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Show Surai da it The Weather UTAH : Partly cloudy In north-went; north-went; .showers Sunday. Cooler north and west Sstnday. Max. temp., Saturday 86 Min. temp., Saturday 42 By Patronizing Home Store n4 Business House VOL. 18, NO. 46 z UTAH'8 ONLY DAII..Y SOUTH OP SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1941 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS DESK CHAT EY TIJX EDITOa Americans are receiving appeals from 700 different agencies seeking to aid this cause or that, and most of. them are, in varying degrees, entirely worthy of support. tsone, however, is worthy of nore universal support than :he drive of the United Service Serv-ice organizations which will jegin June 3. . This is the joint drive of ill the major welfare agencies vorking to provide recreational recreation-al facilities for soldiers dur-ng dur-ng their off-time. Soldiers n their free time with noth-ng noth-ng to do but to saunter up md down the streets of a strange (and often a very imall) town, are a sight which are a perpetual reproach re-proach to our defense effort. America, with all her resourc ?s, can do better than this. We have often been slow to get to grips with the need for :lean, decent places to which soldiers can go during their ff time. But the problem is eing attacked at last, and the 510,765,000 to be raised for service clubs near army md navy cimcs and large de-'ense de-'ense establishments, is cer? ainly a minimum. Here's a :ause in which-all rriay join vith n will. oOo Here and There Rudolf Hess found a new vay to "take a walk" by lirplane . . . Efficiency consists con-sists of doing two things at nce because you're too laz' ;o do one at a time. . . . Pro-luction Pro-luction of passenger autos is .lose to highest level record-id. record-id. The minute people get on :heir feet they want to get ff them. . . . Kansas City nan trucked 425 -sacks of nions all the way to Chicago .nd they were stolen. , It's a Tying shame. ... "Packers Jnite" headline. Sounds like i street car conductors inion. 0O0 Today's Quote: "I think i Hitler is terrible in Ger-nany. Ger-nany. I think a Hitler is ter-ible ter-ible anywhere. I do not vant to have a Hitler in the Jnited States. "Senator Ben-lett Ben-lett Clark, Missouri. 1 MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'i Goinj On in National Affair Ey DREW PEARSON an ROBERT 8. ALLEN Jrass Ring to Clarence Streit. Crusader for English-Speaking English-Speaking Union; Watched League of Nations Die; Urges Federal System of Democracies; Sees Dictators Dicta-tors Weak, Democracies Strong if They Would Get Together; Campaigning on Capitol Hill to Set Up Postwar Post-war Peace Machinery Now. (Editor's" Note The Washington Washi-ngton Merry-Go-Round's Brass s Ring, awarded now and then to distinguished political ' figures, goes this week to Clarence K. Streit, leader of the "Union Now" movement. WASHINGTON About 10 ears sgo Clarence streit was cov-ring cov-ring Geneva for the New York imes. It was his special job to ?port on the' League of Nations, ften a very discouraging- assign-lent. assign-lent. Month after month he saw roblems affecting- the welfare f mankind come .before the cague white slave traffic, opi-m opi-m control, the invasion of Man-huria. Man-huria. Month after month he eard statesmen representing one ountrv or another rise to say hat the paramount interests of ie statesmans' government would ot permit him to concur. I And as time passed. Streit also eard the warning- that the dieta-3 dieta-3 -r nations sought to dominate j ie earth. He heard this warning Continued on Page 6, Sec. 2) PEDESTRA KILLED BY HI CAR Spanish Fork Man Found Dead on Highway-Near Highway-Near Salem Utah county officers Saturday Satur-day pressed a search for a hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed Isaac Adel-bert Adel-bert Beckstead, Jr., 20, of Spanish Fork, on highway 91 half a mile north of Salem earlier in the day. Beckstead was killed outright about 2:15 a. m. Saturday while he was walking home after a trip to Payson, officers said. His body was found in a pool of blood near the middle of the highway. The youth had suffered a fractured frac-tured skull, fractured arm and other serious injuries. 