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Show PAGE - TWO PROVO (UTAH J : SUNDAY' T HERALD,- SUNDAY, "APRIL; 5, 1942 ' SECTION TWO Che Relief Pitcher Also Seems to Have Stuff on Hon. Ball vary ARtTBOOt (xevptlBg Saturday ut Bndtr Harald'Pabitahad Suaaa Moraine Fabllahad by (t Htftll Corporation M Sou til Flrat Waat Btrart, Froro, Utah. Entarad a MCOB4 cla manor . at ,th postafnea ta Proro. Utah, aadar tha act of March . S, 117. Oilman, Kteol Ruth man. Natloaal drartla-tnc drartla-tnc rapraiHintatlTaa, Now Tork, San FrancUeo, Datrott. Boston, Vom Aaffelaaj Chlcas. U am bar ' United Praaa. N. BL A Barrios. the Scrlppa La-u f? Nawspapsra Audit Buraaa of Cirealatloa, OJbarty through aQ tha land" Tba Liberty Ball ""bacriptioa terms by carrier In Utah aounty. ; 16 cants tha month. f l.M (or ata month, la adraaoa; fT.M'tha year, la advaa ar- mall . anywhere ta United States ar t tosaeaalons S cent the month; tl.Ot tor BU month; 16.71 tha year ta advance. . - . . , Tba Herald will not assume financial responsibility re-sponsibility 'for any errors which may appear In advertisements published in Its columns. la thos Instances where the paper is at fault. It will reprint that part of tha advertisement fas which the typographical mistake occurs. Ax the Axis With Defence Stamps Provo's ' whirlwind pledge ' campaign cam-paign to enroll all the income-receivers of the ' city in the service of the nation will, be staged Monday night in a two-hour home-to-home canvass. 1 There is no question but that the response from "the citizens will be wholehearted and .as liberal as earning capacity "will allow. In this war the call is 4 clear to every . loyal man and woman fo enlist. No one will ,stand a part, - none will , claim exemption. 'Everyone who is contacted by one of the volunteer minute men Monday night should keep in mind that the pledge he is asked to sign is not an order for the purchase of bonds, but a pledge to buy a definite defi-nite amount of defense stamps or bonds regularly, for' the duration. The information is strictly confidential confiden-tial and the pledge is not a legal instrument, but a moral obligation only. The fact that a person is already buying as many bonds as his income in-come allows, does not prevent him from signing a pledge, because the information gained in the pledge drive will give the government leaders an idea of how much cash can be expected from this source. From a selfish standpoint the bond investment will mean a cash reserve that may come-in handy in the" years after "the wdr. It' should . be the safest investment in the world today. Chile Finds Out About War Chile and Argentina, apparently preferring appeasement to solidarity, solidar-ity, refused to join their sister American Amer-ican Republics at the Rio de Janeiro conference in a firm front against the axis. Chile, at least, is finding her claim of neutrality doesn't mean much to the Great Man with the little mustache. The-Chilean freighter Tolten was torpedoed and sunk by an axis submarine sub-marine and 27 Chilean sailors were lost. A , surprising number of citizens citi-zens of that sprawling country thought that as long as they : did not provoke the axis, nothing would happen to them. They, like, Norway, Nor-way, Holland, Belgium and others, now know that the Nazi pledge is as crooked as the swastika. Another Blow Cease ; complaining, girdle-less ladies. Golfers, grumble not at the ban on golf balls. Moan not, motorists, motor-ists, that you cannot re-tire. A far greater blow has been struck at American civilization. Music may have the charm to soothe savage beasts, but not the dogs of war. Production Pro-duction of juke boxes will be stopped. stop-ped. The government says so. Juke box materials are needed for planes. After the present supply runs out, no more, beer hall Brahms and Bach, no filling station fugues. No more "Rose O'Day" and "Deep in the Heart. of Texas'' with, your steak and onions. Orice more platters will be something upon which food is served. EiinnmifiiniiHHimuuiiniiinuiiniininjH ilium: The Washington Merry-Co-Round A. Daily Picture of What' Going On In National Affairs (The famous Pearson-Allen brass ring and a free ride on The Washington Merry-Go-Round goes this week to Ezequiel Padilla, Foreign Minister of Mexico, and one of the genuine Good Neighbors of the United State.) WASHINGTON We have a lot to worry about in various parts of the world India, Australia, Aus-tralia, the Near East. But, closer to