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Show f .,r"'"N. 4t' The Weather TTTAII Partly cloudy Sunday; flattered light lowers; little change In temperature. Maximum temp. Saturday ....fil SLnimum temp. Saturday ....S3 tfoxi Counti; Progress Edition VOL. 18, NO. 34 UTAH'S ONLT DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKH PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1941 COMPLETE CITED PRESS PPTPI? TTTVT? PPMTS TELEPORAPH NEWS SERVICES SrSXLKjCj 1 V j KjCjVi X kj DESK BY THE EDITOR There wasn't much to remind re-mind us of Saturday being Washington's birthday here, except for a flag or two, and the fact that the bank clerks and postoffice crew took a day off. Outside of that pretty pret-ty near everybody worked as usual. Although the day is a legal holiday in .nearly all the states, it is not observed uniformly by the business interests. in-terests. In some cities stores close and business is at a standstill generally, while in others, like Provo. stores remain re-main open. Outside of school programs on Friday, there was little if any observance here to honor the Father of His Country. Business interests complain that the number of holidays in the year are increasing all the time, leaving fewer and fewer days for business purposes. pur-poses. Patriotic societies, on the other hand, charge that in the rush for business we are forgetting for-getting to give proper. honor to the great men in the nation's na-tion's history. obo Soap operas via the radio are the great indoor sport. The housewife who has been saved from drudgery by the appliance dealers is now taking tak-ing a memory course to keep 17 running stories straight. Junior, who used to be shielded from the horrors of life, now gets his daily lessons les-sons in triangles and gun play out of the air. 0O0 American. Legion. men, the nation over, responded magnificently mag-nificently Saturday to the call for service. This time it was to register for home defense, de-fense, placing "themselves in readiness for whatever service serv-ice the nation might require of them in this critical hour. T MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. AIXEN Government Fears Rising Prices Ma yRun Away, Studies Drastic Controls Con-trols ; Roosevelt's Wife, Uncle Stir Him to Action Ac-tion on Muddled Defense De-fense Housing, WASHINGTON Only Insiders know it, but the Government is preparing drastic price controls If the present upward trend continues. con-tinues. They fear a runaway price situation sit-uation whicn would hit the pock-ctbooks pock-ctbooks of the great mass of consumers. con-sumers. And the last thing the Administration wants right now is a hot cost-of-living potato on its hands. So far there have been marked price advances only In a few commodities com-modities lumber, scrap Iron, and other basic raw materials. But recently there have been telltale tell-tale signs of a general upward movement, and some of those mysterious late-afternoon White House conferences "have been over this problem. Three plans of attack at-tack are under consideration: 1. Use of the priorities control now vested in the Office of Production Pro-duction Management, under the supervision of ex-U. S. Steel man Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., to deprive de-prive price -gougers of their supplies, sup-plies, thus forcing them either to go out of business or bring their prices into line. 2. Use of the "draft industry" law to compel price gouging concerns con-cerns to sell to the Government at a fixed figure; also to "freeze" prices in Industries where quotations quota-tions persist in getting out of line with what are consdered fair levels. 3. Imposition of a price ceiling on all commodities and on every step in the industrial process from raw materials to retailer. The last was the recommendation recommenda-tion of Bernard Baruch, based on hia experience as head of the 1917-18 1917-18 War Industries Board. In private pri-vate conferences with Roosevelt (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) SENATE VJ1LL RECEIVE cuvvr 'LAtJ tlOfJDAY. House Approval Of Bill Leaves Burden Up To Senate SALT LAKE GITY, Feb. 22 U.R An. admittedly hostile hos-tile Utah senate Monday re ceives Governor Herbert B. Maw's "master" reorganiza tion bill, and speculation to day centered on plans the chief executive may have to force passage of the measure through the upper chamber. House approval of the governor's govern-or's bill, with only minor changes, struck the capitol like a thunder bolt yesterday. Senators, who members of the lower chamber have accused of forming a "rich man s club," admitted "the heat is on, but had not determined what action to take. The senate indicated it favors reorganization, but believed the governor's bill would not stand up in a court test. As a result, forty bills dealing with reorgan ization were tossed in the senate hopper. By approving the bill yesterday, the house grabbed the whiphand and left the problem of reorganization reorgan-ization squarely up to the senate. The upper chamber, It was said, would be blamed if reorganization failed. And the house could share in the glory if the governor's bill passed. Two courses of action appeared open : 1. Leave the governor's bill In committee and bring the 40 supplemental sup-plemental bills out on the senate floor for debate. If this course is followed, however, the upper body would risk the wrath of the governor gov-ernor and be under constant pressure pres-sure from the house and the public. pub-lic. 2. Consider the governor's bill, amending it so that all fears as to constitutionality are removed. The legislature was in recess today... .Members of bath, houses traveled to St. George to Inspect Dixie Junior college. P.