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Show The Weather UTAH Increasing cloudlnea Sunday; light ruin or snow w-t ,ortion Sunday afternoon. Build Utah Count) By Patronizing Local Stores and Easiness noose Maximum temp. Saturday Minimum temp. Saturday, . 44 23 VOL. 18, NO. 27 UTAH'S OXLT DAILY SOUTH OF. SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1940 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEl'ORAPH NEWS SEKVICB PRICE FIVE CENTS 11 II Cltel II IffelltlCi yy.yyyyy.xw.V mm zwyyyyyy&fyyyyyyyyyj& DESK CHAT BY TILE EDITOtt The United States is going to have to walk a precarious tight-rope during the next few years between prices and wages. We are not at war, and we may not be at war, yet something some-thing very close to a war economy hA.s been forced upon up-on us. In such an economy, prices of ordinary civilian goods tend to rise, because so much of national production and energy ener-gy is drained off into war goods, that civilian goods tend to fall behind demand and thus rise in price. To meet these rises, wages must increase in-crease in proportion if standards stand-ards are to be maintained. In European war-economy coun-tries coun-tries these relationships have been maintained by bullyragging bullyrag-ging and bullet. Democratic Canada is in advance of us in facing these problems. It has managed to keep a balance between wages and prices by a Wartime Prices and Trade Board. It is now setting up conciliation boards which will try to keep wages and living costs in adjustment. ad-justment. Canadian experience experi-ence in these matters ought to be of the greatest value to the United States we should chart closely the trail they have blazed. oOo Sense and Non-Sense It's getting harder and harder to respect gray hairs ... so many are being dyed black. ... A Nebraska couple eloped in a plane. . . . Lots of young people fly high right at first. . . ". Have you noticed how many ; wrecks there are in a one - tracS mind? . . . Maybe women forgive for-give more easily than men because they get more opportunity oppor-tunity to practice. 'So They Say: "If we want peace we must be stronger than those who want war." -Admiral H. R. Stark, chief of naval operations. "The only reason in God's world that I am in this organization or-ganization is to keep this country out of war." William Wil-liam Allen White of the Aid-the-Allies committee. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN N e w British Ambassador Was Behind Proposal To Lend Franco 100 Million; Sought To Retrieve Errors in Civil War by Securing Spain's Neutrality; Policy Proposed to U. S. Through, Anti-Loyalist State Department Depart-ment Clique; Difference' Between Welles and Hull Solved Without Appeal To President. WASHINGTON Secretary of State Hull has taken issue with a recent Washington Merry - Go-Round Go-Round column in which it was reported re-ported that there had been differences differ-ences of opinion inside the state department regarding a proposed $100,000,000 credit to the Franco government in Spain, and that he had been persuaded by the "Cro-' quet Clique'" inside the state department de-partment to favor such a credit. Two days after publication of the article Secretary Hull characterized char-acterized it as "wholly inaccurate," inaccur-ate," said it was "a complete misrepresentation; mis-representation; all the earmarks, and every other phase that is (Continued on Page Seven) WHEELER TO SPEAK WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U.E Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., will oppose President Roosevelt's loan-lease plan of British aid in a radio speech at 10 p. m., EST., Monday. The address will be broadcast over the NBC blue network. 0: S. WEIGHS El BRITISH AID PROPOSAL FDR to Discuss "Present "Pres-ent Emergency" in Radio bpeech WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U.R)- Administration quarters quar-ters are considering informally informal-ly the feasibility of supplying Great Britain with some army planes and additional destroyers to "tide them over" until American armaments arma-ments production picks up, it was learned today. , The plan orginated among officials of-ficials concerned with the defense program and British aid, but has not yet been submitted to President Presi-dent Roosevelt for a decision. Whether the proposal certain to face at least nominal opposition from some generals and admirals will win Mr. Roosevelt's ultimate ulti-mate approval, is a matter of conjecture con-jecture and may hinge on war developments. de-velopments. The proposals stems from a prevalent belief in many government govern-ment circles that the next few months will be critical for Britain, Brit-ain, and there is an acute need to supplement British arms orders with existing equipment. Tomorrow night Mr. Roosevelt goes on the air to report to the nation on the "present emergency" emerg-ency" and to give some specific information on administration plans to help Britain including his own plan for the United States to buy war materials and loan or lease them to the British. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said suggestions on what the president should talk about have been pouring into the White (Continued on Page Eight) Defense Budget illi To Be Sofimitted WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (C.E) A double budget, of around $10,-COO.000,000 $10,-COO.000,000 for defense and $7,-. 000,000,000 to $8,000,000,000 for regular governmental operations during fiscal year 1942 will probably prob-ably be submitted to congress by President Roosevelt on Jan. 7. Officials said there would be "a sharp cleavage" between the two parts of the budget, which will come close to the record high of more than $18,000,000,000 during 1918. The non-military section of the budget, it was believed, will be brought approximately into balance bal-ance by governmental receipts which most officials estimate will range between $7,000,000,000 and $8,000,000,000. Military appropriations of $10,-000,000,000. $10,-000,000,000. it was believed, would be ample to finance aid to Britain that might later be worked out under the president's plan to lend arms to the British. The size of the defense expenditures, expendi-tures, it was said, depends to a great extent on the physical problem prob-lem of production. City Sets Hearing On Revised Budget Public hearing on the revised Provo city budget for 1940 will be held Tuesday at 10 a. m. in city commission chambers, according ac-cording to Mary F. Smith, auditor. audi-tor. Appropriations in the general fund were originally $223,080, but an increase of $15,475.65 is necessary, neces-sary, Mrs. Smith said. Because of the purchase of materials ma-terials for the "canyon aqueduct, including enough to last most o 1941, it is also necessary to hike the waterworks budget by $35,000, it was pointed out. Volunteers Needed For County's Second Selective Service Quota If Utah county's second quota of manpower for a year's selective service training is to be filled by volunteers instead of by draft, additional men must - volunteer before January 17, according to Sylvan W. Clark, chairman of District 22. Eighteen volunteers have registered reg-istered with District 22, which includes Provo and northern communities com-munities in the county. The district dis-trict quota is 23. Vacancies still exist in the southern communties of the county, coun-ty, from where 11 men will be taken for service. If sufficient volunteers enlist, no one will be drafted. Auto-Train Crash Kill Two At S. L. Utah Traffic Toll Hikes To 1G6; Four Killed -in Arizona Crash SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 28 (U.R) Two Los Angeles residents were killed 4 today when their automobile was struck broadside by a Denver Den-ver and Rio Grande Western passenger train at a Salt Lake City' crossing. Sheriff's officers Identified the victims from papers found on their bodies as Mrs. Nellie Emerson, Emer-son, about 46, and Charles A. Thomas. The engineer of the train said the car, which Thomas apparently was driving, slowed down as though to stop as it approached the crossing. As the locomotive neared, the auto quickened its speed again. The locomotive struck it by the driver's door. Killed Instantly Both occupants were dead upon arrival at Salt Lake general hospital. hos-pital. The automobile was demolished. de-molished. ' The accidents raised Utah's 1940 highway death toll to 166, six more than registered in all of 1939. FLAGSTAFF,' Ariz., Dec. 28 d'.R) How does an automobile and its occupants fare from an 1,800 foot plunge into a canyon? Sheriff Arthur Candevier, who directed the recovery of four bodies from the bottom of Oak CreH canyon, said today that "every bone" in them was broke. and that they were mutilated al most beyond recognition. The automobile was a shapeless pile of junk, unworthy of salvage. The victims, whose automobile yesterday broke through four guard rails along the 1,800 foot deep canyon, were identified as Walter Witten, 26. of Salinas. Calif.; a woman, about 