home, the arrival of a distinguished foreign diplomat this week emphasized the fact that we have a lot to be thankful for among our neighbors. The visitor was the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ezequiel Padilla, six feet, erect, bronzed and handsome, a man for whom the crowds in Rio de Janeiro last winter cheered themselves hoarse. ; In Washington, stoic Anglo-Saxon crowds did not go wild. There was no cheering when Padilla passed down Pennsylvania Avenue. But to Latin-American diplomats and the State Department De-partment it was a remarkable 'occasion. For this is the first time in anyone's memory that a Mexican Foreign Minister has visited Washington. Washing-ton. In 1927, Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State under Coolidge, sent a telegram to Mexico warning that it was "on trial" before the world. And in the last war, Mexico listened sympathetically sympathet-ically to German plots against the United States NO 5th COLUMN But under Foreign Minister Padilla and , his friendly government it is different. Facing a battery of newsmen after his arrival, Padilla was asked: "How many Japanese do you have?" - "About five thousand," said Padilla. Then he smiled. "If you want the precise ciphers 4,860." Padilla knew precisely for he has rounded up every one of the Axis residents of Mexico, and confined their leaders to the rugged old fortress of San Carlos de Perote, scene of bloody battles between the Mexicans and the French In the days of Emperor Maximilian. "We arc keenly aware of the danger," says Padilla: "I believe the peril of fifth column activity Is the greatest problem for Mexico today. to-day. And the same thing is true for other Latin-American Latin-American countries, such as Brazil, which has 300,000 Japanese; and Argentina and Chile, which have large settlements of Germans." m contrast to this, Washington officials remember 1917, and Lothar Witzke. GERMAN PLOT IN MEXICO Shortly after the break of relations between be-tween Germany and the United States in the .first World War, a German spy named Lothar Witzke fled to Mexico City, reported to .German Minister Von Eckhardt, and boasted to his friends that as soon as he could get back across the border, "Hell will break loose in the United States, sometime in April or May." His scheme was to organize an uprising among Negroes, to blow up mines, bridges, railroads, rail-roads, industrial plants arid communication lines. - r-' ' r." ' Witzke was only one of the German spies who fled to Mexico but he was the most desperate des-perate of the lot: He had played an important Bjr Drrw Pearson aao Robert 8. Allea part in the destruction of those two great arsenals ar-senals in New Jersey, Black Tom and Kings-land. Kings-land. Later he was caught, hailed before a U. S. military commission, and condemned "to be hanged by the neck until dead." But before that happened, he had received the assistance of Gen. Calles, military governor of Sonora, who supplied him with a revolver and a permit to carry it in Mexico. Calles was strongly pro-German, as was President Car-ranza Car-ranza himself, and many members of the Mexican Mex-ican cabinet. This attitude in Mexico was so well known in Berlin that the Wilhelmstrasse actually had the audacity to propose that Kexico make war against the United States. This was the notorious notori-ous Zimmermann note, written by the German Foreign Minister, urging Mexico to attack, and promising Arizona, Texas, California, New Mexico Mex-ico in return. At that time Mexicans were recalling bitterly bit-terly that on April 21, 1914, the American fleet fired on Vera Cruz, and 200 Mexicans were killed. Height of irony was reached when, on March 14, 1933, the man who, as Secretary of the Navy In 1914, ordered the American fleet to fire, was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. And to make the irony complete, the first thing Padilla did last week even before he came to Washington was to visit Josephus Daniels at his home in Raleigh. N. C. By eight years of gentle friendliness, even without the knowledge of Spanish, Daniels made Mexico forget, for-get, as nearly as it ever could, the incident of April 21, 1914. LONGTIME U. S. FRIEND Padilla. has been a friend of the" United States ever since the youthful days of his exile. He grew up among the poor campesinos in the State of Guerrero, and became an active revolutionary. revo-lutionary. With the changing tides of Mexican politics, he was forced