: at 2 o'clock. : First . Ward: Chapel . ; . : Dedication ; Today . ' ; : i I ; v . . V." Members ( of the Provo t First ward awaited today.- the dedication of their beautiful and spacious -ward chapel and recreation hall; at services to be held'at 2 o'clock this afternoon. after-noon. President Heber J. 0rant, first to speak in the new LUfJDELL HEADS DEET GROWER Francis G. Lundell.' state sen ator from Benjamin, was : elected president of the Utah Central Beet Growers annual .- meeting here Saturday, more than 70 growers from all .four counties in the district,, Utah, Wasatch, Juab and Millard, " being -m attendance.. at-tendance.. , ' V,J. .i - Two' new directors were elected P a u 1 : Blackhurst; Pleasant Grove, and M. Cutler Henryr Delta. Del-ta. ; L. G. Sumsionj Springville, was reelected, - and Mr. Lundell and A. H. Johnson, Lake, View, were held; over,- completing .'the five-man board. Mr.''Sumsion was named vice - president. Selec'-' tion of a secretary 'to replace Mr. - Lundell, who has held that position, : was - deferred. -. Outgoing directors are W. , J. Chadwick, American Fork, president, pres-ident, and Harold Simmons, Pay-son, Pay-son, vice president, both of whom declined re-nomination. - . There was a strong . sentiment at the meeting favoring affiliation affilia-tion of the beet association - with the farm bureau. 1 Representatives of the farm bureau proposed eliminating the two. cents per ton scale-off levied to defray ex penses of the ' association. Despite the fact that beet as sociation officials claimed such an affiliation could not' be made unless a special . meeting were called to act on the . matter, the issue came to a vote and the farm bureau proposal was voted down. Hospital Visitor Plans Inspection Dr. M. H. Manson, representative representa-tive of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, donor of a grant which made construction of the Utah Valley hospital possible. wili .make his 1 regular inspection visit here - during the next few days, reports Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the hospital board. Dr. Manson is expected to arrive voaay. Also expected here during the next few days is Robert Jordan, associate director , of the Commonwealth Com-monwealth Fund, . who . will make his periodic visit, says .Mr. Jenkins. Jen-kins. , . - Hits : Bay i LICENSED TO MARRY : Reed . Christy i Col ton, 22, and Adelaide Beth Jenkins, 22, Provo. Monte L. Hoover, 22, and Lea Helen Fontaine. 21, Los Angeles. Leland Dwight Jolley, 21, and Rhea Huntington,4 19, Spanish Fork. Joseph Burton Lucas, 19, Springville, Spring-ville, and Fern Black, 17, Payson. Hollis Heber Anderson, 22, , Mt. Pleasant, and Lois Howe Steven 23, Provo. Leland Wayne Smith 26, and Fern Robinson, 22.- - ' Second South streets,' to be dedicated by President IIeber J. Grantf rf chapel. in 1930, will offer the dedi catory prayer, and Bisnop waiter ,P Whitehead, under whose admin-istratton admin-istratton the project was initiated and completed, 'wiir conduct the services,- and 'render; a report covering cov-ering the,, building activities from the : beginning.-: , Other Shakers 'Otherar -ttf"" speak win "b 'Patri arch Thomas N. Taylor of the Utah stake, who was president of the old Utah s" take until its divi sion, and Pres. C. E. Rowan of , the Provo' stake. -: Jnvocation will be offered by Douglas T. Page, first counselor in the bishopric, and Alfred Al-fred C. Johnson will give the benediction bene-diction at the close of the services. . A, special musical "program, has been prepared . for the occasion. The choir, directed by Rheta Kay, Melba Fletcher, accompanist, . will sirig "an anthem, "The Lord Is My Shepherd,"" and later,, Let the Mountains Shout, for ; Joy.? . The congregation will sing at the opening. open-ing. "We Thank Thee, O God; For a.. Prophet,"' and preceding the dedicatory, prayer," ''The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning." A male ' qiartet,; "Teach Me . .To Pray,! will be ' sung . by Blaine Johnson, William Purdy, . Edward SandgrenV Ladd Cropper, with Loa Mathews accompanist. 1 , Following :. the dedication the chapel will be open for inspection: Old School. Site Construction cost of the impos-1 impos-1 Continued on Page 6, Section 2 DEATH CLAMS BEN F. REA A "well-known ' Provijan, , Benjamin Benja-min Franklin Rea, 65, retired real estate " man, died in' aN Salt . Lake hospital Friday afternoon of gunshot gun-shot wounds. Investigating officers said the wounds, evidently accidental, were suffered while Mr. Rea was working work-ing on a. . 