-T. A. CALLS 'LI ASS MEETING Parent-Teacher association offi cers and members from all schools in Provo are uniting in staging a public program Thursday night, March 6, in the high school auditorium audi-torium in commemoration of the organization's Founders' Day, a nation-wide event. The program will be free, according ac-cording to Mrs. Lucille B. Slau-genhoup, Slau-genhoup, Provo Founders' Day chairman and second vice president presi-dent of the state P.-T. A. organization. organi-zation. One of the features will be an original play and pageant directed direct-ed by Claude Snow. The Provo high A Capella chorus, directed by Ernest Paxman will sing, and the , combined orchestras of Far-rer Far-rer and Dixon junior high schools under direction of John G. Hil-gendorff Hil-gendorff will play two numbers. The combined orchestra has 65 members. Other numbers include selections selec-tions by the B. Y. U. glee club directed by Miss Mary McGregor, and varied numbers by the various elementary schools of Provo . Maeser, Joaquin, Franklin, Timp-anogos Timp-anogos and the B. Y. U. schooL Community singing will be led by Farrell Madsen. eatings Sol for Potato Growers Meetings for potato growers of Utah county for explanation of a program to divert up to 12,500,-000 12,500,-000 bushels of 1940 crop Irish potatoes po-tatoes into livestock feed in the eight western states, will be held Monday at 7:30 p. m. at Provo agriculture office and Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. at the American Fork city hall, David H. Jones of Spanish Span-ish Fork, chairman of the Utah count AAA committee announces. The program provides for payments pay-ments of 25 cents per hundred to eligible growers for. potatoes of U. S. number two grade or better which are diverted into li'estock feed.' The diversion program requires that potatoes diverted be fed to livestock and not wasted by dumping. dump-ing. If the grower cannot feed his diverted potatoes, he may sell them to someone who can. The potatoes will be dyed to keep them from being sold for human consumption. Growers are urged to come prepared pre-pared to the meeting to make application ap-plication for the amount of pota toes they wish to divert, Mr. Jones said. Southland Floods - f ' f , ' : ,4 , Rain that reached cloudburst intensity in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley raiseu seas of water and mud throughout the area. Above, passenger cars caught in a landslide "that swept acrcss Roosevelt Highway. Bottom, employes of Lockheed Aircraft Co. in Burbank. Calif., go home after flood water forced an over-i over-i night halt in warplane production. Koto Started to for Sugar WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 U.R) Sens. Alba B. Adams, D., Colo., and Joseph Ct O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., today introduced legislation which would grant American beet and cane sugar producers any portion por-tion of the Philippine sugar quota that cannot be filled by the islands, Adams, introducing the bill, said sugar shipments from the Philippines Philip-pines probably will be curtailed because of a shortage of shipping and high freight rates. He asserted assert-ed the United States should build up its domestic production to stave off any possible shortage. O'Mahoney said "we will press for speedy "action on ' the measure meas-ure and attempt to have hearings held as soon as possible." He added add-ed domestic producers are "badly in need of some form of relief." The Philipine quota is 800,000 tons. Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La., observed "we in Louisiana have been suffering for four years from acreage reductions." He said he would be "glad" to join Adams in pressing for "some form of relief." re-lief." Domestic beet sugar producers had their aggregate permissible acreage cut 16 per cent by a decision de-cision of the agriculture department depart-ment in January. Colorado, however, how-ever, received a cut of 23 per cent in its acreage. This was done on the basis of production records in recent years, and the department said no change could be made without some new legislation. SpBOPTIMIST MEETING Members of the project committee commit-tee of the Soroptimist club are requested re-quested to attend a luncheon meeting at Keeleys, Monday noon. Miss Cathryn Morphew, chair man, is calling the meeting. Also, the