1940 Figure Doubled Death of Beckstead raised Utah county's 1941 traffic toll to 10, just double that of last year when five fatalities had been recorded to May 18. The body was found by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Johnson of Salem, apparently a short time after the accident. They reported to Owen Sabln, Salem marshall. Deputy Sheriff J. Ed. Clark and Highway Patrolmen Charles Allred and Dean Schaerrer took up the investigation inves-tigation of the case. The Beckstead youth was born August 12, 1920, in Spanish Fork, the son of Isaac Adelbert (Dell) and Sarah Ellen Bowers Beckstead. Beck-stead. He was educated in the Spanish Span-ish Fork schools. Surviving -are the parents, one brother Elmer, and three sisters, Mrs. Frank Evans and Mrs. Howard How-ard Yerke of Spanish Fork, and Mrs. Dean Muhlestein of Provo; also one grandmother, Lucretia Beckstead of Spanish Fork. The body Is at the Claudin funeral home pending funeral ar. rangements. BOY KILLED ON MOUNTAIN HIKE OGDEN. Utah, May 17 (U.V.) A 14-year-old Ogden boy, Leland Wayne Oxnam, was killed yesterday yes-terday when he slipped while climbing the Waterfall canyon wall east of here and plunged nearly 100 feet to the rocky creek bed. Young Oxnam, with two companions, com-panions, had planned an all-day hike through the canyon. When the boy fell, his friends summoned aid, but he had died almost instantly. in-stantly. Road Closed by Flood in Sevier RICHFIELD, Utah. May 17 (U.i: Flood waters continued to rise slightly in sevier county today, necessitating the closing of state highway 118 and a temporary closure of the D. & R. G. W. railway rail-way tracks in Marysvale canyon. - The highway was submerged by a foot of water, but engineers did not believe it would be washed out. Seven Army Flyers Killed In Crashes DAYTON, 0., May 17 (U.R) Seven army fliers were killed in two plane crashes which occurred about 50 miles apart in central Ohio during a violent rain-windstorm last' night. The office of Sheriff W. F. Duf-?K - fey at Logan. Ohio, reported that fsve bodies had been recovered from the wreckage of a shin which rammed into a hillside at Sand Run in Hocking county. The occupants were Second Lieutenants Robert Sonnenfield. the pilot; William J. Wiandt, Akron, Ak-ron, Ohio; Robert L. Brown and James Criswell, Pittsburgh, and Sergeant James H. Davis of Shreveport. Brown's father lives in Salt Lake City and his mother at 215 East Eleventh street, Denver, Den-ver, to!o. A witness said that the ship was so badly splintered that none of the wreckage pieces weighed more than five pounds. The plane was believed to be a Beechwood. Two flyers died in the other crash on a farm near Martinsville, Ohio, 45 miles southeast of Dayton. Day-ton. The ships were telieved bound for Wright field, army experimental ex-perimental air laboratory near, Dayton. . . To Visit Provo : ' r y h i . -iii MTLO J. WARNER Legionnaires to Greet Commander PA Provo Dinner Milo J. Warner, national commander com-mander of the American Legion, i3 scheduled to pay a visit to Provo on Tuesday, May 27, when he will speak at a dinner-meeting in his honor at the Hotel Roberts Rob-erts at 7 p. m., according to Kenneth W. Bailey, local post commander, com-mander, who is in charge of arrangements. ar-rangements. Commander Warner will be in Salt Lake on May 26. He "will spend the following day in and about Ogden, leaving late in the afternoon for the Provo banquet meeting, after a tour of Hill field. All legion and auxiliary members mem-bers in Utah are invited to attend at-tend the Provo banquet. Reservations Reserva-tions may be made with Frank T. Gardner, Mrs. Irene Mower, Don Clark and K. W. Bailey. Uo Jorsa Hccjj ForjGelobration In Provo July 4 Horse races scheduled in connection con-nection with the annual Provo Fourth of July celebration July 3, 4 and 5 have been cancelled because the pari-mutuel betting conducted in connection with the races in the past has been declared de-clared by county and state officials offi-cials to be illegal,' officers of the celebration announced Saturday. In a written statement, the celebration moguls stated: " . . . There has been no change in the law since 1933 when Senate Bill No. 5 was passed at the second special session of the legislature, but law enforcement officials of both county and state have announced an-nounced that they will be compelled, compell-ed, this year, to enforce the law against gambling, pool selling, option, selling, book making or betting as provided in Chapter 19 of the Penal Code passed in 1933. "Under these circumstances the directors of the Provo July Fourth celebration have decided that it will be impossible to hold the race