22, believed be-lieved to have been his wife; Le-Roy Le-Roy Hinds, 24, and Deats Boyds-ton, Boyds-ton, 20, of Carnegie, Okla. INSTITUTE AT HOSPITAL SET With "Professional Growth" as its theme, an institute for nurses of the Utah Valley hospital will be held January 4 by the hospital as a part of an educational program pro-gram for nurses. Miss Phoebe Kandel, director of nursing, Greeley State college, will conduct morning and afternoon after-noon sessions. Miss Kandel has recently conducted graduate courses for nurses of Salt Lake City. All graduate nurses of the district dis-trict are invited to attend the sessions, which begin at 10 a.m. and 2 p. m. Greek Sub Sink 3 Italian Ship ATHENS, Dec. 28 UJR) The Greek admiralty claimed tonight that the Greek submarine Papani-colis Papani-colis torpedoed and sank three Italian transports aggregating more than 30,000 tons, in the Adriatic the day before Christmas. Christ-mas. The admiralty said that the Italian transports were intercepted inter-cepted between Valona and Brin-disi Brin-disi while transporting troops and supplies from Italy to Albania. The Papanicolis is a submarine of 576 tons, built for Greece in France in 1926. , The admiralty reported that the transports were sunk north of the Straits of Otranto while under convoy by a considerable number of Italian warships. The second group will be called for service January 22. As all persons per-sons to be called must be notified five days before departure, volunteers volun-teers must be approved before January 17 to be accepted. Volunteers from District 22 who have been accepted, in the order they will be taken, are : Alva Nicol, Provo; Kim Peterson, Provo; Kenneth McDaniel and Lyman Terry, Alpine; Richard Bennett Dudley, American Fork; Rex D. Bray, Provo; Reed B. Newman, Pleasant Grove f Arthur A. Nielsen, Niel-sen, Provo; Ivan Jacob, Pleasant Grove; Leonard Allen and Harold Marion Paxman, American Fork; (Continued on Page Eight) Charity Begins At f . fir 5 v 'J fi P 'kJ Fearful of the hardships winter prison camps by the Germans, up old clothes for the prisoners. making the rounds in Paris. Farm, Home Conference Planned February 11-14 National authorities will participate in a conference on farm, home, and youths problems in Provo on February 11, 12, 13, and 14, it was announced Saturday by S. R. Boswell, county agricultural agent. Such leaders as Dr. Lowry Nel- Figures Reueal Business Gain At Post Cffi Mail during1 the Christmas rush period' at the' Provo 'post office showed an 18 per cent increase over the 1939 period, J, ! W. Dangerfield reported Saturday. ' Total sales December 13 to December 25, which were $7,026.-20, $7,026.-20, were $1,091.26 more than the 1939 total of $5,934.94, the report re-port showed. The cancelling machine count from December 16 to 25, inclusive, showed a 38,310 increase over the 1939 county, 232,670 having been cancelled this year. Outgoing mail sacks during the rush period totalled 1,970, . which was 464 more than last year. An increase of 451 -sacks was shown in incoming mail, 2,760 sacks having been received here during the period, Dangerfield pointed out. Show Planned for Raising Funds to Assist Guardsmen To raise funds for "extras" for the national guard, which leaves under mobilization orders early next year, a variety show will be staged in Provo soon under the direction of the Provo chamber of commerce, with civic organiza tions cooperating. Plans for the show will be developed de-veloped Monday at a meeting of club representatives at 5 p. m. in offices of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. Preliminary plans were drawn up Friday. Wyman Berg was named by acclamation as chairman of the entertainment. He will be assisted by LeRoy Olsen of Kiwani3 club; Eugene Speakman of the Lions; Dr. J. C. Moffitt of Provo city schools; Kenneth W. Bailey of the American Legion; Ken Martin of 20-30 club; Hugh Jolley of the Elks club; Paul Robbley of the Exchange club, and others. Funds will probably be earmarked ear-marked for use by the 145th Field Artillery, of which the Provo units are a part, under recommendation of T. C. Hebertson, captain of Battery F here. Communities throughout the state are assisting in the drive to raise $15,000 to provide athletic equipment, recreational facilities, and to sponsor social activities. 