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Show PAGE EIGHT- ITALY POSES BAN ON USE . OF GASOLINE; HEADY FOR 17AR By REYNOLDS PACKARD ROME, July 1 (UX) Italy ordered or-dered citizens to cease operating gasoline-consuming vehicles, effec tlve today. : ,,. The storing of gasoline was one of the : final J phases of Italy's preparations for war and in some quarters it was believed that Premier Pre-mier Benito Mussolini might an nounce on Tuesday that he was ready to enter the conflict on the "side of Germany. . V AU gasoline-consuming vehicles. Including private automobiles and motorcycles, were ordered of f lite streets. Besides electric and coke- burning: auto buses,: only ant ouated automobiles consuming coke, and the automobiles of Xtal tan nffMnla wr Hrculatlner Motor traffic -throughout Italy was reduced immediately 80 per cent. . t i Suffered Shortage y Italy suffered a severe gasoline shortage - during x the Ethiopran war. and supplies which she had stored up prior to that campaign were nearly exhausted by tne ume it was over. Italians wera. unable to obtain -V. gasoline KfromXother countries because of , the "sanctions" "sanc-tions" laid down by the League, Nations. iv Special significance was attached attach-ed to the arrival today of a special military mission -which Generana slmo Francisco Franco of Spain 'has sent to Italy to inspect Italian defenses. The mission reached Milan from Genoa, and went im-- im-- mediately to the Brenner Pass.;; It probably will spend ' two days in the north and later go to Berlin. There has been close collaboration between Spain and Italy since close of the Spanish civil war, during which Italy gave Franco considerable consider-able aid. " , Cabinet I Meet Tuesday . Mussolini will . meet with his cabinet pn Tuesday morning. That night he will report to the Fascist grand council. . It - already has been announced officially the cabi- SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL DR. E. G. COLE, D. V.5L Boarding, Bathing and Clipping i rhone 1740 lTovo, Utah Sixth East mnd Eighth North THE EUE1T BEErr TJAiTiriG Fon Oui Annual Two-for-One Cent Sale! v" 1 WEEK ONLY! f Positively Ehdsfiatiif day, June 8 The Greatest Sale in Our History! COATS-SUlT&-DnESSES-HATS EXAMPLE OF VALUES: DRESSES ; Regular. $5.95 Sale ........ .2 for $5.96 Regular $7.95--Sale . . . . ... .2 for $7.96 ANY HAT IN OUR STORE ..... . .$1.00 If It's New or Smart We Have It" ' -GLORIA'S. : .66 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE net meeting will have an important import-ant bearing on Italy's position regarding the war. BOND REFUNDING LAW REPEALED An ordinance Of April 23 calling in for refunding the $850,000 municipal mu-nicipal power revenue bonds ,was repealed in an ordinance adopted by the city commission at a. spe cial meeting Friday night.' ; f ' The new ordinance also rescind' ed and cancelled the notice of call of the bonds published In the Bond Buyer, - financial newspaper pub lished in New York Cityi. , Rescinding of the former action was necessary because, of the fact that it has become Impossible to sell the refunding bonds under the terms and conditions provided in the April 23 ordinance due to cob lapse of the bond market caused by the European war, city officials said. 1 The city commission had plan ned and the move was approved by the voters to refund - the , 4Vs per cent bonds, to reduce the Interest In-terest rate to about 2 per, cent. They also had planned to Lissue $350,000 In additional revenue bonds to expand the. municipal power' plant, but this proposal also hit the snag. Shaw Leaves For Missouri School Seth T. Shaw, head of the de partment of horticulture at Brig- ham Young university, left Satur day , for Columbia, Mo., to attend summer school at University of Missouri, where he hopes to com plete requirements for his Ph. 151 degree.' v : -' .' . 