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Show r The Weather UTAJI: Partly cloudy Sunday, satte red showers over mountains Sunday. Maximum temp. Saturday 53 Minimum temp Saturday 34 By rf roclzir.j Homo Stores and Hi Hi VOL. 18, NO. 40 ITAIPS OSLT DAILY SOUTH OF 8 ALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1941 COMPLETE TELEURAPH CNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICB PRICE FIVE CENTS 7v DESK CHAT CT TH3 EDITCZJ Paducah, Ky. has an unusual un-usual tax in the form of an annual license of $5 on nonresidents non-residents who regularly drive their autos on the city's streets. The tax has been upheld up-held by the state court of appeals ap-peals as beinpr imposed under the city's police power over the privilege of using- the streets, and is not a tax on the autos of the non-resident. Many cities today have an increasing problem. People move to the suburbs in a growing stream, decreasing the tax potential of the city. Yet those same people, though living in another taxing tax-ing unit, regularly use the city streets to drive to and from their jobs, and derive other benefits from city services serv-ices which they no longer help to sunoort. The Paducah tax is evidently an effort to make them carry their share of the cost of services fvm which they regularly benefit. The trend to the suburbs is goiner to make manv cities consider measures like this one. oOo Sense and Nonsense Jugoslavia lived right smack up to its name as being be-ing one of the balkin' nations. ... It would be much easier to be rich if it didn't take so doggone much money Americans pay annually 76 million dollars in tolls to cross rivers. Let's all learn to swim. ... If you are a pedestrian on the highway the right side on which to walk is the left side. . . The average man never reaches his goal until he reaches his gold. . . . No publicity device is so overworked as procla mations, the mayor signs an average of one a week. MERRY GO-ROUND Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN ILitler Enraged As Jugoslavs Scuttled His Biggest Coup of the War; Readies Giant Attack As Balkans Look Anxiously For U. S. Supplies; Sup-plies; British Need Them Too, Will Give Only Captured Cap-tured Italian Munitions; Allies Superior in Morale, Manpower; Germany lias Better Machines". WASHINGTON In piecemeal diplomatic dispatches, the story of Hitler's reaction to the Yugoslav Yugo-slav slap in the face has been coming back to Washington. Put together, here is the story: After Hitler signed the pact with the now discredited Yugoslav Yugo-slav government of Prince Paul, he had planned the biggest coup of the war. It was scheduled for; Saturday, March 29. On that day his troops were to launch their attack from Bulgaria Bulgar-ia toward Salonika. Simultaneously, Simultan-eously, other Nazi troops were to go through Yugoslavia. Mussolini Mus-solini was scheduled to fly to Albania Al-bania to lead a charge against the Greeks, while the Italian navy was to sweep the Mediterranean. Shortly after this, the air blitz against England was to begin. However, when the Yugoslavs chucked their Axis pact out of the window. Hitler was forced to rearrange his tactics for attacking attack-ing Salonika. And the Italian fleet was virtually destroyed. As a result Hitler was so beside be-side himself with rage that he would not speak to Foreign Minister Min-ister von Ribentrop for two days. NOTE It was von Rlbbentrop who had given him assurances that the Yugoslavs would go through with Ntheir Axis agreement, agree-ment, and who now made Hitler a fool in the eyes of the world. - . ! PESSIMISTIC! SIDE I That is the optimistic side of the south European picture. Now let's look at the pessimistic side. Hitler is a man who nurses hatred, but who never lets his (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) JUGOSLAVIA AWAITS I'JAR I'JITII NAZIS Britain, Germany Claim Heavy Damage To Enemy Ships By IIAKRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Britain and Germany claimed heavy damage to enemy ene-my ships today as a preliminary prelim-inary to apparently inevitable war in Jugoslavia. With Jugoslavs rushing final defenses against Nazi troops massed across the closed frontier, the British reported re-ported the Royal Air Force had laid sticks of heaw bombs across the two big 26,000-ton German battleships Scharnhorst and Qne-isenau Qne-isenau in attacks on the French port of Brest. .. Results Uncertain-Complete Uncertain-Complete results of the raid third in a week and 49th of the war against Brest were uncertain but the British expressed belief the battleships