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Show 1 k The Weather ITT All Fair with little change la temperature Sunday. . J Maximum Temp. Saturday . . 60 Minim urn Temp. Saturday . . S3 Zrn7f Utah County By Patronizing Ilomo Stores and Business Houses V .J.J vl- HUli LJ U k -Oil i! VOL. 18, NO. 36 D E SIC CHA BY THE EDITOa The community hat may-well may-well be swept off in a graceful grace-ful salute during the week from March 12-18 to the Girl Scouts of America, who have a live, growing troop in Provo. Pro-vo. The week marks the 29th birthday of the movement, and will be appropriately observed ob-served by the organization here under the direction of its very capable leadership. Today 633,000 young American Amer-ican girls are organized in the Girl Scouts. Their awareness aware-ness to their country's needs is well shown by their acting as hostesses last summer to delegations from 13 western hemisphere countries. The building of Pan-American friendships is one of the tasks the Girl Scouts have set themselves, and they have made a good start. The camp project will be repeated this summer. - The heroic service England's Eng-land's women have given during dur-ing that country's hour of trial is visible evidence of how vital a part women may play in national service. The Girl Scouts appear keenly aware of their responsibilities, and ready to serve in whatever capacity seems necessary. . . Hapny birthday, and . many of them! oOo With the second hospital drive in two years. Provo is getting to be one of the most keenly, "hospital - minded" communities in the country. The problem facing Provo and adjacent territory of keeping top-rated hospital open by underwriting the deficit incurred, in-curred, does not .have . to be met by cities like S-ilt Lake City, Ogden, Idaho Falls and other cities, because their hospitals are operated by sponsoring churches, usually L. D. S. or Catholics, who guarantee funds to keep the institutions running. While the church assists in many ways in the hospital program here, it does not .assume the same responsibility of putting put-ting up the necessary finances finan-ces for the deficit, as in Ogden Og-den and Salt Lake City. oOo i Wise Sayings: No man bigger than you are is ever a liar. He's just mistaken. . . . Some marry because they hate to be alone. Later, some of the same ones get a divorce for the same reason. . . . The fellow who refuses to be shown is pretty apt to be shown eventually up. ... A nightmare is just a dream in curl-papers. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Big words, such' as "Nomentous,'' "historic," "crucial," have been common in describing the Senate debate on the lend-lease bill. Defending themselves against the charge of filibuster, the opposition has maintained that the issues are so grave that national interest demands de-mands weeks of discussion. Daily throughout long weeks the front pages have reverberated with the Senate's embattled thun-derings. thun-derings. The headlines and crackling crack-ling statements have given the impression im-pression of fierce struggle. But the reality has been far different. There has been no blood shed. The Senate has never presented a more peaceful, more indolent appearance. ap-pearance. If a great battle is raging, rag-ing, there are few signs of it on the floor of the "greatest deliberative delib-erative body in the world." Most of the time it looks more like the lounge of a ritzy club than a council chamber where history is being made. Here is a blow-by-blow account of a typical typi-cal day of this "epochal" debate: I QUORUM, QUORUM . Eleven A. M., the convening bell rings. A quorum call is de-(Continued de-(Continued on Page Two) T I UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE KEARIIIS Oi! m 7finir i LUI.1I.L3 mm set Public Hearing Slated Wednesday In City ' Commission Rooms All persons interested in proposed changes in the Pro vo city zoning ordinance should attend a public hearing hear-ing Wednesday at 10 a. m. in the city commission rooms, advises Mrs. Mary F. Smith, city auditor and secretary of the zoning commission. The public is also invited to inspect in-spect maps on file in the offices of the mayor and city recorder prior to the meeting, Mrs. Smith states. The changes are to reclassify zones from residential districts to commercial areas, as requested by the property owners, states Mrs. Smith. Locations of the changes were listed as follows: Second North ana University avenue and north to .include the Claudin funeral home; east to boundary line o? Watkins service station. University avenue between Fourth and Fifth North on both sides of the block. South on Seventh East on west side of street for one-half block, from Third South adjoining the commercial area and south to the city cemetery. Intersection of Third South and Fifth West to include one-half block in all directions and for one-half one-half block deep. Hart's Market and Standard Oil Service station are located at this intersection. Intersection of Eleventh West and Sixth South, one black in all directions and one-half block deep. Northwest part of city between Seventh and Ninth West, and between be-tween Fourth and Seventh North, intersection to extend one-half block in each direction. " Twelfth North highway between