monthly meeting of the Soroptimist club will be held Friday evening, instead of Thursday, Thurs-day, on account of the National Guard benefit show being- held that night at the Paramount thea ter. 200 Veterans Register For Home Defense Aid Approximately 200 World war veterans registered voluntarily for home defense aid in Provo at Jackson Motor company under the auspices of the American Legion Le-gion during the 12 days of registration regist-ration ended yesterday, Washington's Washing-ton's Birthday, . which was termed "M" day throughout the nation, according to K. W. Bailey, commander com-mander of the Provo post. The home defense program, part of the nation-wide defense picture will afford safety in the absence of national guard and other de Disrupt Traffic, Delay Defense Activity A i -v.; :- v . Dr. -Harris' iriospiiaV:-' OrusaUe ' Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of the Utah Valley has-pital, has-pital, will head an educational and financial crusade for the hospital, according to an announcement last night by the executive committee of the board of directors. The intensive financial phase will open March DISABLED VETS 10 L1EET CHIEF " The Disabled American Veterans Veter-ans of the World war arc planning plan-ning a mass meeting of all veterans veter-ans in the State of Utah, to be held at Salt Lake City March 8th, the time and place of the meeting to be announced later. C. B. Greenwell, state department commander, urges all veterans to attend this meeting, regardless of their affiliations with other veterans vet-erans organizations. Vincent E. Schoeck, national commander of the Disabled American Am-erican Veterans of the World war, will arrive in Salt Lake with his wife and twq children on the aft? ernoon of March 8th, and has an interesting and very important message for the World war veterans. veter-ans. Girl Scouts Join In Observance Girl Scouts of Troop No. 2, of Provo, will celebrate International Girl Scout day, today, at Meno Trope hall from 3 to 5 o'clock, announces Mrs. O. A. Spear, leader. lead-er. This day is observed by Girl Scouts all over the world, honoring honor-ing Lord and Lady Baden-Powejl, founders of the Girl and Boy Scout organizations, whose birthday anniversaries an-niversaries both occur Feb. 22. The parents of Troop 2 members mem-bers are invited to attend. A fine program will be presented by the girls. . fense measures for individuals at home in case of sabotage, fifth columns, etc., Mr. Bailey said. Registration of veterans in Provo was part of national mobilization, mobi-lization, designed to have all World war officers and men, soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guard and enlisted nurses voluntarily volun-tarily signed in a move to prepare if a major national emergency should arrive. Officials expected a large share of 3,000,000 veterans to register (Continued on Page Three) t to Head 17, it was announced. Sidney W. Russell, associate general chairman, will direct the activities of the crusade, while Dr. Harris is in the east. John O. Beesley'will serve as chairman of the finance committee of the crusade. Work of lining up the personnel person-nel of the crusade organization is now well under way, Mr. Russell said last night. Headquarters have been opened in Suite 27 of the Roberts hotel, and it is hoped to enroll more than 200 leading men and women of Provo in the effort. Funds Are Needed- "The Utah Valley hospital is facing a desperate financial situation, situa-tion, one that we ourselves must remedy or else have the doors of the institution closed," Mr. Russell Rus-sell said last night. "When this institution, built at a total cost of $345,000, wasopened, certain governmental financial pledges to help meet the operating deficit were made, but legal complications complica-tions arose which made it impos-sible impos-sible to carry out these pledges. "The hospital lajst year operated at 50 per cent capacity, which is one reason for the operating deficit. defi-cit. We feel that if we could bring occupancy up to 75 per cent, the overhead would be increased but very little, while the deficit would be reduced considerably."- "It was pointed out by hospital authorities that last year half of the patients - received charity service all or in part. There were 380 babies born- at the hospital last year and no charge is majde (Continued on Page Three) TJiis Day... BORN Girl, named Loi3 Jean, to Hubert Hu-bert Millard and Grace Esther Cooper Jones. Girl, to George and Mary Hawker Hawk-er Smeath, Saturday. . Boy, to Roy and Helen Penrod Strong, Friday, Payson hospital. EARLY PRESS TIME Due to the early press . lime required by this Utah County Industrial-Edition Industrial-Edition of the Herald, accounts of . the Big Seven basketball games are missing from this edition. Box scores, summaries and sidelights side-lights will be carried in the Mondav issue. NEVADA SOLON SEES I'JAR IF DILL PA Draftees Will "Be Gone For Good and All" Says Senator WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 U.P.) Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev., declared in the senate today if the British aid bill is enacted, he feared every man who goes into the army under selective service "will "be gone for good and all." The Nevada senator, making an unscheduled speech against the measure, said "if this bill Is enacted en-acted into law, it means war -war under the ignominious name of never having been declared by congress. "If this bill is enacted into latv, everv boy in the District of Co-lumia Co-lumia who has been called into active service will never return they will be murdered or maimed maim-ed and return to spend a crippled old age. Don't Be Fooled "If this bill is enacted into law, every boy who goes from every state into active service -next month will be gone for good and all." Selective service trainees, McCarran Mc-Carran said, may think they "will be gone for a year. That is what they have been promised. But, people of America, don't be fooled bv specious promises that the measure nly means aid to England." Eng-land." WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 UP Sen. Robert A. Taft. R., O., arguing argu-ing against the administration's British aid bill, contended today that "unless we are prepared to declare war ourselves, we should not pas3 this bill." In a speech to the senate, Taft said that the "time ha3 come when the nation should face the issue of war and openly debate it." Sen. Arthur Capper, R., Kans., opened the sixth day of general debate on the measure by assailing assail-ing it ,as a "fantlstic,- bombastic nightmare" to give President Roosevelt "complete war making powers and control of our domestic domes-tic economy." Taft said "let us not drift into war by mistake, and find later that a majority of the people were fooled into a course of action, the end of which they did not understand. under-stand. That is not the democratic way: nor is it the way to win a war, Taking Issue with President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie, who beat him for the Republican presidential nomination last year and who now supports the administration admin-istration bill, Taft pleaded for enactment en-actment of his substitute bill which would make out-right dollar dol-lar credits of $1,500,000,000 available avail-able to Britain, $500,000,000 to Canada, and $50,000,000 to Greece. He said that the powers contained con-tained in the administration measure would put Mr. Roosevelt "in a position -where he can run the war. . . . The British could hardly plan an expedition in Africa Afri-ca or in the Balkans without obtaining ob-taining the permission of the president and the materials necessary neces-sary for such an expedition." Doctors Battle To Save Child SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22 (U.P) Physicians battled today to save the. life of 19-months-old Patricia Ann Gardner, in critical condition at a Salt Lake Ctly hospital with the cogwheel from a watch lodged deep in her throat. The child's father, Harold Gardner, Gard-ner, raced death in a 150-mile ride from Rotosevelt, Utah, to bring the child to the hospital. But attendance held little hope the infant "would recover. The child swallowed the cogwheel cog-wheel last night. It was part of a watch her three-year-old brother broth-er had teen taking apart. Hospital attendants said the wheel had not been definitely located, lo-cated, but it was believed deep in the throat pasage where it had injured the passage to the right lung, Eii-Otahn' Feared Lost in Peru After Forced Landing in Dacor LIMA, Peru, Feb. 22 U.R John Lear, former Salt Lalce City newspaperman, and two others were feared lost today in the "vast Sechura desert, 500 miles north of Lima, following the forced landing land-ing of an airliner several days ago. Five of 15 passengers obaard the plane were reported to have been rescued" yesterday by Juan Pardo De Miguel, well known Peruvian pilot. Lear, an Associated Press staff writer, Hugh Welles, an American kitisli 'Will Mine 'i e a i k e r Jio Effect of Mining is to Cut Off Italy From All Sea Communication With Its North African Colonies, Says Admiralty By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Great Britain moved swiftly today to strengthen her position in the Mediterranean and the war-jittery Balkans. The British admiralty announced laying of great mine fields designed to box in Italy and cut possible routes by which the Germans might descend upon Tunisia and the Italians Ital-ians escape from Tripoli. Key to the new mine fields were the narrow waters between be-tween Sicily and North Africa. The British said they had cut the central Mediterranean at its narrowest point. Only British ves sels equipped with charts or the new fields can safely traverse them. To Checkmate Axis- The action was believed to be designed de-signed to block any moves by the Axis powers to use sea lanes to bolster Italy's fading position in Libya. Previous speculation has centered on possibility Italy might attempt to evacuate her garrisons at Tripoli by sea or that the Germans Ger-mans might move