4 j '"i He will return August 1 to make final preparations for the Utah county fain September 5, 6 and 7, of which he is manager. ; Mr. Shaw reports plans are pro gressing rapidly for the county fair, which, he anticipates will be one of the best in Provo's History YOU HAUE - ' . ' - - lgTEj PRO VP YUTAH) Airport Site Offered For Munition Plant . I The virtually-abandoned Provo cityrport just , east of the golf course was recommended as a site for establishing a munitions manu facturing plant in a letter sent Congressman J. W."" Robinson by Mayor Mark Anderson Saturday. . Provo city owns 300 acres at the site. This together With a few hundred additional acres of accretion accre-tion grounds could be devoted to the government's use, the mayor said. f - i-j A He pointed out in his letter that the site is - conveniently located with respect to water, power. steel, coal, railroad and other factors. : . " Mayor Anderson also wrote gov ernment aeronautics, officials ask ing that they investigate 1 possibilities possi-bilities of establishing a non-college ; aviation school near v the shores of Utah lake where a splen did airport can be developed with little work and expense. t This would be. an ideal place for. use or seaplanes as well as regular air crafts, the mayor ' pointed out, adding that flying, both civil and military, coma De developed on a large scale. - TRUCKERS MEET IN SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY. June 1 OLE) Ted V. Rodgers of Scranton, Pa-j president of the American Truck ing associations; today assailed unreasonable ' '. and burdensome laws that confront operators dur ing business In interstate ' com merce." . Rodgers was the prlnci pal speaker at today's general session of the western states '; trucking conferences Owners of most of the trucking firms represented at the conven tion agreed that the first line of defense against efforts to hamper highway transportation la strong stato, regional and national organizations. organ-izations. A banquet tonight was to com plete the. two-day convention. . Gity Court . . Oliver , Shell requested . a preliminary pre-liminary hearing when arraigned before City Judge LeRoy Tuckett Friday afternoon on a charge of bastardy. The hearing was set for for June 21 at 10 a. m. .t , Alvie Holden, John Thomas and Eldon Reese, all qf Payson, were arraigned on a charge of forgery. Holden and Thomas , waived preliminary pre-liminary hearings Reese requested request-ed one, which was set ' for June 6, at 10 a. 'in. Bail .was set at $500 for each of the three." V Harold J. Olsen pleaded . - not guilty to falling to yield the right-of-way ', to Elmer Skinner 4 Thursday. Thurs-day. His trial- was set for' June 13 at 10 a. m.. . . ' - Hal Wilson and IrvhrB. Greer each forfeited $10 bail on intoxication, intoxi-cation, charges. ' . --. : TOOITE FOR CLASSIFICATION I FOR Sae-IV1ISCELLANEO US ALFALFA hay in field, ready, to -hauK' Silky - Knudsen, VVest Drive. : . "v ' - j3 . .. 1 GHT delivery wagon, rough lumber. 597. North .University Avenue. '- ,;:",'.J4 FOR RENT FURNISHED CHOICE - cool i modern 3 room .apartment. 360 East ! 6 - North. FOR RENT UNFURNISHED 3 ROOM modern apartment, hot water, heat; garage, 248 Norh 2nd. East. ' jjl4 5 ROOM modern brick home. Rent . reasonable, to responsible party. 911 North 2nd East., - J4 HELP WANTED, H FEMALE r EXPERIENCED girl for general housework. Phone 765J. j2 MIDDLE-aged woman as compan-; compan-; ion for elderly lady. Phone 768W ":. or ,164. - . . .31 FOR SALE OR TRADE HOUSE or 738 Logan' Avenue, Salt .Lake City. Phone Hyland 9028R. j4 BOARD AND ROOM ' BOARD and room for 2 men. 469 North 1st East. Phone 1199M J7- -Expert Service: , REFRIGERATORS RADIOS - WASHERS &. VACUUM CLEANERS All Makes CALL 24 GRIFFITH APPLIANCE SERVICE At Furniture Exchange 310 W. Center, Provo, Utah We Do Out-of-town Service SUNDAY: HERALD, Opposes Belgian " King's Surrender Premier Hubert Pierlot, leader of the Belgian cabinet that opposed op-posed King Leopold's surrender to the Germans. A radio speech1 by Pierlot, repudiating the ca-' . pitulation, was postponed. GRAIIAL1 URGES AID TO 1ALL1ES A petition urgingthat Congress be asked to repeal all neutrality laws,, in order that help to ' the Allies may be speeded up, is being; circulated by J. C. Graham, manager man-ager of the New Century Printing company. . - Mr. Graham is anxious .that' eervlce clubs and other organiza tions, - forward resolutions to- our Congressmen and senators, urging that all possible steps be taken to accelerate the shipment .of neces sary munitions of war and other supplies to England and' France. He also favors tha appointment of additional FBI operators to in vestigate "fifth column" activi ties. - : v More than SO prominent business) men and civic officials have signed the petition. Thirty-eight years Is the .aver age bsc of steel workers, wun two out of five being' more than 40 years oia. . . ' ,.V . -J-A Tn show fttiv nrofit. th trans- Atlantic British liner, Queen - j x ' Mary, must return nearly $5,000, 000 annually; X ' ! 