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Show Ti7cf 7cfi 7c:inf UTAH: J"i:i..!ay partly c!.-udy; MaxLT.-jra temp., Saturday .. 81 Itlnimum leni;., Saturday .. 4t -ft i 1 Ey Patronizing LxmJ Ftarii tz 1 VOL. 18, NO. i PKOVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910 UTAH'S ONLY D4.ILY SOUTH OF HALT t.iifH PRICE FIVE CENTS f 1 1 I F m m ii Lm L 1 nM n W m f i I i r"i 4 f. v ----- w r. - t ' 1 I - t mdt - V ' c !,i ,,: V Li U, eaS Ii L L Cjt J Li .i.j.- id M W h. H r k ' r f Many newspaper renders who are following- the Cattle of Britain from day to day, are asking- why the Iloy.il Air Force doesn't retaliate by bombing- Berlin more intensely intense-ly to piy up for the frightful attack unloosed on London by the German bombing squads. The answer given by military mili-tary experts is that it is better bet-ter strategy to bomb the German Ger-man fleet concentrations alonp- the French coast across the English channel. oOO Many people are astonished over the wonderful morale of the people of London which refuses to break under the incessant in-cessant pounding of the German Ger-man raiders. The English can't afford to give up to the Germans, because they know it would mean slavery tollit-ler tollit-ler and his cohorts, something the French are finding c"t to their sorrow. The English J would rather die than submit to the Nazis. I -oOO j Lest We Forget I If it. had not been for Wash-ton, Wash-ton, Lincoln would have had no country to save . . . and . . If it had not lxfen for Lincoln, Lin-coln, Washington would have been the father of twins. ! oOO Parody isn't exactly up our .alley, but we know a passable ffort when we see one. We ;ffer the following contribution contribu-tion as a sample: kittle Miss Maffy -at in a cafe, atinq- her curds and whey. 'N"o fat -And -no sweet,"- --- ----- . Said she, "dast I eat, .'And I'm losing a pound a day." j We dare say it can fie matched, if not improved up- GC-ncuriD A Daily Picture cf What's Goinj On in National Affain i (Ilitor's Note One free ride n The Washington Slerry-do-louiid Rots to Claude Wkkard, jew Secretary of Agriculture, ut' today' I'r.i:s Ring award,) Jrass Ring- to Claude Wick-1 ard. Dirt-Farmer Secretary of Agriculture Appointed To Match Wflikie As Indi ana Boy Popular in Corn-Hog Corn-Hog Belt; Avoids Ten-Dollar Words, Gets Down To Earth As Political Expounder; Ex-pounder; New Deal Hopes He'll Swing Many Votes Away From GOP in Key Midwest. ! WASHINGTON When Claude A'ickard was appointed Secretary if Agriculture, replacing Henry Wallace, most of the newsmen vho had to write stories about urn scanely had heard his name. Vnd in the eastern United States, erhaps even in the South and Vest, he was relatively unknown. 'I Within the next few days, however, how-ever, Claude Wickard received iOO congratulatory messages, only !i few less than Wallace received pn his nomination for Vice Pres-dent. Pres-dent. Claude stayed up until 3 i. m. reading them. He wag that leased. ( All of which illustrates the act that althoug'h newspapermen iay not have heard of Wickard, ; housands of farmers not only lave heard of him, but have grip-ed grip-ed his hand and know him per-onally. per-onally. 5 Wickard looks and acts very nuch like a farmer. Once when 1 group of (Agriculture Department Depart-ment officials were driving near .Vashington, they got into a conversation con-versation with a Maryland farm-l farm-l t, who after looking them over aid: "You may all be from the department, but there's only one vho is a real farmer, and that's his one." j He pointed to Wickard. ) Unquestionably the fact that Vickard was a farmer's farmer, )articularly an Indiana farmer's armer, had, a lot to do with his lppointment as Secretary of Agri-ulture. Agri-ulture. The political strategy wras -o offer Wickard in contrast to :r.tinued on Page Four, See. Two i ii i I M u m W . Registration Considered Satisfactory By Dr. Harris Registration cards; class schedules and catalogues were shelved temporarily Saturday night at the conclusion of the second day of registration at Brigham Young university. Large numbers of former students returning to the campus, joined newcomers in the halls cf the Maeser building and the Heber J. Grant library where enrollment took place. Dr. Franklin Frank-lin S. Harris, president of the university, uni-versity, characterized the registration regis-tration as "entirely satisfactory" and said that indications pointed to the usual large enrollment for the year. On Saturday evening, the second in a series of three programs de-signeTT de-signeTT lor orientation of new students, stu-dents, was held in College hall. Additional artists who were added to the program were Dale Johnson of Richmond, violinist, and Neal Ivie of Salina, tenor soloist. Students were given an invitation invita-tion to attend the Sunday services