would be unable to resume their raiding activities on the Atlantic for some time, at least. The German high command, meanwhile, reported the sinking of 718,000 tons of enemy shipping in March, and the destruction of 18 ships in two attacks on a British Brit-ish convoy this week, in addition to the sinking by a Nazi raider of the British auxiliary cruiser Voltaire and the transport Britannia. Brit-annia. Submarines and raiders took part in attacks which reportedly re-portedly continued today off the Hebrides. In addition, RAF planes raided German objectives during Friday night and heavy German attacks were launched against the English Eng-lish towns of Avonmouth and Yarmouth, Yar-mouth, with some planes ranging as far as the Liverpool area. Holds War Certain Berlin took the position that war was virtually certain with Jugoslavia. Jugo-slavia. There appeared to be lit- tie hope in Belgrade that a conflict con-flict could be averted, although one report said the two Jugoslav vice-premiers might go to Rome in an 11th hour attempt to reach a settlement with the Axis powers. In Athens, there was speculation (Continued on Page Four) Two Utah I'oniGn Ii!!cJ in Auto Traffic Grashc; LOGAN, Utah, April 5 (IT.r A two-car collision at a Logan street intersection today took the life of Mrs. Sarah Miller Nyman, 45, North Logan, and brought Utah's 1941 traffic fatality toll to 34. Police said Mrs. Nyman was thrown from her automobile, dragged drag-ged across the intersection and pinned against the curb when her machine was struck broadside ty one driven by Edward Earl Smith, 35, Logan. TREMONTON, Utah, April 5 (L'X) Mrs. Kjestine U. Rasmus-sen, Rasmus-sen, 62, El wood, Utah, was killed last night when she was struck by a car while trying to cross a street to her ' home. She was the 33rd person killed in Utah traffic accidents this year. Investigating officers said Mrs. Rasmussen had just alighted from her son's car and was crossing the street to her home when she stepped into the path of an auto driven by Carl Day, 29. Burley, Idaho. Day was absolved of responsibility. IVomcn's Field Army Launches Gampsign to Control Gancsr Spread; Proclamation Urges Public Support - The Women's field army of the American society for the control of cancer has launched an educational educa-tional campaign Tn Utah tc .heck the spread of the disease, with Mrs. Leslie H. Cornaby of Spanish Fork, captain of the Utan, Wasatch Was-atch and Juab districts, in charge. Local women cooperating in the movement are Mrs. Stanlev K. Bonnett, Mrs. H. R. Staheli. Mrs. D. O. Wight, Mrs. Jesse Weight, Mrs. J. Erval Christensen, Mrs. Arthur D. Taylor, Mrs. Wayne B. Hales, and Mrs. C. E. Berry. The women urge all organizations organiza-tions and the general public to cooperate co-operate in the drive, and mayors, health officers, and newspaper editors have been asked to cooperate cooper-ate by pointing out the necessity for early treatment of the disease, according to Mrs Bonnett. Mayor Mark Anderson Saturday Satur-day issued a proclamation designating desig-nating the week of April 14 to 21 as "Fight Cancer With Knowl- edge" week. SUN . V em , ! i ' ' ri u I t 24 YEARS AGO TODAY the United States entered World War I - . . and April 6, 1941, finds the nation in a frenzied drive to build up defenses in case war comes again. Men, methods and machines of war have changed much since 1917. Shown above are the planes, the Presidents, the song3 and the girls and soldiers of 1917 and 1941. - & . FLIER FORCED TO BAIL OUT SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 U.R) The fifth air base headquarters headquar-ters announced today that Lieut. Albert W. James of San Diego had been forced to bail out of his army pursuit plane near Morgan, Mor-gan, Utah, when he became lost on a return flight to Salt Lake City from Lowrey Field, Denver. James telephoned the air base headquarters that he landed in his parachute without injury. The pilot-less plane crashed into a hill near Morgan, which is about 35 miles northeast of Salt Lake City in the rugged Wasatch mountains, moun-tains, and was demolished. James, attached to the 39th bombardment group here, had flown from Salt Lake City to Denver Den-ver yesterday to "ferry" Lieut. Jack Alston of Lowrey FSeld back to his home base after Alston Al-ston I7admade a forced landing earlier this week near the Colorado-Utah border and had come here by train. -a)- if- f. PKOCLAMATIOX WHEREAS cancc is one of the most deadly and sinister enemies of the human race, its ravages causing untold suffering suffer-ing and misery and being directly responsible for 145,000 deaths