38 caliber pistol in the kitchen at the home of his son-in-law, , Mr. and Mrs. F. Clark Sanf ord. ; 564 Tenth East street. Salt Lake City, whom he was visiting. " ' He was rushed to : the hospital immediately following the mishap, but died at 4 p. m., within a few hours after the wound, was inflicted Mr. ' Rea, prominent real estate man here ' prior to his retirement in 1932, was born in Pennsylvania, February i 23, ,1874. He married Sarah Cluf f Kane of Grand Junc tion, Colo., in 1904. The couple came to Provo in 190S where they had lived since. . ! Mrs. Rea' recently went to Pasa dena, Cal. to take up social work. Surviving, besides his widow, are oneson, George Rea, of Pro vo; -one daughter, Mrs. Virginia Pearl Sahf ord, wife of F. Clark Sanf ord of the Salt Lake police department; three brothers, Sam Rea of Bend, Ore., and John and Edward Rea of Kansas. - , . . .Funeral arrangements will be announced, . . flbelolin Euans, Morncy, Ghurcli leador, , GaIIe LEHI Abel John ' Evans, 87, prominent church, civic and political politi-cal leader for Jhe last .50 years died at his home Friday of natural causes. - ' Mr Evans as a young man fulfilled ful-filled L. D. S. missions in brekt Britain'andhe northern states. He was a member of the iiigh council of the Utah 1 Dl" S. stake and for 27 years was a 'member of the Alpine stake "pre'sIo'ehcyrTTIeX'aJS patriarch of the Lehi stake at the time of his ' death. . " ; , . He' was & lifelong Democrat and served as a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1892 He was elected the. state senate several times, r served as - its' president, pres-ident, and was mayor, of Lehi for several terms. He served as city attorney about1 20 years. 'He; also was a" member Of the Utah coun ty commission. !; ; : ".. '".. '1 Mr. Evans was affiliated with the Provo Reservoir company; the Utah Lake Irrigation company 'and.' the -Utah Lake. Distributing company. i.;'V" - ' ':--K - A' son of Abel and Mary Evans, Mr. Evans was born at Lehi Dec. 20, 1852. He lived all his life in Lehi. COUNTY BUDGET HEARING SET Public hearing -on the proposed 1940 budget for Utah county will be held .Tuesday, (December 26 at 3 p. m." in the county commissioners, commission-ers, room, city and county building, build-ing, , announced Sylvan W. Clark, chairman of .the commission, Saturday. Sat-urday. : ' Tentative" budget compiled by County Auditor Marcellus Nlelson on the requests of 1. the various county departments totaled. $484,-609.25. $484,-609.25. However, the county commission com-mission has been studying the budget during the past f ew, days and expect to slash the tentative figure in many departments, said Mr. Clark. JURY CONyiCTS DANK OFFICIAL SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 9 (U.R) Evan Homer Hancey, former Logan bank official, was found guilty by a federal jury -today on five counts of an embezzlement indictment and on four out of five counts on a false entry indictment. Conviction made Hancey, former form-er assistant cashier at the Cache Valley Banking company, liable to not more than five years imprisonment, impris-onment, a fine of $5,000 or both. Theconvicted embezzler will .be sentenced by Federal Judge Tillman Till-man D. Johnson on Dec; 16. Hancey had been charged With making false entries in the bank's books between June 19, 1937 and March 9, 1939 and with embezzlement embezzle-ment involving $2586, assertedly taken during -the same period. TT3 2 T Two Children Asleep in Crib Perish When Disastrous Blaze Sweeps Tiny One-Koom Home in Foothills East of Town The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Conklin of Pro vo, Faylene,' three years old, and Jerry, six months, burnt cl to death. Saturday, night at 6:45 in a quick fire which destroyed de-stroyed the little one-room house in the foothills east of the Springville road. The disastrous fire was started when a sudden brcczo blew the curtains into a coal oil lamp, by the window while Mrs. Conklin was at the home of a neighbor, Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Barney, to get some medicine for baby Jerry who was ill. The Barney home is only 100 feet from the Conklin home. Mrs. Conklin was gone from her house only a few minutes.. When she turned to go back, she saw her homo enveloped in flames. Her screams for' help attracted Elmer Carter and his wife, Delia Carter, a sister of Mr. Conklin and Mrs. Barney. All their efforts to get into the burning cottage were in vain as the flames burst through the door and the window win-dow when opened, v v An alarm was turned in to the fire department by Max Roberts who lives: to the west, but the home was almost leveled to the ground by the time the fire truck arrived, manned by Frank Cole, Lloyd Officer Oscar E. Pedersen had arrived on the scene a lew minutes earlier. . 