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Show The Weather Z?zM rfai County By Patronizing Local Stores and Business nouses UTAH: Fair Sunday, change in temperature. Max. temp., Saturday . Min. temp., Saturday . Little 55 - 24 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEPURAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. 18, NO. 24 I IT A IT'S ONI.T DAILY BOUT 1 1 OK SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1940 v( mm British Searching REM VJO UTMS Soon Grand Coulee Will Harness Mighty Columbia River - . . - -. . .. . . . - 1 10 12 EC POLL LS AT BY THE ED 1TO 11 Once again, selective service serv-ice offers the United States u chance to look itself squarely square-ly in the eye. We took a good look in 1917-18, and we didn't like what we saw. Low intelligence intelli-gence test ratings, all-too-high illiteracy, malnutrition, poor teeth all these things showed up in the mirror as we examined our young men. Now once again we hold up the mirror to a cross-section of young American men and what we see is not a cause for self-congratulation. Rejections for physical reasons reas-ons have run from 10 to 25 per cent of men sent to camp for induction, and of course many of the more obviously unfit had been rejected by Io oil draft boards before that final winnowing out. The standards of the army are not those of an Olympic athletic team. They require only good, normal health and capacity. Yet up to 25 per cent of young Americans fail to show even that. There are failures here, failures of public health, of education, of clinical facilities, facili-ties, of diet. A sensible people peo-ple will regard these revelations revela-tions not as something at which to wring ineffectual hands, but as a challenge. oOo Long after the football season sea-son is forgotten we'll still be 'ending about Ail-Americans. Those in the training camps. . . . When it comes to cleaning up Britain and mopping up Greece, Adolf and Benito are just a couple of scrubs. ... A lot of American youths are getting plane and higher education edu-cation all in one dose. . Where do some people get' the idea it's against the law to call a doctor before midnight. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Brass Ring to Senator Van-denberg, Van-denberg, Again G. O. IVs White Hope For 1941; Victory Vic-tory in Michigan Notable W h i 1 e Willkie Barely Squeaked Through; Once the Senate's "Young Turk" He's Now Republicans' Only Orator; His Coolness Toward To-ward Their Candidate Shared By Other Party Leaders. (Editor's .Note: With the famous Brass Ring, awarded this week to Senator Arthur Vandcnlierg of Slichlgan, goes one free ride on The Washington Wash-ington Mcrry-Go-Rouiid.) WASHINGTON As the tumult and the shouting over Willkie dies, it might be well to turn the spotlight back to another an-other Republican who twice has been on the very threshold of the GOP nomination, and who with the opening- of Congress will join a very select group in the United States Senate. He is Senator Arthur Vanden-bcrg Vanden-bcrg of Michigan, one of the tnugne.st free-for-all-fighters in the Senate, who on January 3 begins his third consecutive term. To serve three Senate terms may seem commonplace to a public which remembers the long records rec-ords of Borah, Ashurst. Smith, and Norris. But the fact is that while many of the Democrats now in the Senate have served three or more terms, the past decade has seen so many thumping thump-ing Democratic majorities that only six Republicans can boast that distinction. Vandenberg is one o them. Unquestionably he became an "elder statesman" only by the .kinof his teeth. But he got there. And the chances are that after four more stormy years, the (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) KNOX ASKS FUNDS FOR SHIP ALTERATIONS WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 l.i: Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today to-day asked congress to authorize 300,000.000 worth of alterations on naval vessels to afford them greatec protection against air attack. UPPORI FOR ARBAGE PLAN Business Men 10 To 1 In Favor Of City Operating Plan Early returns in the gar bage disposal survey being made in the Provo residential section indicate the people favor a city-wide, systematic disposal system by about a two-ton-one majority, Mayor Mark Anderson said Saturday. Satur-day. Of 163 returned questionnaires opened at random Saturday morning, morn-ing, 111 were in favor and 52 were opposed, the mayor said. Of those in favor, 95 want once-a-week service and two want twice-a-week service. Mayor Anderson said the survey sur-vey in the business district is virtually completed, and that the merchants are 10 to 1 in favor. Home Rule Charters The mayor Saturday received a telegram from City Commissioner Maurice Harding, who with other city officials are studying garbage gar-bage and refuse disposal systems on the Pacific coast. Said Commissioner Harding: "We have investigated garbage disposa? systems in Sacramento and the Bay cities, and are ready to begin study in the Los Angeles Ange-les area. We have learned much concerning methods