in on French Tunisia. Royal Air Force planes today beat off repeated attempts by the Nazi luftwaffe to penetrate Britain's Brit-ain's coastal defenses. The air action on the British coast was on a scale comparable to the big battles of last fall and the London press believed It marked the opening phase of a British-German struggle for control con-trol of "the air frontier." Tense On Eastern Front On the Far Eastern front there were no signs of easing tension. Vichy said the French government had rejected Japanese "compromise" "compro-mise" proposals for settling the conflict between Indo-China and Thailand. Vichy feared the rejection would cause additional tension because of Jt&e large Japanese naval concentrations con-centrations In Indo-Chinese waters and prospect of new border fighting. fight-ing. The German embassador to, Japan, Ja-pan, Eugen Ott, was reported to have made verbal representations to the Japanese foreign office against . the Japanese offer to mediate the war between Britain and Germany. . . The British move to bolster her position in the Balkans and Turkey Tur-key centered on the activity of Foreign secretary Antnony tLaen &n(j Gen. Sir John Dill, chief of the imperial general staff, now in Cairo. Seek Balkan Alliance-Istanbul Alliance-Istanbul believed they would go to -Ankara for important consultations consul-tations with the Turkish government, govern-ment, and suggested Edan might go on to Athens and Belgrade, (Continued on Page Three). FIVE DIE IN GRANTS PASS, Ore., Feb. 22 Five persons including a mother and her three children were burned to death today when fire destroyed their ranch home. The tragedy occurred at the joint home of Frank and E. M. Thompson near Cave Junction, Oregon. . The dead: Mrs. Frank Thompson, 22. Her daughters, Marion, 4, and Irene, 4 months, and her son, Francis, one and a half years old. Edna Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Thompson, who lived with the Frank Thompsons. Thomp-sons. The victims were trapped while sleeping upstairs. EXCIIANGE CLUB The Provo Exchange club will hold a special business meeting Monday at 8 p. m. at Hotel Roberts. Rob-erts. Business of current interest will be discussed and a new member mem-ber introduced. All members are urged to attend. flier, and a thirtl passenger left the forced down plane and went in search of a desert trail in hope of finding help. No word has been heard from them. The airliner, a Condor ship, was forced down by a storm. Since then a Fawcett airline commercial commer-cial plane has dropped food and water to the stranded passengers. Pardo hoped to take off today in an attempt to rescue passengers still stranded and to search for Lear and his companions. OP.EGOi FIRE i a m ea m WILD RULlOPiS CIRCULATING III BULGARIA By IFUGO SPECK SOFIA. Bulgaria, Feb. -22 (IIP) Wild rumors circulated in this tense Balkan capital tonight, indicating in-dicating the degree of nervousness over possible German moves and counter-moves. There was nothing resembling official or even unofficial confirmation confir-mation for any of the reports which flew from cafe to cafe and were discussed heatedly by Sofia citizens. Among these , rumors were these: That Russia had informed Germany Ger-many she would be "unable to adhere" to the Russo-German economic eco-nomic agreement of last month if the Germans moved into Bulgaria. That Turkey would declare war on Germany if the Nazis moved into Bulgaria. That Turkey would remain cn the defensive if the Nazlc came into Bulgaria, but would allow the British fleet to, pass through the Dardanelles, to cut off oil shipments ship-ments from Russia to the Danube river ports. That large scale land, sea and air operations will start shortly in and around the Balkans unless the Greeks negotiate peace with Italy. " That many - German pontoon bridges have been thrown across the Danube, despite official statements state-ments to the contrary. In the midst of this excitement the pemi-official press agency tola the public: "Be calm. There is nothing to fear." It was reported Field Marshal Siegmund List, veteran of the German campaign in Poland, had arrived in Bulgaria from Rumania. Armed loltlop Ms ELunohsian Provo's biggest hold-up in a long time occurred at 2:30 a. m. Saturday when a gunman robbed Fred Paoletti, manager of the Snappy Service Lunch at 176 North University avenue, of about $75 as he was about to close his establishment for the night. Paoletti. told Provo police he steped outside the rear door to empty some garbage when the gunman appeared, brandished what appeared to be a .32 caliber automatic, and ordered him to hand over the money he had just taken from . the . cash register. Paoletti obeyed. The gunman wore a white handkerchief hand-kerchief over his face from the eyes down. He appeared about 25 or 30 years old, Paoletti said. Officers theorized that , the (Continued on Page Three) AUNT HET r . ACN T IIET "Emily says her victuals disagree " with her, but I doubt it. Hard-headed e, she is, she probably refuses to agree with her victuals. l S l r .SIM |