'X - ' - - -ii inn ii i I FROM DEiu nriDEnsbii V'.x-r-'.?f.-W'.'.' IBZ&ZVZZ CAR OWNERS:. Buy a DeSoto Get ;39 New Features 17 VERY BUYER WANTS ',Ej top trade-in allowance a good Deal ' on his old car. :: We can give you that ' v plus the one 1 940 car that has . all 39 new features not found in your 2,3 or 4-year-old carl DeSoto, in most cases, gives you 5 to 15 more horsepower ...seats up to 8 inches wider than yours... 50 to 65 better bet-ter road lighting. Yet this great , car, built by Chrysler Corporation Corpo-ration is priced $20 to $43 lower than last yearl . .-. 211 WEST CENTER, PROVO - PHONE 343 XT i D) SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1940 Duchesne Yonoel DMs to b Asked Early This Illonih With plans and specifications nearing completion, contract fnr construction . of the , $2,000,000 Duchesne tunnel, a unit of tne Deer Creekx project, may be let this month,, Iceland H. Kimball, engineer for the Salt Lake Metro politan water district told direc tors of the Provo River Water Users' association at Salt Lake City Friday. ' Mr. Kimball recently returned from Denver where he conferred with reclamation officials.' " The tunnel,: which will connect the Duchesne I and Provo rivers. will be blasted out to a diameter of . approximately nine feet through the solid rock of Gie Uin tah mountains, Mr. Kimball said. Its lower end will be. between Kamas and Mirror lake, transporting trans-porting .the Duchesne's water to the bed of the Provo and thence down ' to -. the Deer Creek reser voir In Provo canyon. - Uatkins to Lend Republican Club V Don Watkins was elected chair man of. the newly-organized Orem Young Republicans clUD at ' a meeting Friday night "at Orem park in Provo canyon, announces Phil Chris tenson, county chairman, chair-man, .who presided. ;' Reva'Oordner was elected vice-chairwoman vice-chairwoman and Clorene Lamb, secretary-treasurer. -.' ; Committeemen . from th four districts of Orem will be appoint ed by. the present officers and. will, include one man and on- woman from each district. More than 30 . Young Republi cans attended the meeting, veri G. Dixon, chairman of the Provo club, spoke briefly. Hazel Palfrey- roan , played accordion numbers, and a quartet composed of Gordon Hansen, DarreJl Haws, Merrill Farley and Don Rowley sang several sev-eral selections. Committeemen in charge were Mr. Christenson, Reva Cordner, Mrs. Fay Fielding, Mrs. Alex Jameson, Clorene Lamb,- Don Wat-kins Wat-kins and ' Stanlsy Flhclw , Melanesian natives grow yams in excess of their food, reqmre- ments as evidence of tneir weaitn or social rank. , See this great new De Soto... get our appraisal onyour present pres-ent car. You Won't find a better bet-ter deal in town. . Check these E!g Featuresl v 100-horsepower engine lZZVij'-wheelbase com i plete modern styling (no trunk bulge) new Floating Ride Sealed Beam Head- lights improved Handy-; Handy-; Shift on steeringpost curved j glass rear window many 4 other important featuresl Prices '20 to 43 Lower : than Last Year DEUIXECOUPC I BEUJXES1DAII ' DliwTi mt Detroit. Mickisaa. Fdral i. Uiti iacludad. TrauportaUoa. tat mm local tes i y. tra. -. ROTd OUARTET LIKES. PROVO The Roth ;- String- Quartet will be glad to play in. rrovo again because they regard the Provo tabernacle aa eqiMl in acousUcs to any building in which they have played in America. The organization, or-ganization, played three concerts in the tabernacle in June of last year and will play five more this summer, June. 17-21. Only one other structure in which they have played in America Ameri-ca impressed the famous musicians musi-cians as being equal to the Provo tabernacle for music perform-ancea. perform-ancea. Mr. Roth knows auditoriums auditor-iums from coast to coaat, tor 1040 is the fourteenth season that he and hig organization have made concert tours In America," They