to leave the country, came to New York City, enrolled as a student in Columbia University. Padilla has been half Yankee ever since. He has a good command of English, a fondness for American cigarettes, rises early, goes to the office early, has no siesta after lunch, loves golf and billiards. In spite of this friendliness, it would be false to say that all problems have vanished in the sunshine over the Rio Grande. There remains re-mains the fact that Mexico's Minister of Interior, Inter-ior, Miguel Aleman, is dangerously pro-German, and the still more troublesome fact that the President's brother, Maxlmino A Vila Camacho, continues to do business with the black-listed Swedish industrialist, Axel Wenner-Gren. But these troubles are small compared with what Mexico was in the dark days when Witzke, Jahnke, Dilger, Hermann, Hinsch, and that mot-ly mot-ly crew of German spies and saboteurs crossed the border to reorganize In Mexico the machine that had been disrupted in the United States. And Ezequiel Padilla is the man who personifies per-sonifies the change in Mexico the Mexico which broke relations with Japan four hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) -- s as Once News, Now History Twenty-five Years Aro Today K From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD April, 1917 At a meeting of the county commissioners, plans for a county fair to be held in September got underway. W. H. Chipman and W. M. Wilson were appointed as a committee of two to visit other counties -whererf airs were beinr held to obtain ideas. In the finals of the national basketball tournament held in Chicago, Illinois A. C. defeated B. Y. U. It was a hard-fought game, according to C. J. Hawkins secretary of the Philharmonic society who witnessed the game, but the removal of Ralph Eggert sen early in the game, gave the Illinois boys a very definite edge. Mayor James e. Daniels re ceived a telegram from the re. cruiting department of the Navy to the effect that Utah would furnish 300 men for the Navy by April 20. Captain Guthrie of the recruiting department urged every loyal citizen to assist in bringing the navy up to war time strength. Outstanding- bout of the B. Y. U. boxing and wrestling tourna ment finals was the colorful wrestling match between Tanner and Shumway. Tanner won in nine minutes, but in that time the spectators were treated to a good view of every hold in the books. 12 JOBS VACANT, ONE INDUCTED SHUTESBURY, Mass., April (U.R) Twelve town offices will be left open when Henry Dihlman 34, is inducted into the army next ween. Dihlman is chairman of the se-" lectmen, the board of public wel fare, the board of health, and civ ilian defense committee, principal or tne center scnool, identification officer for the town, director or old-age assistance, library trustee and janitor, school department janitor, president of the teachers' asociation and a registrar ot voters. AUNT HET By ROBERT QTjnXKZf "These things they call Jeeps must be awful easy, on tires. In every magazine maga-zine picture I see, . they ain't got a single wheel on the ground. I Was Thinking Bfl ELSIE C. CARROLL I was thinking that such days as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter in times like these made one feel the irony of life. These traditional holidays have come down to "us . through the years wrapped in an aura of idealism as they symbolize some of the finest otti ti i HauuAf , uiind jhqs t imnres-L sive ceremonies, and deepest-should apply to S. 1. Levin, di Aid Proffered in Remodeling of Homes in County The Home Owners Loan corporation corpo-ration will cooperate with the Provo homes registration office by furnishing free technical advice ad-vice to property owners in this area wishing to remodel or convert con-vert their homes into apartments for defense workers, according to L. L. Fish, HOLC senior recondi-tlnninp' recondi-tlnninp' inanoctor for Utah. LjPersons wishing this . service, month in spite of the increased All's Reasbnabiy Quiet Labor Front Reports On BY PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4 ror 14 days hearings of the "little steel" labor case have been held before a three-man panel of the National War Labor Board. In this time the four companies, Bethlehem, Inland, Republic and Youngstown, have stated their cases.. There will be a week or so in which reports will be prepared pre-pared by the board panel. Then will come rebuttal and possibly rebuttal. It may be the end of April before any