in the United States annually, and WHEREAS early discovery and treatment will permit a vast number of cases the checking or correction of an otherwise fatal condition, and WHEREAS knowledge and public education cannot fail to cut the death rate from this source to a large extent, and bring health, peace of mind and happiness to many of our citizens not alone in distant localities, but here in Utah county and in Provo City, and WHEREAS the Women's Field Army for the Control of Cancer is sponsoring a great public service in carrying on a program of public support, and whereas these women are entitled en-titled to the wholehearted cooperation of all governmental units and particularly of municipalities exercising the traditional power of safeguarding tht- peace and health of their residence, NOW, THEREFORE, I. Mark Anderson, mayor of Provo city, do hereby designate and proclaim the week of April 14 to 21 as "Fight Cancer With Knowledge" week, and commend to all citizens their support of the Women's Field Army in this splendid work. Dated at Provo, Utah. April 12, 1940. MARK ANDERSON. . ........ Mayor of Provo City. r . TUE THurr Tin nir ii e" rrs V OVFr? ii ... ::- 4 5 Kir" -t" 'Y, it , Move Started to Use U. S. Ships to Carry War Supplies Abroad By JOHN A, REIC1IMANN WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.R) Officials today considered asking congress to revise the neutrality act so American ships may carry war materials to East Africa for the Balkan front, via the Red Sea. President Roosevelt has indi- cated he soon may reopen the Red I I Sea to American ships carrying commercial cargoes. He may do that by removing his designation of that area as a combat zone. But congressional action would be required to permit shipments of war materials on American ships. One section of the neutrality neu-trality law prohibits shipments to belligerent territories on American ships. Some officials feel this could be modified to permit arms consignments to "safe" belligerent porta. Follows Rejection Consideration of opening the Red Sea to American ships f ol- ( Continued on Page Three) CAT X: -V-3:.r J L200SQUC1I LS31203 Army Day Message WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.P.) President Roosevelt said in an Army day message today that the entire nation has been inspired by the young men who have entered en-tered America's citizen army with a "singleness of purpose." The chief executive's message to the army was read by Secretary Secre-tary of War Henry L. Stimson on a nation-wide broadcast following a parade of approximately 20,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen and members of patriotic pat-riotic societies along Constitution avenue here. " Mr. Roosevelt said: "Army day provides an occasion occa-sion for me as commander in chief to extend a welcome to hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of you young men who have recently joined the army of the United States. You have . entered the ranks of our armed defenders with a singleness of purpose and an enthusiasm that are an inspiration for all Americans. Ameri-cans. "Your transition from civil life (Continueo. on Page Three) TJiis Day . . . BORN Boy, to Julian L. Bunnell Fronk. and Velma LICENSED TO MARRY Bernard F. Houton. 33, Brig-ham Brig-ham City, and Jennie Z. Lowe. 31, Ogden, married Saturday by county coun-ty clerk. Earl Truman Bigham, 46, Cen-tralia. Cen-tralia. Wash., and Elsie Bell Hpl-den, Hpl-den, 31. Chehalis, Wash., married mar-ried Friday by county clerk. AGREEMENT REACHED liJ COAL STRIKE Term To Be Announced Monday At 10 A. M. By Negotiators NEW YORK, April 5 (U.R) An agreement to open most of the nation's idle soft coal mines next week was reached among wage - hour negotiators for the Appalachian Appalach-ian bituminous industry today. to-day. Terms of the agreement and its scope will be announced at 10 a. m. Monday. . It was understood a majority of operators In the eight-state Appalachian Ap-palachian area had acceded to union demands for a $l-a-dav wage increase and vacations with pay. Affects 338,000 Men The agreement, now being drafted in detail, will affect most of the 333,000 miners idle in . the Appalachian area, it was believed, and some 80,000 more in outlying districts where mines had been closed pending conclusion of the Appalachian negotiations. It was not made clear whether the decision reached today affected af-fected southern operators, who have been holding out against union demands for elimination of the 40-cent wage differential between be-tween the north and south. Dr. John R. Steelman, director of the United