Third and Fifth West to extend one-half block south. Northeast section, intersection between Seventh and Eighth East on Eighth North one fcloclceactf way. Intersection at Leibhardt addition addi-tion on Ninth East and north of Harison addition, one block each direction. MAYOR REPLIES TO OPPOSITION "I think no proposed legislation legisla-tion has ever escaped the claim of unconstitutionality." Thus stated Mayor Mark Anderson An-derson Saturday, countering to claims by the Associated Canal Companies of Salt Lake City that the proposed law for setting up a Utah lake authority is unconstitutional. unconsti-tutional. "If the Utah lake authority is unconstitutional so are several other laws under which state commissions com-missions now operate," said Mayor Anderson. The proposed law grants the lake authority no more judicial power than the present industrial commission or public service commission now exercise, he said. "All decisions of the lake authority au-thority would be subject to court review but many problems could be settled without going to court and the authority would have ad ministrative authority that no I other state agency now has." Chandler Speaker For Jackson Day SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 (UP) Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky., will be the principal speaker at j the Utah Jackson day dinner here March 29, Democratic party officers offi-cers announced today. Chairman 1 Parnell Black predicted 2500 persons per-sons would attend the dinner and contribute at least $25 each to the party's war chest. ! . Salt Lake Child, Narrow Escape SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 UJ!i Billy Nofsinger, two, has a severe pain in his chest today but he doesn't realize how close he came to drowning. The child wandered away from home. His father, William Nofsinger, Nof-singer, noticed his absence a few hours later and tarted searching. One of Billy's playmates said she'd seen Billy laying down in a neighbor's fishpond. Nofsinger found his son in the PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, Legislature Votes New State Wei fa Board Organization House Passes First Two of Senate's Supplemental Supple-mental Reorganization Bills Relating To Welfare, Industrial Promotion By DAVE DRWDEN SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 U.R) The first of the senate's sen-ate's supplemental reorganization bills a bill creating a new state department of public welfare passed the Utah house of representatives today after the lower chamber beat down a Republican attempt to have political party leaders indorse appointments to a proposed, non-pay advisory board. The bill was sent back to the senate after the house, still resentful of the senate's position on reorganization, had pro- Saoata fipproiuj Dill io Sal Op SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 0J.P) The . Utah Senate today passed and sent to the house a bill creating a state board to replace re-place the Utah National guard, recently re-cently called into federal service, after objections had b?en raised that the new military group might be used as a "strike breaking body." The bill, which provides for a volunteer guard subject to the call of the governor, was passed unanimously unani-mously under suspension of rules. Sen. Charles Spence. D., Salt Lake, although voting for the biU, objected to it on the grounds that "under this bill, strikebreakers can hide behind the skirts of national na-tional defense in order to crack at labor." He said he had been informed the State Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations opposed the bill. Proponents were Sens. Charles Ellett, D., Utah,( and F. D. Wil liams, R., Millard. 5'r."U!ir? protection in this time of emer Mency, when, the whole world . is shaking." He said as he understood under-stood the bill it would "strike at the fifth column, which is attempting at-tempting to undermine the nation." na-tion." Ellett denied the guard could tre used against labor, and Williams Wil-liams joined him in the contention. conten-tion. After p-assing the guard bill, the senate began consideration of three other measures relating to , me national defense problem in Utah. Two of the bills were pushed push-ed through the senate and sent to the house before the noon recess. One set up a strict licensing system for handling explosives, and the other created a seven-man state defense advisory council. The latter bill carried a $10,000 appropriation to promote national .defense activities in the state. Q t Si For arch 31 SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 UJ?) Gov. Herbert B. Maw today proclaimed March 31 as Arbor day and asked Utah gardeners to celebrate this year's tree-planting festival with particular vigor to spruce up the state in preparation for the 1947 centennial celebration. celebra-tion. Roll of Honor in Hospital Crusade The following firms with five or more employes, have . met their unit' goal, representing repre-senting pledges of firm, executives and employes, and have been placed on the Hospital Crusade Roll of Honor: Mountain Fuel Supply Co. Utah Valley Electric Co. Berg Mortuary W. R. Butler, Inc. Castle Peak Gllsonite Co. Claudin Funeral Home Firmagts Inc. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. Virginia Ham House 2, Suffers From Drowning pond face down and unconscious. He pulled him out; raced home and placed the child on the kitchen kitch-en table. The father remembered his own training as a boy scout and started artificial respiration while his wife called the fire department de-partment rescue squad. When the firemen arrived, Billy was already breathing normally. The only thing he couldn't figure out was why his father had pushed push-ed on his chest until it was sore. Day posed a number of amendments. Vote on the welfare bill was 55 to 30. The principal amendment, proposed pro-posed by House Majority Leader S. W. Elwood, D., Weber, cut from seven to six the number of members mem-bers on the non-paid advisory board. Four of the members must belong to the same political party. Concession To Republicans Proponents of the amendment explained that was a concession to Republicans who felt that the senate's sen-ate's proposal .would give the Democratic party too great a voice in activities of the welfare board. A Republican attempt to have precinct, state and county committees com-mittees indorse members of the non-paid board was defeated, however. how-ever. The house voted almost along party lines, one of the few times in the 24th session, to defeat the amendment. Later, the house passed the senate sen-ate bill providing for a new department de-partment of publicity and industrial indus-trial welfare . part of Governor Maw's new, reorganized state government. gov-ernment. Vote on the bill second of the senate's supplemental reorganization reorganiza-tion measures to go through the house was 54 to 3. The measure passed with only one minor amendment. amend-ment. The change will permit .. day -'.heir memDers or an advisory board to wmie advising, rather than serv ingfree, as provided by the senate. me bouse then turned to consideration con-sideration of a bill that would liberalize the Utah unemployment compensation law by permitting payments to be increased to 520 and extending the period for receiving re-ceiving such pay to 20 weeks. Meantime, the senate receded from its earlier stand on old-age pensions and accepted a house amendment to the bill. The senate struck a section from the bill which would have made it mandatory that the state give hospital care to persons over 65 in addition to the $30 monthly pension. Other than that, however, the bill was left intact. It gives Utah one of the most liberal pension programs in the nation by permitting permit-ting pensions to accept up to $10 (Continued on Page. Three) BUMS FATAL TO CEDAR FORT BOY Sherwin Peterson, 8, and Paul Peterson, 4, of Cedar Fort decided de-cided they should let their father sleep late and that they should get up and build the morning fire in the kitchen of their home. The boys got up, piled dry sagebrush sage-brush in the stove, poured gasoline gaso-line on the brush and lit a match. The gasoline exploded. The father got up hurriedly and found the clothes of both his sons in flames. The father, James Peterson, rolled Paul in the dirt first, then Sherwin. While neighbors extinguished extin-guished the fire in the kitchen, the boys were taken to the Lehi hospital. Sherwin then was transferred to a Salt Lake City hospital but died late yesterday. His brother, Paul, was reported recovering at Lehi. Tliis Day . . BORN Boy, to George A. and Amy Finlayson Davis, Saturday. Girl, to Roy J. and TheTma Driggs Brown, Friday. Boy, named Edward Ashton Carpenter, to J. G. and Hester Ann Beebe Carpenter, in Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif. The new arrival is the first grandchild of Mrs. L. J. Beebe and Calvin E. Beebe. LICENSED TO MARRY Heber Lavar Jones, 22, Bell Gardens, Gar-dens, Calif., and Betty Lee Dear-ing, Dear-ing, 16, Bell Gardens, Calif. Arthur Nielsen McKell, 24, Spanish Fork, and Helen Creer, 22, Spanish Fork. John William Silberman, 23. Springville, and Delia LaVon Ol-sen, Ol-sen, 22, Spanish Fork. SUNDAY, MARCH Perfect Pooch Placates Private's Pain A lady with a heart is Deanna Durbin, film star, who gave a new dog to Private Everett Scott, owner of the late lamented "Laddie," Scott's aire-dale aire-dale which became sick when separated from his master as the latter Joined the Army. Laddie was flown across the country to Scott's side, but was too weak to live so here's Deanna presenting Scott with, a new . pet, Mickey, an airedale, in Los Angelas. Germans Claim Sinking Of 18 British Ships BERLIN, March 8 (U.P.) German sources claimed tonight to-night that 18 British ships, including1 two destroyers, have been sunk by air and sea attacks which included one of the most devastating torpedo boat assaults ever reported by GREECE OPPOSED TO ARMISTICE ATHENS. March 8 (CP) An, official government spokesman said tonight that "any idea of an armistice with Italy will find Greece disdainfully hostile." The spokesman said that Greece never has b?en interested In peace talks with Italy and is determined de-termined to "fight to the end." Steol Uor'icrs Olieli 7-Day Vies!; PHILADELPHIA, March 8 (U.P) Employes of the Midvale Steel company today voted for a seven day work-week "in the interest of the national defense emergency." More than 4,000 workers, represented rep-resented by the Midvale Steel Co. employees. Federal Labor