decision is handed down on the Steer Workers Work-ers f Organizing Committee demands de-mands for . Jl-a-day increases, union closed job and check-off. The important fact in this situation sit-uation is that while there hearings hear-ings are in progress, the 640,000 steel Industry employes are on the job. There Is no strike involved. in-volved. You may criticize the slowness of this procedure as much as you please. It is costly for management, manage-ment, labor and government. It is filled with headaches, for in all such negotiations there is a deal of pounding oh tables, hurling hurl-ing of charges, and losing of tempers. But you can't overlook the fact that while all this goes on, war production has not stopped. The hopefulness of this condition condi-tion is nevertheless in the statistics statis-tics on labor conditions for February Feb-ruary which was made public by the Department of Labor. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, it takes a month to get together anything like accurate accur-ate figures on the national strike situation. National Association of . Manufacturers dashes into print shortly after the first of each month for the preceding month, and N. A. M. has taken occasion to blast away at Labor Department statistics. The N. A. M. survey is, however, an inadequately in-adequately spotty check, based on newspaper clippings received up to the end of each month, and can hardly be dignified as upstanding up-standing statistics. Three Sources Needed To' get the real strike picture, you have to put together three reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics Sta-tistics strike summary, the statement state-ment of the Conciliation Service, and the defense strike summary of War Production Board's labor division. BLS bases its summary on the number of strikes beginning- in each month. For February it was 190 new strikes, involving 57,000 workers, as against . the 1935-39 five-year average of 182 strikes involving 69,611 workers. It was, in other words, a below-average faiths of the human race. Man intuitively feels thankful for his blessings and desires to express his thanksgiving. He instinctively worships what or whom he recognizes recog-nizes as divine. He innately yearns for assurance of his persistence after mortal death. But when great social cataclysms catac-lysms such as the present war bring all his old traditions, his old assurances and faiths crashing about him, it is difficult for him to keep his bearings and to realize that there are any values left in life. That is why we need to make a conscious effort to retain for our selves and for our children after us the meanings of these traditional tradi-tional holy-days. When we ponder the miracle of the Resurrection for which Easter stands, we can see that our wildest dreams of strange happenings happen-ings could not shadow the event of the rising from the tomb of the Son af Man. When we think how long it was before that fact wao fully credited we know that any strange phenomenon may finally become accepted. This saouid give us faith that in time the miracle of lasting Peace on Earth .Good Will to Man may come to pass. For many eras after the resur rection of Christ, in fact down to the. close of the middle ages His followers were timid aoout proclaiming pro-claiming his resurrection, for they were still fugitives from pagan persecution. At their Easter as semblages, they would greet each other almost fearfully with the words: "Christ is risen." We must remember that 1t was dlffi cult for Mary Magdalene to im press this fact upon disciples who personally knew the Master, alt er she found the stone rolled away from the door of the sacred tombi He appeared among . them three times before they were able to credit their eyes and ears. Doubting Doubt-ing Thomas even had to put his fingers in the raw wounds before he could be convinced. The betrayal, the accusation. the crucifixion, the entombment, the resurrection followed each oth er in rapid succession. Yet those near the Christ could scarcely realize the truth of his last words: "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Those are the words to which we need to cling in these darkened days. Though we cannot see the Savior in the resurrected state as his apostles saw him, though ' we cannot feel his wounds as Thomas did, we can put ourselves into harmony with His divine teach ings and feel that despite the. hor-l rors of this hour He is standing near, waiting