60 ITALIAN PLANES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ATHENS, Dec. 28 U.E Reviewing Re-viewing the first two months of the Italo-Greek war a spokesman for the Royal Air Force said officially of-ficially today that 50 Italian planes were known to have been destroyed in Albania and Greece and 16 others probably were destroyed. de-stroyed. British bombers and four fighters fight-ers crashed or were shot down, he said, Home In France . ..... rr .m Y - " 1 - I s . i x. ' ' , ' t 4 1 ' . . - , ; . v, J v i. . Si W- - ' f r i f 3 - i i .... . . , will bring to French soldiers held in French school children are rounding Above,- a collection crew is pictured ison, professor of rural sociology at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. E. D. Tetreau, rural sociologist of the - University of Arizona, will address representatives representa-tives of both . urban and rural groups meeting in the First ward chapel. Utah Groups Appearance of famous men in the fields of social and agricultural agricul-tural problems is being made 1 posaibl by-the co-operation of the U. S. department of agriculture with Utah groups. Local organizations organ-izations assisting in the preparation prepara-tion of the conference program are the Utah county planning board, the state junior chamber of commerce, the farm security admmistup-tAonk Brighom Young university, and the Provo Youth councU. Lee R. Taylor of Payson, head of the county, planning board,, is general chairman. . Other mem bers of the .board all of whom are assisting toward the conference, confer-ence, are Mr. Boswell, C D. Ash-ton, Ash-ton, assistant county agricultural agent, Bessie K. Lemon, home demonstration agent, and George W. Brown, farm finance chairman, who ; is assistant secretary of the national farm loan associations. Representing the junior chamber cham-ber of commerce on the committee commit-tee are Albert Freestone, M$xk Egjrertsen. and Eddie Nicholson. The farm security administration is represented by w. R. Dunkley, DeVon Stewart. and Nnrma Smith. Dr. Carlton Culmsee, di rector of, the extension division, B. Y. U., and Arthur Gaeth, chairman chair-man of the Provo Youth rnuncil are also on the committee. Tentative plans call for panel discussions and lectures on urgent. problems of youth, the home, and tne iarm. Invitations will be sent to club women, junior chamber of commerce com-merce members, farm groups, and members of other organizations in all parts of Utah. The general public also may attend. Officers Probe Mystery Murder MALTA, Mont., Dec. 28 ZX. County authorities believed today they had a murder mystery on their hands. The body of a man found atop a haystack near here Sunday was identified tentatively as that of Ruric Rainwater, 26, ranch worker work-er who disappeared last June. Sheriff's officers believed he was strangled with $a handkerchief, robbed of the small sum of money he carried, and his body hidden in the haystock. PRISONER LIST SET AT 38,114 CAIRO, Dec. 28 (UJR) British middle east headquarters reported report-ed today the number of Italian prisoners captured in the drive into Libya has risen to 38,114, including in-cluding 24,845 Italian soldiers. The remainder are Libyan native troops. GREEKS GO THROUGH ITALLVN DEFENSE ATHENS, Dec. 28 L'J? A government, gov-ernment, spokesman said tonight that Greek mountain patrols operating oper-ating north of Chimafa broke through Italian defense lines today to-day and occupied mountain positions posi-tions 3,000-feet above sea level. MAYOR CITES PROVO CITY'S '40 PROGRESS Improvements Listed By Mayor Anderson At City Party "Provo as a community has prospered and progressed during the past year, despite the fact that we have had more than our share of persons per-sons on relief," Mayor Mark Anderson told city employees Saturday evening at the annual an-nual city party. Citing, major accomplishments of the city during the past year, Mayor Anderson listed the addition addi-tion of the Provo city light and power department as one of the city's outstanding , achievements. Completion of many public Improvement Im-provement projects and the utilization util-ization of federal appropriations were also listed as important accomplishments ac-complishments during the "past year. - "The municipal power plant has exceeded expectations,'' Mayor Anderson said. "Our prediction that the plant would net the city $100,000 a year was conservative. It will do that after giving the people a discount on rates that will total $30,000 a year,'' he pointed out. ' Pledging Provo's support to the national defense program, the mayor said that the expense of preparing for defense would make it necessary for local governments govern-ments to cut costs on every hand to pave the