meet this year and consequently this part of the proposed program has been cancelled." The statement was signed by KL E. Weight, president; Ivan W. Young, E. L. Hansen and Aura C. Hatch, vice presidents, and Clayton Clay-ton Jenkins, secretary-treasurer. Idaho Declines Home Guard Unit BOISE. Idaho. May 17 a: Idaho does not need a home guard made up of ex-service men at present. Governor Chase A. Clark said today. He informed Brigadier General M. G. McConnel, state adjutant general, that existing state, county coun-ty and city law enforcement agencies agen-cies appeared to be sufficient to protect property of the state. "I believe we are free, to a great extent, of any subversive influence in-fluence or any threat of damage from sabotage within the state," Clark said. "I think a person would have to go through the State with a fine-toothed comb to find anybody who is not patriotic."" LEGISLATOR TO COtlVEI MONDAY noon Governor Maw Prepares Message for Special Session SALT LAKE CITY, May 18 (U.R) Governor Herbert B. Maw goes before the Utah legislature in its second special spe-cial session, Monday, with an appeal for final ratification of his program for streamlined stream-lined government. The governor expected to present pres-ent his budget message and message mes-sage to the legislature at a joint session of the senate and house of representatives at which he would ask for: 1. Confirmation by the senate of 28 appointees to head 16 new departments created by the legislature leg-islature at its first and second sessions of 1941. 2. Appropriations to operate the state during the next fiscal year. 3. A program for coordination of Utah's defense effort with the national effort. Governor Maw anticipated "little "lit-tle difficulty" in obtaining final approval from the legislature for his program of streamlined government. gov-ernment. He predicted it would be put into effect at a savings for Utah taxpayers, and anticipated a lowered budget for the next fiscal year. As time for the special session drew near, legislators back from a two-month visit and report to the "folks at home" and those who looked to the legislature for jobs under the new administration, administra-tion, crowded Salt Lake City hotels. ho-tels. Administration supporters said there would be "no trouble at all" in putting through the final phases of the governor's program. Others hinted, however, there might be "one or two controversial" issues offered the legislature and that the senate might refuse to confirm con-firm some of the governor's nominees nom-inees to state departments. Narne3of the. 23 key jmen. aJ-. ready had been submitted to a special senate committee who later la-ter will steer the appointments through the upper chamber. It was understood names of the appointees ap-pointees might not be made pub- lie until after senate ratification was obtained. . Another issue apt to be disputed dis-puted was the proposal to allocate allo-cate $800,000 in auto license revenue rev-enue to the department of publicity publici-ty and industrial expansion. : Opponents of the project promised prom-ised a "fight to the finish" if an effort were made to reintroduce the bill at the snecial session. Two attempts to take the $800,000 away from cities and towns were made at the' regular session, but the bills failed to reach Governor Maw's desk. At the same time, labor groups were understood to b3 keeping a close eye on proposals for.. estate lishing home guard units and similar sim-ilar bodies to replace the national guard. Labor's position was that, while there was whole-hearted support of national defense efforts as a whole, any measures that might pave the way for relaxation of labor's gains or would permit Introduction In-troduction of "strike-breakers" in the state would be fought. Governor Maw hoped the -Special session would last no longer than two weeks. . Gsrniany Clay .Try To Obtain Dakar WASHINGTON. May 17 i;.D Senator Claude Pepper, (D), Fla., predicted tod;jy that Germany will try to obtain Dakar in West Africa either by force or by collaboration col-laboration with the French and use it eventually as a base for an attack against South America. Pepper made his prediction on the front steps of the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt. He said his statement reflected his own views rather than those of Mr. Roosevelt. NEW YORK,, May 17 (UJ! National officails" of the Committee Commit-tee to defend America by aiding the allies urged