cf operation, kind of equipment, and ti.ianci.il problems. A2i cities visited derive de-rive authority from home rule charters instead of statutory enactments."' en-actments."' . Mayor Anderson said th2 home rule charter system would be investigated in-vestigated as a possible means of enabling the city to set up an adequate fee collection system for the disposal program without state legislation. Killed in California 'Crash LANCASTER, Cal., Dec. 7 U.P The toll of a collision between a school bus and an army station wagon rose to five today with the death in Community hospital of 14 -year-old Howard McCaleb. Young McCaleb was the first to die of 13 students involved in the accident. The four other victims vic-tims were inspectors attached to the army air corps at Riverside, Cal., Hiid an enlisted army man. Two students are seriously injured. The crash occurred on a desert luglAvay northeast of Los Angeles as the inspectors were returning to March Field, Cal., from a trip to Muroc Field. Killed were: Edwin Oshmond, 48, and Neel Urling, 49, both Riverside, inspectors: in-spectors: Clifford Noytes, Crestline, Crest-line, Cat, inspector, and William Grant Scarth, 19, enlisted army man, the driver. U. S. Aid Pledged To King of Greece WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 U.E President Roosevelt, in an exchange ex-change of telegrams with King George II of Greece, today pledged United States aid to the country "which is defending itself so valiantly" vali-antly" against aggression. The president advised the Greoi Monarch . that it is "the settled policy of the United States gov-ernnment gov-ernnment to extend aid to those governments and peoples who defend de-fend themselves against aggression." aggres-sion." The president's message wa3 sent in response to one from King George, expressing appreciation for the "warm sympathy and the keen interest manifested by the great nation whose destines- you guide." , ;OVEIlNOItS TO MKKT IN SALEM SALEM, Ore., Dec. 7 U.i: Sig-fiid Sig-fiid Unander, executive assistant to the governor, will represent Gov. Charles A. Spraguc at the Salt Lake City conference of governors gov-ernors on national defense Wednesday. WAE Seeks More Direct Route From Los Angeles to Denver LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 (U.R) Western Air Express, one of the oldest airlines in the west, is seeking seek-ing permission to open a new route from Los Angeles to Denver, Den-ver, Colo., which it claims will cut the flying time to the east by two Hours. An application for the new route was filed last night with the civil aeronautics board, it was annouc-ed annouc-ed by William A. Coulter, presi - SJ i Almost ready to begin its mighty task of harnessing the Columbia River in Eastern Washington for flood con-roi. con-roi. navigation, power and later irrigation, Grand Coulee Dam stands near completion. The spillway has :ccn concreted to its full height and those "chimneys" dong the top of the center third of the structure are piers to support the highway, bridge which will span the great waterway. 1 sfifr tffirn wwi Oisec to 85 Feot 'Above Qiuer Bed Placing of 64,000 cubic yards of earth in the embankment during dur-ing November has raised the elevation of the Deer Creek dam to 85 feet, and but 470,000 yards remain to l3 placed for completion comple-tion of the embankment, according accord-ing to XT. S. reclamation officials. The 64,000 yards were placed during the fore part of the month, as rains and snows caused suspension sus-pension of operations by the Rohl-Connolly Rohl-Connolly company in mid-month. It is doubtful if further work on the embankment will be done until spring". Only work going on at present at the dam is at the outlet works. According to reclamation officials, of-ficials, work is progressing satisfactorily sat-isfactorily on the Alpine-Draper tunnel, the Duchesne tunnel, and the Salt Lake valley aqueduct, other p"hases of the Provo river project. StoSiowslii Plan Id Rcpsat Goncort PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 7 (UP) Lcoold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Phila-delphia orchestra planned today to repeat their performance of Arnold Ar-nold Schoenberg's concerto for violin vio-lin and orchestra tonight despite the fact patrons walked out on the- performance yesterday. Stokowski offered Schocnberg's concerto as a world premier of the Atonal composition, written in the Schocnbcrg 12-tonc scale and played by Louis Krasner, Boston violinist. Most of the disgruntled patrons returned to hear the orchestra play Sibelius' symphony No. 7 and the prelude and love death from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Critics were harsh in their treatment of the Schoenberg premiere. pre-miere. One described it as "market "mar-ket street on New Year's eve," another referred to it as "that sound of tortured catgut." Two Appointed To Be Jury Commissioners George F. Shelley, Republican of American Fork, and Thomas fleece. Democrat of Payson, Saturday Sat-urday were named as Utah county coun-ty jury commissioners for the Fourth district court. Their job is to select from the list of registered voters a list of some 1500 taxpayers from which the jurors for 1941 may be chosen. dent of Western Air. The proposed route is via Las Vegas, Nev., and Grand Junction, Colo. Coulter disclosed that his company com-pany has been studying the proposed pro-posed line for three years, conducting con-ducting numerous engineering surveys. Through an interchange of. equipment. Western Air Express Ex-press and United Airlines now fly their planes east by way of Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. - ... . V,..