union (AFL), participated in the vote, Edward Kunz, union secretary announced. an-nounced. The company is working on a $32,000,000 order for antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns and other defense orders for the U. S. army and navy. Child Health Confab Slated A child health conference directed dir-ected by the Utah' State Board of Health, division of maternal and child health, will be held Monday Mon-day at 9:30 in the Community church. Dr. James Westwood will conduct con-duct the conference, assisted by public health nurses and Jaycee wives. Nineteen appointments have been made, including nine for immunization. SEEKS END OF ITALO-GREEK WAR BELGRADE. March 8 OLD The German minister to Athens, Prinz Du Erbach, Schonberg, was said tonight to have delivered a note to Premier Alexander Korizis urging an end to the Italo-Greek war. TWO WOMEN INJURED Two Provo women suffered injuries in-juries in a auto-truck accident at First South and First East streets Friday at 4:30 p. m. They were Mrs. C. W. McQuarrie and Mrs. Elmer Skinner, both of whom were thrown out of a car driven by Mr. McQuarrie, 35, when it struck a truck driven by Roy Deering, 24, of Provo, according to police reports. FAMOUS COMPOSER DIES MADRID, March 8 (U.P.) Jose Serrano, famous composer, died today. He had long been ill. 9, 1941 K -Nazi sources. Total tonnage destroyed in the attacks was reported as 81,900. A flotilla of light motor torpedo boats was said to account for 47,-TRU 47,-TRU tons of thlsrLate reports by the official DNB news agency said that the torpedo boats sank 12 ships, including two destroyers, off the British southeast coast. The last report by DNB was the third upward revision of the toll wrought by the torpedo boat attack since it was first announced. an-nounced. Two of the 10 merchant ships were said to be tankers, one of 8,000 tons and the other of 5,000 tons. . Uorlicrs Appeal To Qoossuelt in Steel Plant Qoiv BY UNITED PRESS The Steel Workers' Organizing committee threatened "today to disrupt production on $1,500,000,-000 $1,500,000,-000 worth of national defense orders for a second time unless President Roosevelt takes immediate im-mediate action to compel the Bethlehem Steel Co. to comply with terms of a settlement reached reach-ed just one week ago. SWOC representatives sent a telegram to the president with copies to members of the office of production management charging charg-ing the Lackawanna, N. Y., Bethlehem Beth-lehem management refused to receive re-ceive a union committee appointed appoint-ed to negotiate pending grievances griev-ances in accordance with the OPM settlement. The 13,000 workers at the plant shut down operations for 38-hours last week to enforce demands that the firm negotiate differences. Lome Nelles, SWOC director, said C. L. Baker, plant personnel manager, "refused to admit the committee because he objected to certain of its members." The meeting had been scheduled as the second in a series between management man-agement and union representatives. representa-tives. Some grievances were presented pre-sented at the first meeting Tues day. -5- County s psnos Clontlis, Encoding Bond Paymen Utah county expenditures f or the first two months of 1941 total $116,304.34. or $34,014.60 more than the $82,289.74 for the same period of 1940, according to a report re-port released Saturday by Milton H. Harrison, deputy county auditor. audi-tor. However, since $52,000 of thia amount was paid for retirement of bonds, which removed the last of the county's indebtedness, the expenses were actually $17,985.40 less than last year. For the first two months of 1941 the general fund expenses were $28,111.13. as compared with $27,501.72 for last year. The amount expended for high COMPLETE TELEGRAPH UNITED NEWS 8e5 W su? Aid. V ote (SO n iL tta'i n j coin -ijian senators yore in ravor oi war Aid Measure Which Goes Back to House For Concurrence in 11 Amendments WASHINGTON, March 8 U.R) The Senate late today passed, 60 to 31, the administrations bill to make the United States the "arsenal and larder of democracy'! by providing nations resisting, axis aggression warplanes, warships, and other implements of war and food. Voting for the bill were 49 democrats, 10 republicans and one independent. Ag-ainst it were 13 democrats, 17 republicans re-publicans and one progressive. Both Utah's senators Elbert ; : ; D. Thomas and Abe Murdock, Democrats voted in favor of the measure. Murray, Montana, and Bunker, Nevada, voted for the bill, with Wheeler, Mont., McCarran, Nev., against. The till now goes to the house of representatives which passed it a month ago today, for expected ex-pected speedy concurrence in' 11 senate amendments. Speaker Sam Ray burn plans to obtain house approval of these alterations Monday. Mon-day. . Early in the afternoon Sen. Burton Bur-ton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., conceding, con-ceding, today that the administration administra-tion had the votes to pass the British aid measure, said he was "perfectly willing to have the senate vot this afternoon," as Barkley planned. He said he planned to go through with his program of stumping the country in a "crusade "cru-sade against war." . ' "The fight against war has just begun," Wheeler said. "This bill gives the president