in wards of the L. D. S. Provo and Utah stakes. Bishops said that special efforts would be made to make the newcomers at home both in Sunday school and sacrament meetings. Registration will continue Monday Mon-day morning at 8:30. and will officially of-ficially conclude Monday after noon at 5. Under a revised system supervised super-vised by Registrar John E. Hayes, students obtained registration books in the Maeser building and then meet with deans and advisors in the library building to outline courses. After the payment Of fees, students are photographed in the final step of the" rrow' 'crocessr The concluding orientation program pro-gram and "get acquainted"' dance will be held Monday evening. W i f -1' a . j A new plan for "orienting" new girls on the B. Y. U. campus is being launched during registration registra-tion by the Associated Women Students, accVrding to Mrs. Nettie Net-tie Ntff Smart, dean of women. Under the new system the city of Provo ia divided into geographical geogra-phical districts or "council groups," each containing an approximately ap-proximately equal number of girls, including both former stu- Uent3 and new coeds. Over each 01 tnese districts will be ber of the new A.W.S, a mem-council mem-council as a leader. "In each council group the new girls will be formed into smaller "mentor groups," each of which will be led by a junior or senior mentor girl," Mrs. Smart said. "In this way the persons in the mentor groups will all live in the same neighborhood and will be able to have more successful mentor parties and also make their mentor groups more active in the school life." First activity of the A. W. S. council will be the sponsoring of a fashion revue Monday afternoon after-noon in College hall. At this time further information will be given to the new girls about activities of the association. Members of the newly formed A. W. S. council are announced as fol!ovs, by Dean Smart: Carol Oaks, Provo; Lucy Cajinon, Salt Lake City; Faun Thomson, Gwen Johnson, Richfield; Vivian Keller, Kel-ler, Manti: Lois Jensen, Mt. Pleasant; Pleas-ant; Martha Fitzgerald, Ephraim; Dorothy Ballard, Draper; Helen Ream, Dingle, Idaho; and Verda Mae Fuller, Barnwell, Alberta, Canada. Roosevelt Clan Birthday Of HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 21 a:r.i The Roosevelt clan came to Hyde park today to celebrate the 86th birthday anniversary of Sara Delano Roosevelt, the president's mother. Mr. Roosevelt spent a quiet day at the family home with his mother, moth-er, after arriving here last night from Philadelphia. Mfs'. Roosevelt was due at Hyde parK house late in the afternoon. Elliott Roosevelt and his wife, Ruth, were on their way from Ft. Ad. Inserted in News paper by Family of Baby Uy IRKDRICK C. OTOMAN HILLSBOROUGH, Calif., Sept. 21 (U.R) Five of Califor nia's wealthiest families, two of them of the French nobil ity, raised $10000 in cash today with which to redeem three-year-old Count Marc De Tristan from the captivity of a suave, hook-nosed kidnaper. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, state and local police, and newspapers had withdrawn from vicinity of the beautiful home of the baby's parents, Count and Countess Marc De Tristan, to make it both easy and safe for the kidnaper to go about collecting his ransom. Ready To Pay The family already had announced an-nounced they were ready and will ing to pay and the ransom was waiting. The San Francisco Examiner Ex-aminer carried the classified advertisement ad-vertisement which the kidnaper had instructed the family to insert in-sert as the first step toward obtaining ob-taining release of the baby. But some authorities entertained fears for safety of the little victim, vic-tim, despite the kidnaper's repeated re-peated assurances in a ransom note he would be well treated. The kidnaper, a man between 45 and 50, apparently a Latin, with a prominent nose, had acknowledged acknowl-edged an unstable mind by Signing Sign-ing the note, "unconventional eccentric. ec-centric. Its tone indicated the ruthlessness of its author. Prominent Fairily The kidnaper who snatched the baby from his nurse in a street of this wealthy suburb of San Fran-, Cisco yesterday, struck at a family so promirent itself and with so many wealthy connections, that the crime will be known aa the California Lindbergh case. The young countess, Jane, is'th daughter of the late Edwin Chris-tenson. Chris-tenson. Taulti-millronaire 'lumber and shipping magnate. Her mother moth-er is now the wife of Louis Shat-tuck Shat-tuck Cates. wealthy president of the Phelps Dodge corporation, the copper firm. Her father was drowned in a yachting accident 18 years ago On his father's side, the elder (Continued on Page Four) ..i i.ViOV OPEf.'S ins mymi AURORA, 111., Sept. 21 (U.P) Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon Ore-gon opened hLs Republican vice-presidential vice-presidential campaign today with a pledge to free domestically-consumed domestically-consumed American farm products prod-ucts from competition with world price -levels. He accused hi3 Democratic opponent, op-ponent, former Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of dodging the farm issue in his campaign speeches. McNary proposed creating a marketing allotment plan that would divide the American farm output into two classes segregating segre-gating the part required for .lo- mestic consumption from the part to be known as "the exportable export-able surplus." He said it would "allot to each farmer his fair share in the American market upon which he will receive parity price and assure as-sure the farmer his equitable share in the national income. "Too long a world of lower standards of living, lower wages and lower incomes has fixed the prices of American agricultural products. Let us end that situation situa-tion without delay," McNary said. McNary made his first campaign cam-paign speech on behalf of himself him-self and Wendell L. Willkie, his presidential running mate, before a rural audience at an Illinois rally in Exposition park. He chided Wallace for seeking to hang an appeasement label on Republicans and transferring his campaign from the farm belt to Europe. Celebrates Grandmother Worth. Franklin, Jr., and his wife, the former Ethel du Pont, also will be here later in the day, joining- their infant son, Franklin L. Roosevelt III who already i3 here. James Rcosevelt, eldest son cf the president, also was en route. Of the Roosevelt children, only John, who resides in Nahant, Mass.. and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roose-velt Eoettiger, who lives to Seattle, Seat-tle, Washington, will be absent tonight to-night from the family dinner. Victim Of Kidnaper, Parents . .. , Marc de Tristan, 3, son of Count wealthy California socialites, who was kidnaped by men overpowering his nurse and was held for a $100,000 ransom. Countess and Count Marc de Tristan, wealthy and socially prominent, promin-ent, whose chjld was kidnaped and held for $100,000 ransom. Photo taken at a recent party. Til" J. H. Palmes, city manager, Earl Douglas, city commissioner, commission-er, and James Evans, chief engineer en-gineer of Fort Collins, Colo., visited vis-ited Provo Saturday to inspect the municipal power plant, reported re-ported Mayor Mark Anderson, Fort Collins, Mr. Palmes advised, ad-vised, plans to install a third unit in their municipal plant, and the officials wanted to observe the operation of the equipment installed in the plant here. The visitors expressed ' amazement amaze-ment at the growth being mAle by Provo and the electricity output out-put at the municipal plant, which is far greater than that of Fort Collins. They also lauded the operating oper-ating record of the Provo plant. Gun Shot Wound. Fatal to Youth OGDEN, Utah. Sept. 21 (U.Pi Robert Knight, 18. Rupert, Idaho, died Friday in an Ogden hospital of bullet wounds inflicted by an Ogden policeman May 4. Knight was shot when he disregarded dis-regarded orders of Patrolman John F. Whettcn to halt after he allegedly alleg-edly fled the scene of a morning Eervice station burglary. 1 . ' and Countess Marc de Tristan, i ntc L-ay . . . LICENSED TO MAKKV Don Carlos Price, Jr., 31, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, and Maxine Woolsten-hulme. Woolsten-hulme. 25, Oakley. Edmond Malouf, 29, Los Angeles, An-geles, and Katherine Reesha, 20, Provo. Jack Smoot Newell, 23, Idaho Falls, Ida., and Alberta Gwen Hutchings, i8, Payson- John George Pettley, 29, Salt Lake City, and Ada Marie Adams, 28, Salt Lake City. Clarbourne Parry, 24, Bluffdale, and L. Dean Terry, 20, Alpine. Dean L. Peck, 25, Orem, and Geneva Markham, 18, Provo. Old Folks to Be Guests at Show All old folks of Provo and Utah slakes, 70 years of age and over, and widows and widowers past 60, are to be guests of the Paramount theater, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, to see the show, "The Sea Hawk." JOUIIXAL TO BACK WILLKIE PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 21 (f.P) The Oregon Journal, which supported sup-ported all Democratic presidential candidates since its founding- in 1902, today came out for Wendell Willkie for president. 