- r. 500 Attend B.Y. U. Journalist Confab Addresses by outstanding journalists, awarding of three B. Y. U. scholarships, and panel discussions on important problems, featured the eighth annual conference of inter-mountain inter-mountain h?gh school journalists at Brigham Young uni- Five hundred students from 60 high schools, two junior high schools, and four junior colleges attended the meet, which was directed by Dr. Carlton Culmsee, head of the B. Y. U. Journalism department and director of the extension division. The conference was combined with the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing by Johann Gutenberg, and represented Utah's major observance of; this anniver sary. Editorial Ontcst Major addresses of the day were given by E. R. Rasmuson, editor of the Daily Herald; Arthur Gaeth, instructor in history at BYU; Alva L. Scoville, Ogden printing authority, and Dr. P. A. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, head of the BYU English department. A highlight was the editorial writing contest in charge of Oliver Oli-ver R. Smith of the BYU journalism journal-ism department. Three $25 scholarships schol-arships to Brigham Young university uni-versity were given winners in high school girls, high school boys, and junior college departments. J. M. Demos of Provo, student at Weber junior college, won in the junior college division with his editorial, "The Flaming Torch." D. C. Watson Jr. of Dixie and Ellen Humilton of Ricks college col-lege won honorable mention. In the high school girls' division. divis-ion. Miss Polyana Evans of Grand county high nt Moab, won the scholarship, with Fontclla Porter and Chrystal Rasmussen of Provo high and Ruth England of Tooele high winning honorable mention. There were 44 entries in thi3 division. di-vision. Jerry Storrs of Provo high school won the scholarship in the high school boys division, with Robert Bean, Jay Butler and Paul McGuire, all of Provo, getting honorable hon-orable mention. Seventeen students entered the competition in this division. "The gun of a dictator can wreck a fortress at 50 miles but the printing press can shatter an I empire at a range of 1000 years," declared Mr. Kasmuson in his (Continued on Page Three; Euans Appointed To Church Pest SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7 U.i: President Heber J. Grant of the Latter-Day Saints church today to-day had announced appointment of Frank Evans, church leader and prominent Utah attorney, as secretary for finance to the church first presidency. In this capacity, Evans will handle most Mormon financial affairs and will advise the church on legal matters. Evans, president of the L.D.S. eastern states mission from 1937 to 1940, is a native of Utah, a World War veteran and a graduate grad-uate of the University of Utah and Brigham Young university. IDA1IOAN INJURED IN GUN MISHAP WEISER. Ida.. Dec. 7 (U.n Ray Schultz, 50, Cambridge service serv-ice station operator, was in serious seri-ous condition in a hospital today as the result of accidental discharge dis-charge of a shotgun. The gun discharged when Schultz was removing it from his car, and the charge lodged in his left side. J ,10 k 'i 8. L. Octcctivcs Study Glues in lafohol Moreler , SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7 0JJ! -Detectives .said they were at r.-nVt1" te"nipoV;iil!y"Tsli! rn ped " today in their Httempts to solve the mys tery ' ax-murder of Mrs. Anna Christine Hallen, 78-year-old wealthy Salt Lake City widow. "We have several avenues of investigation open and we're deciding' de-ciding' now which to follow," one detective said., although he declined declin-ed to discuss details of the "avenues." "ave-nues." Struck Several Tlme Mrs. Hallen was found dead in the basement of her Liberty park district homo late Thursday. She had been struck several times with a sharp ax. Her home had been ransacked but officers said the ransacking miRht have been simulated simu-lated by the slayer with the hope of putting police on a faulty trail. Sought for questioning was a man whom officers said had lived with the thrice-inurried Mrs. HaU len and who had been introduced to neighbors as a half-brother of the woman. An attorney said the man and Mrs. Hallen came to his office some time ago and sought to break a court-imposed trust company's guardianship of the widow's estate. The attorney said that when the attempt to break the guardianship, imposed on the grounds the woman was incompetent incompe-tent to handle her own money, failed, the "half-brother" left Salt Lake City and later married another an-other woman. The attorney