the power to wage an undeclared war anywhere in the world, and I will fight against that as hard as I can." Senator Wneelr. -Vinrp-prf as the senate neared a final vote that 'vsew' Dealers who get their information from the feed trough says we will be at war by April 1." Wheeler, who led the long and unsuccessful fight to amend the bill to the satisfaction of .its opponents, op-ponents, appealed , to his colleagues col-leagues not to "kid" themselves. "This is not a bill to keep war away; it is a bill to permit the president to carry on undeclared war," he said. ' While Wheeler spoke, senate at tendants ejected from the gallery an elderly woman who unrolled a large black and white banner proclaiming pro-claiming "Hr. R. 1776 means war vote no." The administration steamroller in the senate crushed an attempt to prohibit transfer of new American Amer-ican warships and naval planes. Defeating, 56 to 33, an amendment amend-ment which would have barred such transfers. It was sponsored by Chairman David I. Walsh, D., Mass., of the naval affairs committee, com-mittee, and was one of the last major opposition challenges to the administration. Prior to the vote, Sen. Millard E. Tydings, D., Md., urged senators sena-tors to be "honest" in the debate and admit that , Britain wants American men as well as material ma-terial aid. Tydings, a, supporter of the bill, backed the vValsh amendment on the ground this country should not weaken its own first lines of defense. Administration spokesmen had urged rejection of the Walsh proposal pro-posal on grounds it would "scuttle" "scut-tle" the measure and deny Britain possible needed aid, such as destroyers. de-stroyers. ' Both Walsh and Tydings pointed point-ed out that ships and large planes take considerable time to replace, unlike other types of arms and munitions, and that their transfer trans-fer to Britain might deplete the U. S. fleet Beriously. Tydings told the senate It was time to "let a little truth get into the debate." "I am sick and tired of hearing (Continued from Page Four) 5116,204 in Two way upkeep, $6,391.95, la considerably consider-ably less than that of, a year ago, $14,050.30. , A comparison of the expenditures expendi-tures in the various other funds for the first two months of 1941 with the corresponding period last year is as follows, with the 1941 figures listed first: Exhibition and advertising, $342.26. $1,252; poor and indigent, $2,415.32, $2,727.56; public welfare, $21,475.89, $18,-870.25; $18,-870.25; infirmary $4,275.79. $7,-460.37; $7,-460.37; interest paid out, $1,292, 1,240. So far thi3 year none of the memorial fund budget has been used. Last year at this time 59,-187.54 59,-187.54 had been spent. PRICE FIVE CENTS w ! ir j -w- f ti r NAZI. OFFENSIVE AGAINST GREECE MAY BE DELAYED By HARRISON SALISBURY' United Press Correspondent Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan departed de-parted today for important consultations in Berlin, Rome and Moscow, which may touch off the Axis all-out spring offensive of-fensive against Great Britain. Matsuoka undertook his journey as Germany rushed to consolidate in the Balkans, preliminary prelim-inary to what some observers thought might be a bold campaign to attempt to break Britain's grip on the Mediterranean. Opinion in . some British and Balkan quarters was that a Nazi offensve against Greece from the j new positions In Bulgaria may not i oe as imminent as has been re- ported. Nazis Need Time Those quarters said Germany would need time to place her forces in position for the offensive, offen-sive, meantime increasing diplomatic diplo-matic pressure on Greece and sweeping Jugoslavia into the Axis. Non-BritLsh sources in London feared Greece might bow t this pressure and Britain's prestige would suffer a blow that might enable Germany to strike in three points the western, central and eastern Mediterranean. However, all Athens reports in-.sisted in-.sisted Greece was ready to fight to the death no matter what the odds. Turkey seemed to be on the sidelines, unless directly attacked, at-tacked, but was preserving freedom free-dom of action. No Help From Kus!a One Turkish source said no help was expected from Russia other than possible morale support. That source thought Russia would protest a German move on the Dardanelles and keep on protesting protest-ing stronger than ever if the Germans Ger-mans drove all the way to India but still do nothing to stop them. A novel thesis was offered by Premier Benito Mussolini's spokesman, spokes-man, Virginio Gayda. He said that the British Imperial forces in Libya had suffered "enormous losses" and that British and Greek troops were being rushed from Greece to bolster the fading British Brit-ish lines. He added that "whether these reports are true, they nevertheless never-theless prove that the British consider con-sider the Greek war lost." Opposition in Jugoslavia to the coming rapprochment with the Axis was shown by the strong position taken by all opposition political factions to the government's govern-ment's course. Police raids were reported on some political head- (Continued on Page Four) AUNT HET By COBERT QUTLLTri They laugh at women for usin makeup In public, but I never naw a man Man din' at a kkL fountain that did not fix his tie to suit him." wTfr |