way for the defense program. In connection with national defense, de-fense, home guard units will be set up a program the city favors, he said. "When these unita are organized here, I hope some of our city employees wiU join," he stated. "Democracy will never be dis-ca'iid dis-ca'iid in this country if we all do our duty," was the mayor's answer an-swer to those who claim that democracy is qn, trial. "It ia up to local leaders as much as to national leaders to make democratic demo-cratic government work in sucTT.a (Continued oh Page Eight) NATION BATHED IN RAIN STORM BY UNITED PRESS Rain fell over most of the nation na-tion Saturday with storms most intense in the southeast corner and along the northern border. The southern storm moved up from the Mississippi river delta and traveled northeastward over Alabama causing rainfall over most of the eastern half of the nation. Gale force winds were pre-dicTed pre-dicTed north of the Delaware breakwater to Block Island. Along the southern coastal area east of Galveston, Tex., all shipping ship-ping was halted because the wind had churned the gulf into mountainous waves. Rains continued falling on the west coast, already drenched by a fall of several days. Rivers-were Rivers-were running high, but damage reported was not extensive. The disturbance whjch crossed the Washington coast line Thursday moved eastward over the Dako-tas, Dako-tas, carrying rain to the northern Rockies and plain states. The middle west, caught between be-tween the southern and northern storms, reported rain and light snow with slightly lower temperatures. tempera-tures. This Day . . . LICENSED TO MCARRY Arthur Winters. 25, Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, and Donna Tucker, 17, Fair-view. Valley's First 1941 Baby To Be Welcomed With Gifts By WAYNE KEARL Mostly it isn't considered such an extra special event when a baby is born in Utah Valley hospital. hos-pital. Of course, it is a pretty big event for the baby himself, and for his parents and their friends and relatives. But the rest of the Valley goes right on about its business as though nothing noth-ing out of the ordinary had hap pened. But this won't be the case Wed nesday. The whole valley wiU be waiting for an answer to the question ques-tion of the hour: "Who will be the RAF Somtrsrs Poimc! Ai German Bases, Harbors In Fierce 24-Hour. Raid Base At Lorient, Coast From Norway to Bordeaux Targets for Raids; German Movements in Balkans Explained By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor British bombers pounded the Nazi submarine base at Lorient, France, in a daylight attack today, after blasting the invasion coast from Norway to Bordeaux in the past 24 hours, as inspired Axis press comment inveighed against purported British plans to use the United States and Eire to circumvent the German sea blockade of the British Isles. ' Two attacks on Lorient .were pressed home today by what the British air ministry called "large forces" of bomb- Italy Warns U. S. On Sea "Violations" BY REYNOLDS PACKARD ROME, Dec. 28 (L'.m Virginio Gayda warned the Giornale d" Italia today that delivery of American Am-erican war material to Britain in United States ships by way of Ireland would te an open violation viola-tion of United States ; neutrality. Key Fascist newspapers 'said the United States would risk involving in-volving both itself and Ireland in the war if it attempted to send supplies to Great Britain via Ireland Ire-land in American ships. Gayda, close to the foreign office of-fice and at times Premier Benito Mussolini's spokesman, warned the United States Japan would intervene immediately under the terms of its military alliance with Germany and Italy if the United States openly violated its neutrality. neutrali-ty. He said . the ' British were at tempting to spread the European war to the western hemisphere. "American shipping to Ireland for England would be an open violation vio-lation of neutrality and would equal United States intervention in the conflict," Gayda said. "United "Un-ited States interventionists would be responsible for spreading the conflict from Europe to North America and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Whatever may happen, hap-pen, England is condemned. Am erican interventionists must recall re-call the tri-partite pact and the fact that Japan, with ample means at its disposal, is witching the situation sit-uation and won't permit spreading spread-ing of the European conflict." "Does not London realize that an attempt to make Ireland a bridge