1 r ' 4 G. O. P. Nominee Outlines His Own Six-Point Foreign Policy liy WILLIAM II. LAWRENCE I nlted Press Staff Correspondent CIVIC AUDITORIUM, San Francisco, Sept. 21 (U.R) (HFR) Wendell L. Willkie asserted tonight that President Presi-dent Roosevelt's administra tion "must bear a direct share of the responsibility for the present war. The Republican presidential nominee outlined his own six-point foreign policy. He said that program pro-gram furnished the elements of the "battle of America," victory in which some day would make democracy here more stable by boosting the standarfl of living at home, in South America, the Orient, Mexico, Canada and event ually "shattered Europe." Aid To Britain Willkie advocated: "1. We must send, and we must keep sending, aid to Britain, our first line of defense and our only remaining friend. We must aid her to the limit of prudence, and effectiveness, and determined by impartial experts in this field "2. In the Pacific our best ends will 1m? served by a free, strong, ana democratically progressive China, and we should render eco nomic assistance to that end. j. ine Dunaing- or a defense system adequate to protect our son trom aggression from, any quarter a aerense system so strong that none will ever dare to strike. "4. An industrial revival, reemployment, re-employment, and encouragement to American enterprises, without which we cannot hope to maintain our democratic Institutions. "5. Wise use of crediU and economic agreement -3 ". . (to) encourage the industrial development develop-ment of other countries, help them to expand, and promote their prosperity. "6. Exploring the acquisition and development of Pacific air bases for the protection of our interests in that ocean." He charged that the Roosevelt administration "has contributed to the downfall of European dem- (Continued on Page Six) NATIVE OF ' M17AYDIES Josephine Christiansen Anderson, Ander-son, 82, died Saturday morning at her home, 721 West Fifth North, following a three-weeks' j OK in Oslo. Norway. She -joined the L. D. S. church there, serving as Relief Society president for some time. She emigrated to Utah in 1S95, settling in Provo. She was active in the church as long as health permitted. Her husband, Martin ago. Anderson, died 33 years Surviving are two sons ar.d two daughters, Arthur C. Anderson and Carl J. Anderson, both of Provo; Mrs. Louise Jacobsen, Pleasanton, Cal., and Mrs. Veda Harris, Oakland, Cal; 19 grandchildren grand-children and 33 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Tuesday Tues-day at 1:30 p. m. in the Pioneer ward chapel with Bishop V. D. Norman presiding. Friends, may call at Berg mortuary Monday evening and at the home of a son, Carl, 6G1 West Seond North. Tuesday prior to services. Burial will be in the Provo city cemetery. ceme-tery. -" Around Bear Creak Dam A 3',i-mile gravel-surfaced detour de-tour on highway 1S9 from a point just east of Deer Creek dam to Charleston was orned for use Friday, Fri-day, announced W. D. Hammond, chairman of the state road commission. com-mission. The detour routes traffic out into in-to the valley, away from the face of the'mountain as a safety measure mea-sure against falling rocks loosened by workers on the new permanent highway site 150 to 200 feet above on the side of the mountain. It also provides a rather smooth drive over the area from Deer Creek to Charles, which, on the old highway, haa been extremely dusty and rough. Follow Railroad. The detour, which for the most part follows the old railroad riht- V -t i SMI,' British Bombers Blast German Bases Across the Channel in One of the Most Powerful Power-ful Counter-Blows of War By JOE ALEX MORRIS " " United Pre Foreign News Editor British bombers blasted with mounting- fury at German and Italian war bases from Europe to Africa today to offset steady Nazi air raids on the British Isles-and Axis hints Spain might soon enter the conflict. Daylight raids on London and other targets in southeastern south-eastern England continued at a slackened pace, following a night in which bombing of 35 districts in the London area was carried out so sporadically the harrassed population got a chance to sleep for the first time in two weeks. Nazi Bases Blasted But British bomber pilots got little rest. Throughout much of the night they showered high ex plosives on German "invasion ba.ses across the calm but foggy English channel, and blasted Nazi airports, harbors and communica tions lines aa far as western Germany, Ger-many, one of their mo.st powerful counter-blows of the war. Dispatches from Berlin admitted for the first time, tnat steady powerful British raids had b-?en made for wcek3 on the French side of the English channel where the Germans have been reported mass ing boats and men at Calais, Dun kirk, Ostend, and other ports for a possible invasion of Britain. The raids have been more in tense in recent days, German re port3 said, but the high command asserted little damage had been done to military objectives by British bombers that flew over western Germany and were turned back from Berlin at Hamburg. German attacks on Britain were described by the Nazis aa success ful in smashing with the aid of new fog-piercing- apparatus at British industrial and communica tions objectives, especially rail road centers in the London area vi hich are vita! to-British