President Roosevelt Roose-velt today to announce that the United States would noC permit the Axis powers to get "direct or indirect control" of the French African. port of Dakar, Portugal's Azores or Caue Verde Islands, or Spains Canary islands. BAPTISTS MEET SALT LAKE CITY, May 17 K) Utah Baptists had adjourned their annual two-day convention today after reelecting C. H. Col-well Col-well of Salt Lake City as president presi-dent of the state convention, and Rev. VT. P. Whittemore of Ogden as vice president. JE Message to A TJ -- j-... Ho practice, but the real thing one ol America's over-age destroyers now serving In the British Navy on Atlantic patrcu fires a depth bomb- f t a lurons submarine. Huge columns oi water arise from the depths as the bomb is discnarged. writing "tinis" to the career of any suDmarine to the near vicinity. Ashton to Pro vo - Hard Goal Mine Ordered by Lenis . ' To Stop Corking , BY UNITED "PRESS A work stoppage .in all hard coal mines throughout the anthracite anthra-cite area, was called today by President John L. Lewis of " the United Mine Workers of America (CIO), after attempts to reach an agreement between mine operators opera-tors and union officials had reached reach-ed a stalemate. Meanwhile' negotiations approached ap-proached a showdown in the dispute dis-pute threatening production of soft coal, indispensable fuel for defense industries. v. Representatives of - southern operators op-erators and the United . Mine Workers union (CIO) continued in conference although operators said the stalemate appeared "hopeless" and Lewis said.it might be "productive "pro-ductive of a crisis." The dispute centered on southern south-ern operators' demand for a wage scule 40 tents per day below that in northern fields. Lewis has threatened a new work stoppage in both northern and souuitia fields unless agreement is reached reach-ed by Tuesday, 4 Another labor - management deadlock continued on the Pacific coast where a strike of 1,700 AFL and CIO machinists closed 11 San Francisco shipyards with $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 in defense contracts. John P. Frey, chief of the Ab L metal trades department, indicated a major development may be expected expect-ed soon. . Gov. Culbert Olson of California Califor-nia met again with strike leaders lead-ers and employer representatives'. It was reported he might attempt to call a mass meeting of the 15,000 workmen made idle by the strike. Maiden Flight of Bomber Postponed SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 17 V.i: The maiden flight of the largest airplane ever built the Douglas B-19 tombcr has been postponed until next week because be-cause its brakes must be adjusted. Majors Stanley Umstead, Howard How-ard C. Bunker and Donald Putt had been expected to make the first flight today. They will fly the ship "without previous an-nouncement'' an-nouncement'' late next week, if the weather Is favorable. Drunken Driving Costs $100 Fine PLEASANT GROVE Karl P. Roberts, SO, of Lehi, was arrested .Wednesday by Deputy Arthur inters for drunken driving with; in the city limits. He was fined $100 or 30 days in jail by Justice C O. Newman at a hearing held Thursday. - Boat From U. S. i I ... t i Speak at Conference Provo stake quarterly 'conference 'confer-ence which begins - with ' welfare and priesthood meetings Saturday, Satur-day, will , continue today, with general public sessions at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., and a Climactic M. I. A. program at 7:30 p. m.. ail at the tabernacle, according to President Charles E. Rowan. Preceding the first general session ses-sion will De a special meeting called by M. O. Ashton of the presiding bishopric for 8:30 a.m., at the "irst ward chapel, with the stake presidency, high council, coun-cil, bishoprics, and everyone having hav-ing to do with Aaronic priesthood suxervision expected to attend. -f jrfishop Ashton will address the two general sessions, along with memoera o tne stake presidency, missionaries, and otner speakers. Aiusic tor tnc morning session win be under the direction of'Kaipn britscn of the t itth ward. In uic auernoon the . music will be directed di-rected by Vera joncs or, the Bonneville Bon-neville ward. - 'ine standard quorum award will do presented the lionnevmt atacons at uiu atlcrnoon meeting. meet-ing. Yung to Speak Eluer Cmtord E. Young rti American oi'K, assistant to the quorum or me twelve apostica, will deliver an address at