have played in 'several Library of Congress festivals in -Washington. D. C, in similar festivals, in New York City, Denver,' and Los Angeles, as well -as in many other cities.' , . . - ':' Since reservation's for seats during the entire "festival week" are already coming in from Og- den. Salt L&k fMtv nnr! f Iro. where, it la ? anticipated that REPEAL : Realizing that this war is not a European war but a world revolution for liberty and right to live in freedom or be compelled to live in slavery to totalitarian, totalitar-ian, and for the purpose of giving' the Congress immediate mass opinions of numbers num-bers of citizens the undersigned suggest that all civic clubs,1 church organizations, fraternal organizations and all other organizations or societies, get together and pass and forward to our. Senators and Congressmen, resolutions urging that the Congress at once repeal all" neutrality laws which stand in the way of giving to the Allied governments of Great. Britain and France -all the help in our power m the way of making available to them airplanes, tanks, armored cars, etc., (which can be made available) belonging to the army, navy, or air departments of the tinted ' States, on a credit basis (if necessary) and that further credit be extended to such Allied governrfients to enable them to purchase in larger quantities all needed war . arms, planes, tanks, shells, etc - - . i ' That as the Allies believe if they can hold out for the next thirty days,. they will have the situation under greater control, it is important that these planes and tanks be made available to them at once, and that if International Law, as the For- eign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, seems to believe, tends to prevent such sales, such International Law. in the discretion of the Congress, be suspended temporarily, or that we change our attitude of neutrality "to one of nonbelligerency non-belligerency for the present crisis, so that planes, tanks, and other war material shall be made available to the Allies' at on ce and now. - ; Th-at there should be a. General -Staff to co-ordinatc all arms of defense. : ... That, for the present and future" protection of the country, shipments of scrap iron and steel, oil, gasoline, aluminum, copper, etc.. be embargoed, and that stores of these materials be at once begun. , .t . . ' That the Federal Bureau of Investigation be further enlarged to the extent that at least one additional operator shall be placed in each State of the Union, with' authority- to appoint (in conjunction with local governments -and police officials) offic-ials) additional persons to locate, identify and serve to control any Fifth Column work in the different localities. ; . ; . . ; . . , ' - That as the people of these United States cannot ask or expect airplane factories, fac-tories, machine toll plants, auto, plants-to borrow money. to expand their plants to make machines to protect these United S tates, because of the war (which might at any time leave them holding the bag), we suggest that your resolutions Fhould insist that subsidies be given such factories and plants, where necessary, to enable them to provide such expansion and increased production. . , aT ' " jyftmi 3 ' 'V " XI many prsoas win hear HI Hve concerts. Season tickets are. however, how-ever, transferable, assured Dr. A. C Lambert, dean of the Brig-ham Young' university uramer school, which is aponsortng' the lerlea. This lummer will mark the tnlrvl r.ioion ToriE finy Gar I. C hrk limit try. Wire t. Tn. t . iM md AiM , Spark 1. Trmt C, L. Krnrt and ft; HirMii trtbatvr, Adim-t l'otnta. S. Tnt (I and ImdraMT. IMa- . H TUniaa. Ilave Your Generator, Starter, Equipment Serviced by SpeciaJisU, Factory-Xramoa .urn: GENERAL REPAIR ALL TYPES BRAKE WORK ANNOL'N New Radio Department We Call nir.iEQ DflTTEnv nno r."OTon AUTO SPECIALIZED 275 iiouth University Ave. Neutrality LAV S m, apprar,c cf th Rath Quartet before Ii. T. U. audie-nce. w:ia whom, they are favorite. Irdes2. they are popular with the au.3-ience au.3-ience in 60 coHegea in all section sec-tion cf America. - up spscial Extra kt4 Va). S. T imrt F . (Iraa ud U A ir ' O a. Ohwk tiMprta. I i. ( h-k Mrt-r. 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