patiently, while we wait impatiently for the dawn of a better day. Found in Australia, the bark ing lizard gives a coughing bark when disturbed. rector of the Provo homes regis tration office, Mr. Fish said. The HOLC representative urged urg-ed support of the Provo HRO in its program to convert vacant houses and vacant space into homes for defense workers. "Civic organizations, banks, home-financing agencies and property prop-erty owners themselves should cooperate in this effort," said Mr. Fish. "In the first place, this is the speediest and most economical economi-cal way to provide defense housing. hous-ing. Second, it conserves community com-munity assets and prevents overbuilding over-building during the emergency; and third, it often gives property owners an opportunity to derive revenue from structures which haven't been paying for themselves." them-selves." The process by which property owners. can obtain expert technical techni-cal guidance in rehabilitating their structures was explained by Mr. Fish. "Apply to the homes registration regis-tration office at 32 West Center, and if your property can toe converted con-verted into units for defense workers your application will be sent to an HOLC technician. That technician will advise you without with-out charge on the feasibility of your ideas, discuss general plans, estimate the cost, of reconditioning, recondition-ing, and attempt to figure out with you how much revenue can be derived through rent." As assistant reconditioning supervisor su-pervisor of the San Francisco regional office, Mr. Fish had a part in the vast HOLC program which resulted in the reconditioning recondition-ing of 550,000 homes at an expenditure ex-penditure of 1170,000,000. levels of "employment. 3 A1 single," one-day strike in a New Bedford textile mill accounted for a fourth of all the time lost by labor trouble. trou-ble. Even this was'made up, for the union forced the employes who had refused to work unless given time and a half on a holiday to return to the job the following New Books In The library "THE MOON IS DOWN," by John Steinbeck rj The scene of the book is any conquered country in any time. The author has purposely refrain ed from making it literally true to actual events. Although the weapons and ideologies may: be of the present, they are only vehicles for the theme that a free brave people is unconquerable. "COLUMBUS," by Rafael Saba-tint Saba-tint This romantic novel re-creates the court of Ferdinand and Isabella Isa-bella in the days when Columbus came seeking a sponsor in search for a new route west to ;the Indies. The love story of Columbus Colum-bus and the gypsy dancer, Beat-riz, Beat-riz, is one of the most alluring Sabatini has ever told. "THE GAY GALLIA RD," by Margaret Mar-garet Trwin Mary Queen of Scots, and Both-well, Both-well, the Gay Galllard, are the subjects of this new historical romance, ro-mance, and their tragic story, one of the strangest dramas in history, his-tory, unfolds with all the color, pageantry and fierce passion of the Elizabethan world. "SAM SMALL FLIES AGAIN," by Eric Knight Some of the time Sam is an ordinary mortal the rest of the time . . . Many readers will hold that Eric Knight has done his finest work in creating Sam Small. "BETWEEN TWO AUTUMNS," by Percy Marks This concerns a charming stranger blown into the sanctuary sanctu-ary of Tom Steele's home on the wings of a violent October storm. A temporary refugee from the weather, he' remains till the next autumn to become an essential part of the household and to affect af-fect profoundly the lives of all whom he touches. "SOPHIA," by St. John Ervine This novel opens rather start-lingly start-lingly with the death of its heroine. hero-ine. However, the author's spirit, humor, and resourcefulness make his story an intriguing, even plausible speculation upon the life after death. "ROGUE'S LEGACY," by Babette Deutch A remarkable biographical novel centered about the great est of French poets, and a rogue of the first water. Not only Francois Villion, but the whole dark underworld of medieval Paris spring to life in this entertaining book. Also the following new mysteries: mys-teries: "Footsteps Behind Her," by Mitchell Wilson; "Murder With Your Malted," by Jerome Barry; "Murder With Southern Hospitality," by Leslie Ford; "Murder Behind the Mike," by Saturday and make up the lost .f0 Goldman; ''Death Turns WAR QUIZ 1. The insignia in this picture resembles a fortress prison. Does it indicate Army military police? If not, what does it signify? f 2. As in the last World War, the British ar now using the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea as a place of impris onment for cap- tu r e d enemies What novelist devoted much of his time to writing about this island Dickens, Hall Calne, Thackeray, R. L. Stevenson? . 