tue con lei ence i conjoint program to j be conducted by i tne stane M. 1; A., at: 7:3U p. m., according to Lr. Kusscll bwenson, president of the . AI. to. I. A. Remainder of the program follows: fol-lows: - " . . Organ prelude, Jay Keeler; congregational con-gregational singing ; . duet, , Ariel rsalhf and Ralph tSritsch; scripture scrip-ture reading, Morris Clinger; instrumental in-strumental trio under direction of Mrs. Berne 11 Cloward; organ solo, "ihe Lost Chord," by riullivan, played by Jay Keeler; instrumental instrumen-tal trio under direction of Iiernell Cloward; ; congregational singing; organ postlude, Jay Keeler. U. S. To Purcliaca 39 Danish ship WASHINGTON, May 17 ." f.I!) The maritime commission is completing com-pleting arrangements for assuming assum-ing title to 39 seized Danish ships as soon as President Roosevelt signs the pending ship-requisitioning bill into law, it was disclosed today. Some of the vessels will be given to Britain, but the exact number is unknown. The ships, placed under "protective "pro-tective custody" by this government govern-ment at the end of March, include in-clude 33 freighters and two tankers tank-ers in U. S. ports and four freighters freight-ers in -the Philippines, aggregating aggregat-ing 10,871 gross tons. They will be bought outright with money from the $7,000,000.-000 $7,000,000.-000 lend-lease appropriation or. in the event Danish interests here desire it, will be acquired and paid for under condemnation procedure, proced-ure, contained in the requisitioning bill. ... Britain, GeriBaiay Stage ' Batt! Irao' Oil Fields British Attask Axis Aerial Units in Mosul Oil Fields; Nazis Raid R.A.F. Air Base At Iraq Town of Habbaniya . By UNITED PRESS Great Britain and Germany battled on the land and sea and in the air in the Eastern Mediterranean today, trading heavy blows in the spreading campaign for control of the Iracf oil fields and the Suez Canal. In Iraq, the British attacked Axis aerial units in the heart of the Mosul oil fields and reported that German bomt)-ers bomt)-ers and Messersehmitt-110 fighters had raided the Royal Air Force base at he Iraq town of Habbaniya. The British re- ported they had destroyed a num- ber of Axis planes in Iraq and al- Liooseueii I'uts -Final Touches on Civilian Set - Up WASHINGTON. May 17 U.P President Roosevelt next .week will called upon millions of Americans civilian men, women and children chil-dren to volunteer their services for non-military defense tasks and probably will name Mayor tnoreno H. LaGuardia of New York to direct the vast new effort, it was learned today. By executive order, probably to be issued Monday or Tuesday, the president will create the office for civilian defense which will at tempt to utilize the resources of civilian manpower in the same way that the office of production management utilizes machines to make the tools of defense. Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference yesterday that the plan, on which drafting officials have been highy secretive, might be put before him on Monday for final approval. It was learned on good authority author-ity that under the O. C. D. program, pro-gram, civilians will be called upon for voluntary training in duties associated with defense of the na- duties ranging from combating fire bombs to keeping an eye on prices. Patriotic Oitcs Slated Today at Three Programs " Emphasizing te value and responsibility re-sponsibility of citizenship and providing pro-viding opportunity to welcome into American membership those who have become citizens in the past year, "I Am an American" day will be celebrated nt a patriotic patrio-tic program at the Utah county fair grounds at 4:15 p. m. today. Everyone is invited. The program will Include an address by O. Meredith Wilson of the n, Y. U. faculty, a flag ritual by Che Provo Elks, a song, "God Bless the U. S. A.," composed by S. W. Williams, sung ly a group of Provo high school students under direction of Ernest Pax-man; Pax-man; a solo. "I Am an American," LaVell Knight; a solo, "The Flag Without a Stain," Elaine Brown, and a solo. "God Bless America," by Weston Brown. Mayor Mark Anderson will be master of ceremonies. cere-monies. . ' Two other I Am an American" day programs are scheduled during dur-ing the day. At the Utah county infirmary will be a program at 2:30 with County Commissioner Sylvari W. Clark and Principal J. W. Thornton of the Farrer school as main speakers, Refreshments Refresh-ments and an