said the man used the name of Erik Anderson, actually actu-ally a half-brother of the murdered mur-dered woman. The true half-brother half-brother has been located by police in Chicago, where he has lived for many years, and told officers he would come here to assist in .the investigation of his half-sister's death. This Day . . . HORN Boy, to Thomas J. and Mary Ellen Oa vis Holdcn. Saturday. - Boy, to Don A, and Muriel Clau-son Clau-son Jensen, Friday. LICENSED TO RLVKRY Don Ray Giles, 2.3, Eureka, and Jean Greenhalgh, 19, Eureka. Utah Twins Born On Different Days RICHFIELD, Utah, Dec. 7 U.E) The twin children of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Cowley of Richfield will celebrate different birthdays. The first, a boy, arrived at ten minutes to midnight. The second twin, a girl, showed up at ten minutes after midnight. LLED h ACCIDENTS S. L. Motorcycle Rider, Track Walker Die In Accidents Death of two Utahns in accidents Saturday had raised rais-ed Utah's 1940 traffic toll to 156 lives, six per cent above the 147 recorded for the same period in 1939 and only four less than for all of last year. Ben W. Savage', 22, of Salt Lake City, died following a motorcycle-automobile crash, while Mike Husak, 31, of Elko, Nevada, was killed when struck by a freight train near North Salt Lake. SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 7 U.E) Ben W. Savage, 22, son of a Salt Lake county deputy sheriff, was killed last night when a motorcycle mo-torcycle he was riding'crashed into the rear of an automobile that was turning into a residential driveway. drive-way. He was Utah's 156th traffic victim of 1940. The driver of the car, Donald Parry, 18, told officers he was proceeding slowly, preparatory to turning, when the motorcycle struck his car. Savage's borrowed machine was demolished. Parry's car was badly damaged. '. BOUNTIFUL, Utah, Dec. 7 U.E Davis county sheriff's officers today termed accidental the death of Mike Husak, 31, killed yesterday yester-day by a freight train while he was' walking on Union Pacific tracks n?ar North Salt Lake City Papers indicated Husak's home was in Elko, Nev., although his mother, Mrs. Mary Husak, lived In Smoke Run, Pa. STRIKE SPREADS TO PORTLAND Portland, Ore.. Dec. T r.f The strike in the northwest lumber lum-ber industry which has closed virtually all western Washington mills spread to Portland today when CIO pickets caused stoppage of work at the Clark-Wilson Lumber Lum-ber company and a union spokesman spokes-man said eight other CIO bills will probably be tied up early next week, i The strike action came after a CIO negotiating committee decis- j ion was approved last night by the executive board of local No. 3 of the International Woodworkers of America. Other mills which are likely to be drawn into the walkout walk-out are all manned by CIO crews. More than 10,000 men already were idle in the mills and logging camps, and another 2,400 would he added to the striking ranks if the Portland mills closed. The strike threatened serious curtailment of rational defense projects, particularly army cantonments can-tonments in Alaska, the canal zone, Hawaii, California and the northwest. More than 25 per cent of the output of northwest mills now is being diverted to national defense. BODV RECOVERED NAMPA, Ida., Dec. 7 (U.E) Canyon Can-yon county officers today recovered recov-ered the body of Floyd Whitegn, 24, who drowned when the car he was' driving plunged from a bridge into the New York canal, five miles southeast of here. -rr Martin Elected Of 20-30 ., -A-.--.W.vv.V..,-A'A'A h KENNETH L. MARTIN 4 Tu A 11M unci Greek Armies Smash Slowly Forward On Albanian Al-banian War Front; Fascist Leader Resigns As Island Governor By JOE ALEX MOKRIS United Tress Foreign News Editor A British naval search for a powerful German warship in American waters was reported today, as Greek armies smashed slowly forward on the Albanian war front and Rome disclosed another military shake-up affecting the strategic Dodecanese Islands. Dispatches from Montevideo said that the powerful British battleship Warspite, carrying four airplanes and making 24 knots, was racing northward along the coast of Brazil in search for the Nazi) raider that battled the British merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle Cas-tle on Wednesday. Troops Flown From Italy Sea war close to the Americas waa an important phase of land, air and naval developments centering cen-tering around the continued Greek advance in Albania against Italian lines recently reinforced by troops flown from Italy defending defend-ing Tepelini and Elbasan. The important . south Albanian town of Argyrokastron still was not officially of-ficially claimed by the Greeks, although al-though Italians have been abandoning aban-doning it for several days. Another surprise announcement at Rome disclosed that Cesare Maria De Vecchi, one of the original orig-inal Fascist leaders, had resigned as governor and military commander com-mander of the Dodecanese, and that Gen. Ettore Bastico has been named to succeed him. Appointment Made Following appointment of Gen. Ugi Cavallero to