3. In connection with this same island, is it noted for a peculiar breed of dog, sheep, cat or pig ? Answers on Page 3 Sec. 2 REES P.-T. A. MEETING SPANISH FORK New officers for the coming two years for the P.-T. A. of the Rees school will be elected at a special reorganization meeting to be held ot the scnool Wednesday, April 8 at 8 p. tcl. It is announced by Mrs. Thea G rote-gut, rote-gut, president. Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd of Provo, will be the guest speaker and his talk will be on health problems. All parents are invited. day at straight time. Without condoning strikes in any way they are ugly, unnecessary, unneces-sary, and people get hurt in them it is probable that there ' will be flareups like the New Bedford ruckus, all through the war period. per-iod. Hot-heads will get control of local situations and they raise hob, but while these incendiary strikes do break out and make all the headlines, the machinery that stops strikes, and better still prevents them is working effectively, ef-fectively, too. You get that picture from another an-other report that of the United States Conciliation Service under Dr. John R. Steelman. .Take the same month of February. There were 314 Industrial disputes adjusted ad-justed and settled before the strike stage and therefore without with-out any stoppage of production. In addition, 92 strikes that had stopped production were settled by the service. Lew Than 1 Per Cent Lost . The foreeoinjr figures cover all industries, whether on war or civil ian production. When the figures are narrowed to war production, the picture looks like this, again for the month of February: There were in that month about 7.5 million workers on war production. pro-duction. Figuring 24 working days in that month, there were a potential 180 billion man days in employment. Out of that total in a reported 21 stoppages of work involving 14.800 employes, there were 33,800 man-days lost. The percentage of time lost is 181000 of 1 per cent less than 21100 or 150 of 1 per cent. Contrast that with February, 1941, when there were an estimated esti-mated 57 million man-days put in on national defense and strikes caused a loss of 378,000 man-days nearly 35 times as high a percentage per-centage as this year. As long as there is maintained this tendency to keep 'em working work-ing while labor disputes are being settled, this labor problem can be . licked. , . the Tables," by John Dickson Carr; "With This Ring," by Mig-non Mig-non Eberhart; "The Body in the Library," by Agatha Christie; "The G-String Murders," by Gypsy Gyp-sy Rose Lee; "Corpse and the Three Ex-Husbands," by Sue MacVeight; "Bamboo Blonde," by Dorothy B. Hughes; "Heads You Lose," by Christianna Brand; "Corpse in the Snowman," by. Nicholas Blake. REFUND CHECKS AKK1V K SPANISH FORK Approximately Approximate-ly $5000 was received by local paultrymen during the week as a result of a refund on storage eggs. The Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Co-operative association has paid out about $75,000 to poultry producers of the state. This money has been distributed on a pro-rata basis and has amounted to 47.1 cents per case of eggs which were placed in storage last spring to aid in a market stabilization program. Ride 'Em, Buddy 179 MINE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT SAN. FRANCISCO, April 4 (U.R) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Ap-peals toady had ordered directors of the Sunshine Mining company of Kellogg, Idaho, to show cause why they should not be adjudged in contempt of court for auegea violation of a 1937 National Labor Relations Board ruling. The court scheduled a hearing for May 18. The NLRB had ordered the firm to reinstate with back pay 23 employes em-ployes Involved In a strike and to recognize a CIO union, and to cease interference with union or ganization. rr- V ' - W If fl III Buddy Rogers, Mary Plckf onfs band - leading ; husband, w goes from the air waves to the air corps, volunteering as a , Navy flying instructor. In Los Angeles An-geles he passes depth perception test under watchful eye of Dr. .Oliver Eees. - I |