inspection of the infirmary by visitors will follow. At 2 p. m. is scheduled a program pro-gram at C'CC Camp MA-1, located locat-ed just east of the golf course, with A. Sherman Christensen, Provo attorney, as speaker on the subject, "What it Means to Be an . American." Ellen Anderson will sing patriotic numbers. The program is under direction of Captain Walter W. Jones,-company commander, and .Wells L. Brimhall, project superintendent. Hundley Services To Be Held Today Funeral" services for Ralph C. Hundley, 33. of Provo, whose body was found Friday as climax of a 61-day search that? followed his drowning March 15, will be held today at 1:30 in the Pioneer ward. Friends may call at the Hundley home, S58 West Second South, prior to services. Burial will be in the city cemetery. Survivors in audition to those previously listed include a half-sister, half-sister, Mrs. Alice Maurel of Los Angeles, a half-brother, E. J. Hundley of Provo, and a grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. John C. Flittr.er of Provo. e for so m raids on rear line Dases in Greece, where the Menidi and Hassani airdromes were heavily bombarded. Raid Syrian Bases . In Syria, British bombers again raided the air base used by Axis aerial units at Palmyra and were reported by the French to have been pursued for the first time by French fighter craft. Unconfirmed reports reaching Istanbul said clashes had occurred between French and British forces on the Palestine border. The Royal Air Force also reported it had machine gunned German aircraft at the Mosul airdrome In the Iraq oil fields. In . North Africa, the Germans reported they had wiped out British Brit-ish gains (announced yesterday) In the Solium frontier sector, but sharp fighting was reported around the Libyan Fort Capuzzo, where the British sa"id they cap. tured 500 prisoners and disable-numerous disable-numerous motor vehicles. - . The British communique did not refer to Friday's developments in the Solium sector, where the Imperial Im-perial forces had advanced previously pre-viously to the Libyan frontier but were reported by Berlin to have been hurled back. Reports received by the German official news agency through French sources relayed Iraq claims that the pro-Axis Premier Rashid All Algailani had rallied his troops in a battle with the British at the Port of Basra. The Iraqi, reinforced rein-forced by arrival of , German and Italian air support, apparently were attempting to recover from a series of British air blows, but the military developments there continued obscure. . . British Bomb Cologne- The war in the air was renewed in Europe, with the British bomb, era striking at Cologne, Boulogne and the , French coast, while the luftwaffe hammered the great English industrial city of Birming ham andother Midlands targets during:; the night. But greatest interest centered on the campaign in the Near East, and specially on the position of the French government gov-ernment in view . of stiffening warnlogs from Britain and the United States Bgainut aiding Germany. Ger-many. British reports, especially from Cairo, sought to frive the impression impres-sion that many French in Syria were willing to aid the British, and one report was that a. French plane had dropped a message urg ing the RAF to bomb the German and Italian craft in the French colony. To Aid Britihh An estimated 50,000 French in the Degaulist movement were said to be in the Palestine area, ready to aid the British forces there if they have not already gone into action on the Syrian border. : Turkey, which was understood to have received an "encouraging" message from the British, waa almost al-most isolated as a result of the Axis penetration into the Near East, but London message said that the British had reassured the Turks that the situation in Syria could be handled rapidly and with, out great danger. Moscow officially denied a report re-port broadcast by the Baghdad (Continued on Page Six) Exchange Club to Meet Here Monday Joseph Bergen, Utah state aeronautical aero-nautical director, will address the Provo Exchange club Monday, at 8 p. m., at Hotel Roberts, announces an-nounces D. M. Innes, president. This Day . BORN Girl, to Jaseph Reed and LcHtha E. Combrook Bergener of Eureka, May 13, Utah Valley hospital.' LICENSED TO MARRY " Byron Woodland. 25. Provo, and Vera Bagley, 24. Provo. Rex Walker. 21. Pleasant Grovn, and Margaret Stark. 19, Orem. Edwin Lyman, 26, Delta, and Loui3e Hansen, 21, Delta. |