succeed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as chief of staff, the change of command at the Dodecanese emphasized the effects ef-fects of a powerful British blockade block-ade of the islands off the coast of Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. Mediterran-ean. On the Albanian front, the Greek armies that cultured Porto Edda and sought to close in on Argyrokastron and Elbasan were -reported - making : Mow - progress, but Italy was said to have flown many reinforcements to the Albanian Al-banian front in the last four Jays. The intensification of the sea war continued to cause greatest concern at London, and the Daily Mail published a frank plea for United States naval forces to con- (Continued on Page Three) DoocQvcIt Enjoys CariMoan Gruis ABOARD U. S. S. MAYRANT, in the Caribbean, Dmc. 7 U.E President Roosevelt took time off today from inspecting United State Caribbean, defenses to study mall from Washington. He worked in his shirt sleeves, for it was hot on this fifth day of his tour of United States bases and the sites of those acquired from Great Britain In a trade of 50 over-age destroyers. The sea was calm and the cruiser Tuscaloosa, carrying the president presi-dent and his aides, and the accompanying accom-panying destroyers Mayrant and Trippe were making 19 and one-half one-half knots. The mail, informing Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt of late diplomatic developments develop-ments as well as important domestic do-mestic problems, was delivered to the Tuscaloosa by two navy patrol planes near an island. President Club In Provo Kenneth L. Martin, timekeeper at the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe "company for the past six years, was elected president of the Provo 20-30 club for the ensuing six months at the semi-annual election meeting. He succeeds Elmo El-mo Peters. Mr. Martin has been a member of the 20-30 club ince March, 1938. He had served as acting vice president recently, taking the place of Joy N. Olsen, who moved to Eureka, i Harold Ward of Anderson's garage was elected vice president for the next term. Grant Ward, .also , of, Anderson's garage, was named sergeant-at-arms, succeeding succeed-ing Vaughn Taylor. The Twenty-Thirtians elected Willard Mintun, Arthur L. Duck-ett, Duck-ett, Bert Olsen and Harold Field as new members of the board of directors. Past President Peters automatically becomes a member of the board. A large delegation of Provo members went to Ogden Saturday to attend the district convention at which National President V. G-(Skip) G-(Skip) Wolfe, of Orange, California, Califor-nia, was a speaker. icm Waters FOREIGN LOANS DENOUNCED BY FOUR SENATORS WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 U.R) Four senators two of them staunch isolationists denounced today any use of the treasury's $2,000,000,000 currency stabilization stabiliza-tion fund to aid "a foreign nation." na-tion." Their denunciations were directed di-rected ostensibly at the treasury plan to stabilize Argentine currency cur-rency with a $50,000,000 loan. But they came as reports circulated the treasury could legally lend money to Britain from the fund despite the Johnson and the neutrality neu-trality acts. . In opposing the treasury's plans to aid Argentina, Sens. Bennett C. Clark, I)., Mo., John A. Dana-her. Dana-her. R.. Conn.. Alva B. Adams, n.. Colo., and Clvde Herrine. D.. I;,., said I hat they also opposed further "foreign - manipulations" with the stabilization fund. Clark and Adams are isolationists and their vie,ws were similar to those expressed by isolationist Senator Robert A. Taft, R., O. Taft's specific spe-cific complaint was against the treasury's $50,000,000 currency stabilization loan to China. He qualified his opposition by saying say-ing he favored the principle of American aid to China. The denunciations came while an Argentine mission was completing com-pleting details of the proposed loan with treasury officials and a British financial missioh prepared an "empire balance sheet" for Morgenthau, in order to give him "an accurate picture" of Britain's financial position. The head cf the British mission. Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecretary undersec-retary of treasury, conferred with more than un hour with Morgenthau Morgen-thau and other fiscal experts yesterday yes-terday in the first of a scries of conferences. Merle Cochran, di-director di-director of the treasury stabilization stabiliza-tion fund, was at the meeting. Charity Ball to Be Held Dec. 14 The annual Christmas charity ball sponsored by the Provo Elks will be held December 14 at the Elks home, announces Bob Bullock, Bul-lock, chairman. Proceeds from the dance will be used in staging the annual Christmas morning party for needy, children. The public will be invited to the dance. "We 'have arranged for a fine orchestra, and a Christmas Christ-mas theme will bo carried out." Mr. Bullock said. 4- AUNT HET By ROBERT QCIIXEN "It wems silly to write your own husband a letter when he's at home, but when I talk, he talks back and gets me off on some other subject before I'm through." |