States mediation service, announced that MaJ. Percy Tetlow, international representative representa-tive of the United Mine Workers of America, and Charles O'Neill, spokesman for the operators, would "edit a contract based on facta that are on the table" and submit to to the full joint wage-hour wage-hour conference Monday morning. SALT LAKE CITY. April 5 OLP) There was no definite indication indi-cation today that Utah's soft coal mines, closed for a week by the national soft coal strike, would be reopened next week. Advised of reports from New York that an undisclosed agreementto agree-mentto be voted upon Monday had been reached by negotiators, B. P. Manley, executive secretary of the Utah Coal Operators association, asso-ciation, said he had not been advised ad-vised officially of the agreement. A telegram received by Manley this afternoon from the National Coal Operators' asosciation, advised ad-vised that the negotiating committees commit-tees "have recessed until Monday, pending efforts of a small com. mittee to prepare a contract for consideration at a conference Monday. Nothing has been agreed upon so far." LABOR FRONT AT A GLANCE By UNITED PRESS Detroit, Mich Ford Motor Co. strike settlement outlook brighter; United Automobile Workers (CIO) dispute forces shutdown of 34 smaller plants; 125,000 out of work. ( New York Government assured some soft coal mines to open next week; federal mediator says operators oper-ators "refused to comply" with government proposals for new contract with 400,000 United Mine Workers (CIO). Washington Allis - Chalmers officials meet with mediation board; federal intervention threatened threat-ened amid talk of plant seizure. Pittsburgh Big steel contract negotiations near second deadline; Steel Workers' Organizing com-mitee com-mitee calls 100 local presidents to week-end meeting. Cleveland American Magnesium Co. plant shut down by "total stoppage" of 1,000 CIO Die Cast- era demanding wage increases; dispute threatens airplane parts manufacture. Twelve strikes of lesser importance import-ance in progress in national defense de-fense industries. 11 States Represented In Springville Art Exhibit SPRING VILLE With registrations registra-tions noted from 11 states and one foreign country and numerous numer-ous sections of Utah, the high school art exhibit has been the center of attraction and the subject sub-ject of much fine comment the past week, rndications are that a record number of visitors will be reached this year. Sunday is expected to attract its share of art fans, being considered con-sidered the most popular visiting day. A i .n- I A Saturday Sessions Well Attended in Spite Of Stormy Weather; Youth Encouraged To Go Forward With Life Plans SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 (U.R) A call for labor, industry in-dustry and agriculture to unite on a common basis because, "without unity they would fail," was issued this afternoon at the fourth session of the 111th annual L.D.S. conference. The call was made by Albert E. Bowen, member of the Council of Twelve Apostles. "Labor should cooperate with management, management manage-ment with labor, and agriculture with the other two because 0each is indispensable to the oth School Cop At O Honors Speech Meet Young university's 12th annual speech tournament and drama festival came to a successful close Saturday night after two full days of contests participated in by some 700 boys and girls from 37 schools. The tournament was directed by Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the "Y" speecn department. Climaxing the meet, awards were presented to schools staging the best one-act plays. The Samuel Sam-uel French plaque went to Cyprus Cyp-rus high for staging the best drama, "The Clod." Logan high won the B. Y. U. plaque for the best comedy, "Betty-Beth." B. Y. U. plaques also went to Davis high and Payson high for achieving the greatest excellence in class A and class B, respectively. Plnvn wprn lividr? intn two groups, comedies and dramas. In tha .tt-omtv cqtWoV, Vnrie and B. Y. high were adjudged excellent, while Park City, South Summit and East high won honorable honor-able mention. Richfield and Pay-son Pay-son won ratings of excellent in the drama division, while Provo, Rock Springs, Wyo., and North Emery were accorded honorable mention. Five individual awards were presented for outstanding characterization char-acterization to the following: Tla Dean Gledhlll of Richfield; Grant Coomb and Peggy Mitchell of Cyprus; Melba Call of Logan, and John Huisfi of B. Y. high. Dr. Pardoe stated the tournament tourna-ment maintained a high