7 The, steel crib in which the two babies were sleeping was too hot to, handle and the fir'emen were compelled to play a stream of water on it before the two bodies couM be removed. Although the fire had burned their legs ivnd their heads, the bodies were : The father who is a WPA worker was visiting at the home of his parents. Mr. and city dump, at the time of the fire, but arrived a few minutes min-utes later to help console his grief-stricken wife. Faylene wag born June 19, 193G and Jerry was born f t eet ml 1 - .. . 1 1. . I T . . 4 T ..... juneo, luou. ine omy survivors are liiu ijait:m, jjuiu iiaw rence and Cloma Alene Britton Conklin. Everything the family owned, household effects, bedding bed-ding and clothing was destroyed in the blaze. TehqmesJocateoVin .the vicinity of Fourteenth Soul!, near the Jon Boardm " ! - Tl IT? ; TTf) J . ws Mk. M 1 tw jf-; iT row iiir , ' ; By UNITED u PRESS " Finnish forces Saturday claimed to have thrown the Re t army back as much as three miles on the eastern Karelia front, as the League of Nations met in Geneva to find means of aiding Finland in her struggle. Dispatches from the Finnish front said the Finns on offensive had proved so formidable that heavy reinforcements had to be rushed to the Red army. Moscow said the army had advanced an average of six miles a day since the start nf the war. " ' ' ' The Russians, Helsinki reported, nowhere , had penetrated into the Finnish Mannerheim defense line north of Leningrad, where the Finns hoped; to hold out until it could be determined how much help, beyond moral support, they could expect from abroad. . Sanctions Demanded The League of Nations met to consider how ' to help Finland, which has demanded sanctions against the Soviet Union, and to study official Finnish charges the Red army has used poison gas and dum dum bullets in its invasion. invas-ion. " Russia denied using dumdums dum-dums and poison, gas. The league also considered reports re-ports that Russia, , in addition to expanding in the norm, naa ae- i r nmanM Tn that rnn. sierns ortTRumania. In that con nection, however, it was considered highly significant that the Moscow Mos-cow government disclaimed responsibility re-sponsibility for an article published pub-lished this week.in the Communist International, official organ of the Comintern, advising Rumania to negotiate a mutual aid pact with the Soviets. . . The article in the Comintern organ accused Rumania in oppressing op-pressing minorities in Bessarabia, formerly Russian, and its line generally was patterned after publications pub-lications which preceded Russia's occupation of Polish Ukralnia and Byelo (White) Russia. Indications that Premier Benito Mussolini was keeping his fences mended while the league tried to decide what, to do about Russia, came in Rome dispatches that a Hungarian military mission had arrived by plane in the Italian capital. Coincident with its arrival, ar-rival, Fascist students continued their pro-Finnish demonstration. Six men were killed when a German coastal patrol cutter struck a German mine. The British Brit-ish added to their long list of prizes of war when British men-o'-war seized the 3,648-ton German steamer Ollendorff. rr 0 Dixon and Glen Clark. Police still recognizable. Mrs. Thomas Conklin by the Hazi Subinarir:::, incs Take Irj; Toll of Shipping By UNITED PRESS German submarines and mines added today to the toll of life and tortnage at sea aa the BrltLsh admiralty ad-miralty took drastic stepa to frc British territorial waters of (Linger. (Lin-ger. Latest casualties in ca warfare war-fare included: The British ship Brandon, C,-663 C,-663 tons, nine dead. The Danish freighter Scotia, 3,600 tons. 21 dead. The British freighter Corea, 75 1 tons, eight mLssinpr. The Norwegian freighter Glrr.Ie, 1,271 tons, three missing, believe J drowned. A German coast patrol cutter, six dead after striking a mine. In addition there waa ffar for the safety of the new Japan. n freighter Azuma Maru, 6.C10 tors, from which nothing has been he rsr , since it sent out distress call from off the Scottish coast two days ago. The Briish added to thf ir list f f prizes uhen their warships jseizr j the 3,648 ton German ship Ollendorff. Ollen-dorff. The vessel, captured tit Iceland, was disguised ag a I.-: Blan ship with Russian flsi painted on its Bides. ALLIES MAY NOT WIN BOISH, Ida., Dec. 9 0IP)"-O:il come of the present IJ'irope -i .n war is by no means certain erv.i Britain and France may not win, Arno DoRch-Klcurot, ion I ' land newspaper man and fCrt:.rn war correspondent covering i i-rope i-rope for 2r years, toll a K Expand Exp-and Fork club gather! - let night. iiii , ii Uii |