defense In Africa, the Italians admit ted British planes which have been bombing Fascist concentrations in the Sidi Barrani area had again attacked the big Libyan port of Benghazi, but said Italian pilots had "ontensely'' replied by bombing bomb-ing railroads, store houses and defenses de-fenses around Marsa Matrush. Official communiques, however, indicated the Italian offensive into Egypt was momentarily in a lull, with the Fascists holding Sidi Barrani. Bar-rani. The African campaign and the role of Spain in the war appeared to have been of greatest import ance in the discussions of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini at Rome. The Fascist press, led by the newspaper newspa-per II Tclegrafo of Foreign Minister Minis-ter Count Galeazzo Ciano, asserted assert-ed that in the decisive phase of naly" "a'nV German the war, Spain would line up with Ane aays communiques, with out necessarily decreasing the pos sibility of a German attempt to invade England, added to recent indications the next important Axis thrust may be against some British Empire outprxst .such as Gibraltar or Suez rather than the British Isles. Springville Boy Reported Missing Whereabouts of Robert Singleton, Single-ton, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Singleton, who left his home in Springville Friday, taking along some of his personal belongings, was being sought late Saturday by Utah county officers. The youth, dressed in green pants, green striped shirt and white oxford3, is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 110 pounds, and is of medium complexion with blue-gray blue-gray eyes, officers said. of way (the railroad tracks have been relocated along the mountainside mountain-side north of the valley) was constructed con-structed at a cost of $7,000, according ac-cording to Mr. Hammond. It is 22 feet wide and was surfaced with 10,000 tons of gravel, stated E. R. Kennelly, resident engineer. Although a definite decision has not been reached, it is doubtful if the detour will be oiled, as oiling in the fall, when the temperature has dropped and storms are frequent, fre-quent, is hazardous, Mr. Kennelly said. Too, the detour will be used only until next spring, so to go to too much expense in its construction construc-tion would not. be wise, he indicated. When Deer Creek dam i3 completed, com-pleted, and water U stored in the (Continued on Page Six) c Axis PotV3i May Shift yrrenctvo By J. W. T. MASON" United Press War Expert As the German offensive against Great Britain apparently has reached a deadlock, it is reasonable rea-sonable to believe reports from Rome and Berlin that discussions between Mussolini and German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop relate, re-late, in part, to plans for attack elsewhere. It is difficult, however, how-ever, from a military standpoint, to understand where Germany can strike anew with fair hope of success. It is always hard in warfare to change the strategy of a campaign, cam-paign, and especially so when the major objective to be gained has to be altered, 8 3 now seems to be the case. Reports from the totalitarian capitals point to a shift of the offensive, at least for the time being., from Br"- i to the Mediterranean and NTort,"j Africa. Three possible German movements thus offer themselves for examination. The first possibility would be a German offensive through tha tiaiKans into Turkey, for the pur pose of moving agafcist Suez and Egypt from Palestine. Thi3 operation oper-ation would run the danger of embroiling Russian interests in the Balkans. But if Stalin were to remain quiet, the Germans would have to face the great difficulty of crossing the Dardanelles or the Bosporus to get into Turkey. against the opposition of the Tur kish army. . Once that obstacle were overcome, over-come, it would be necessary to continue fighting southward for more than a thousand miles before be-fore the offensive had reached positions level with Suez. The aecend possible movement concerns direct reinforcement of an Italian offensive from Libya toward Egypt from the west. Graziani ha3 halted his advance (Continued on Page Six) Hf" : i: O It J WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (U.P Alien registration headquarters have filed the one-millionth return re-turn filled out by non-citizens in ihe mandatory survey ordered by congress. The count for the first 20 registration regis-tration days was 1,001,779 exceeding ex-ceeding the 36,000 daily average under which the survey would be completed by deadine, Dec. 28. There are an estimated 3 600 -000 aliens in the United States. Registration by states so far: Idaho, 1,564; Montana 2 and Utah, 2,543. ' ' AUI IT ms nit! h 'I read a fable once t" t reminded me of don't inike any how a crow dre; know what it li l'M.-ar its voice." It ' I . . V . I i i |