standard throughout. Talent participating was outstanding and the events went off close to schedule. Top honors In debate went to a pair of Wasatch high school girl3 in Heber City Marjorie Clegg and Leah Holdaway. They won in the finals over Lincoln high school's team of Katsumi Yano and Weston Taylor. Topic for debate was "Resolved, That the Power of the Federal Government Should Be Increased." Wasatch upheld the affirmative and Lincoln the negative. Willa Daniels and Edson Packard Pack-ard were coaches of the Wasatch team, while Frank B. Newman coached the Lincoln duo. The six other teams entering the championship flight were American Fork, Lynn Cameron and Junius Reynolds; Box Elder, Lawanna Nebeker and LaRene Jensen; Granite, Richard Lindsay and Kenneth Daybell; Rock Springs, Patricia Wilson and Martha Bowen; Tintic, Fern Richards Rich-ards and Gilbert Bechtol, and South, Betty Folland and Vivian Edman. Earl Fosgren of Box Elder, chairman chair-man of the forum discussion on "Utah's Traffic Problem," adjudged adjudg-ed the best parliamentarian. Other Saturday results follow: Boys retold story, classes A and 13 Wallace Ballard, Davis, superior; su-perior; Willis Wynn, Ogden, Excellent; Ex-cellent; Bob Taylor, Rock Springs, Wyo., honorable mention. Girl3 retold story, class B Barbara Pace, Richfield, excel- ( Continued on Page Four) In addition to individuals who daily tour the galleries, major entertainments, such as the state Kiwanis banquet on April 17, the Federated Women's Clubs tea on April 12, the junior chamber of commerce banquet and meetings of numerous other organizations are expected to greatly increase the attendance. The gallery is open continuously continu-ously from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.. and all are extended a welcome to view the current show. T i ! M V. er," Bowen told 10,000 church members at the afternoon session. "Vituperation, force and name-calling name-calling can only bring disillusionment disillusion-ment in the end," Bowen contended, con-tended, citing current labor strikes that were delaying the national defense effort as an example of what he called "useless disagreement." disagree-ment." . . Despite heavy rains that turned turn-ed into a snowstorm of almost blizzard - proportions, 9,000 attended at-tended sessions throughout the day. In an address directed primarily pri-marily at Mormon youth, Richard L. Evans, youngest L.D.S. general authority at the general session, said that "since an army appears to be a necessary evil it always has under conditions in which we live, I'm sure that you and I wouldn't want an army in our midst who lacked spiritual and moral training." He encouraged youth to go forward for-ward with their plans for life and cautioned them against accepting words of pessimism about the future fu-ture of the world. Hits Liquor Evil First counselor in the presiding bishopric, M. O. Ashton, made an urgent call to church members to combat the evil effects of liq- iuf,r- "e asked all members to do they could to stem the tide and said the Mormon church was it has taken on the liquor menace. men-ace. Other speakers, warning that the "devil is among the saints," asserted that men are preparing for all that Satan desires in Japan, Ja-pan, in China, England, Germany, Italy and in almost every country in the world. Joseph Fielding Smith, member of the Twelve Apostles, directed another plea to church youth this time to marry within their own church and within the temples tem-ples of the church. Six of the highest ranking officers of-ficers of the Mormon faith epoke at the morning-' conference session. ses-sion. More than 10,000 faithful Saints plodded through rain and snow to the Salt Lake tabernacle for the meeting. Feeling of the authorities on (Continued on Page Eight) City Seeks Lease Of Lake Lands for Airport Purposes An application to lease 1500 acres of state land on the east shore of Utah lake for airport use has been presented to the state land board by Provo city. In company with Mayor Mark Anderson, members of the land board visited the land Friday. They will report to the entire board at its next meeting April 17. Provo has applied for a 99-year lease. However, the law provides that no leases on state land may be granted for more than five years, except on grazing land, when it may be had for 12 years, according- to H. Warren Taylor, executive secretary of the board. T AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "Men seem to have no jidjrtnent of values. rve seen 'em almost go wild ovrr silly football rame, but you can hardly get one to look at a new babr." |