between the United States and Britain would immediately involve in-volve both Ireland and the United States in the conflict?" asked the influential Popolo di Roma. Japanccs Aid In Arming Jazi Ship BY ROBERT P. MARTIN MANILA, Dec. 28 KIJ.D Usually Usual-ly reliable informants alleged without confirmation today that at leSst 12 German vessels were being armed in Japanese and Japanese-controlled Chinese harbors, har-bors, possibly for raiding activities activi-ties in the Pacific and claimed that several were already provisioning provis-ioning and refueling German raiders in Australian and Indian waters. The reports were not confirmed. Informants asserted, however, that United States naval authorities authori-ties here were cognizant of them as reports and were watching developments de-velopments closely. Informants suggested that German Ger-man supply ships might be meeting meet-ing raiders at agreed rendezvous in Japanese Mandated Islands. Miss or Mr. Utah Valley of 1941?" The baby first to make its advent ad-vent in the hospital after midnight Tuesday will .be hailed by Utah valley as its baby of 1941, and will be honored with a New Year's shower befitting the title. People of the hospital area have registered with Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the hospital board, their intention of presenting gifts to the newcomer, and a community shower for him is in the offing. Anyone else who wishes to contribute con-tribute a present to the honored infant may communicate with Mr. Jenkins. (ers. Earlier, Royal Air Force and navy planes had co-operated in attacking the harbors and bases where - the Germans are believed to have assembled troops for a possible invasion attempt. 38,114 Prisoners - F'rom Cairo came an official communique reporting the total prisoners, captured in the British thrust into Libya had risen to 33,114, almost all of them from Italian rather than native Libyan units. The Balkans offered a new version in explanation of repeated rumors of German troop movements move-ments in that area. The explication, explica-tion, coming from Hungarian sources, said that Germany had assured Bulgaria that no movement move-ment into or across that country was planned, and that the troops were merely designed to guard Germany's southern flank against possible British attack in the spring should Britain and Greece win smashing victories in Libya and Albania. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain called a meeting of his council of ministers for late today to discuss dis-cuss conversations which his emissary Admiral Francois Dar-lan Dar-lan had with high German per sonalities, one of whom may have been Adolf Hitler. . Great Britain had a respite from air attack after" a deter- mined four hour assault was made on London last night. Italian press threats of Japanese Japa-nese entry into the war directed attention to unconfirmed rumors from Manila that German ships in Japanese and Japanese-controlled harbors are being armed and provisioned pro-visioned for possible raiding activity ac-tivity against British shipping in the Pacific. A Pacific raider, presumably German but flying the Japanese colors, shelled the isolated island of Nauru in the south Pacific yesterday. The Manila report alleged that some German ships had already slipped quietly out of Japanese ports, possibly to rendezvous ren-dezvous with Nazi sea raiders already al-ready in the area. In Albania the Greeks claimed an assault was being made on Lin, a vital fortified position 12 miles north of Pogradec. On the coastal front a village five miles from ; the fortified pass which guards the approach to Valona Bay was captured. rjellos Dc-ni; 23 Oift Uith Ml WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (L'JR) Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles today categorically denied recent reports that a rift has developed de-veloped between himself and his immediate superior, Secretary of State CordeU Hull. He said there never has been an imrortant difference dif-ference of opinion between them. Welles' statement-was made at the daily press conference usually held by Hull, and was directed at reports of a difference over Spanish Span-ish relief proposals. The item appeared in the syndicated column, col-umn, "Washington Merry - Go-Round." Go-Round." I- - - AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "People get more civilized. civi-lized. I can remember when a woman had to nag at her man to keep him from set-tin' set-tin' on the front porch in a red undershirt." |