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Show Provo Voters to Pass On Water Bond Issue Plan Contlnned from race One) of Western States industry in the postwar era, it cannot become be-come greater than its water sup-Ply. sup-Ply. Mojrty experts point out that now is the best time to obtain money when the banks are bulging, when the market is cheap, then capital will let it out at almost any rate of interest to "keep it working. The history of money markets after an emergency period, has always run true to form: higher interest rates during the reconstruction recon-struction period. The revenue bond issue for $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 carries interest at 2Vi per cent per annum for the first two years. For the remaining 23, the rate drops; down to 1 per cent per annum. This compares very favorably with one issue of 6 per cent bonds the city has subscribed sub-scribed in the past. Aside from the fact that Provo Pro-vo clearly needs more water and an improved system for its growing population, postwar Jobs for many returning service men will be assured. Bear in mind the project is a self -liquidating one, and is in line with projects other cities in the country have adopted -in their postwar pro grams 1 WESTERN DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, Provo Tokyo Rose Gets Quick. Response For New Records SANTA ANA, Cal., Aug. 4 . (U.R) Tokyo Rose, the Japanese Japa-nese radio propagandist, knows the meaning of Amer ican service." Col. William C. ? Famum, chief of staff at the Santa Ana army air base, who- re-- re-- cently returned from the 7th air force in the Pacific, related re-lated today that Tokyo Rose complained on her broadcasts to American forces that her records were scratched and she needed new ones. A rotary club in the south, cooperated by purchasing the records, which were flown from the mainland to a B-29 base in the Marianas. Col. Famum was commander' of the army garrison forces on the island of Tinian and the records were placed aboard a Tokyo-bound superfort. The records were parachuted para-chuted -down on Tokyo. Col. Famum heard them on his radio the next day. NAMED OPA CHIEF SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 (U.R) Francis McCarty, San Francisco attorney, was today appointed chief OPA enforcement officer for rents and services in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada. Arizona, Ari-zona, and northern Idaho. He was formerly regional price commis- sioner There's welcome coolness in a , bottle of Fisher Beer. Enjoy it with meals . . . between meals at home ... on picnics . . . anywhere! You will like its finer flavor . . . its dean, crisp taste . . sparkling brilliance . . . zesty tang. This is because be-cause it is properly brewed and thoroughly, leisurely aged! THE BEVERAGE OF MODERATION AND GOOD CHEER Favored in the Intermountain Region Fisher Brewing Company Salt Lake City, Utah New Command Of Invasion Islands i U I" (Continued from rage One), cludina the 20th (Superfortress) air fnrr haseri in the Marianasl. At last; reports there Were at least six marine divisions m tne Rvukvun vflnd the Marianas, all highly trained veteran beachhead fighters forming a suincienuy powerful force to be classed as an armv. . Command Broadened Pqised in the Philippines, where Luzon istthe main staging base, are two Mother powerful armies whose veterans have fought "and defeated the Japanese from the Solomon islands to the Philippines. Philip-pines. . v They are Gen. Walter Krueger's 6th army, the first army -to be formed in the southeast Pacific, and Lt, Gen. Robert L. Eichelber-ger's Eichelber-ger's 8th army, which joirjed the 6th to wipe out the Japanese on Luzon. Massing swiftly to join these forces in the Pacific is Gen. Courtney 1 H. Hodges' huge 1st army, rabidly being redeployed from their conquests over the Germans fin Europe. Other forces may also be brought frbm Europe if the Japanese Jap-anese cling to their announced determination to fight to the bit ter enq. Military observers in Washington predict that in this case final victory over the Japanese Jap-anese cannot come until next spring at the earliest. The broadening of MacArthur's command to include the Ryukyus was seen a$ the first step in carrying car-rying out Anglo-American decisions decis-ions reached at Potsdam to speed an early conclusion of the Japanese Japan-ese war. ; It is . expected that the '- next move will be an extension of Admiral Ad-miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast Asia command to include in-clude the East Indies, now by passed in the drive on Japan but still under MacArthur's command. Taft. (Continued from Page One), controls early in 1946; removal of as many war production board controls ovef production aa pos sible; an immediate end to the drafting of more men into the armed services, and immediate reduction in the size of the army; removal of war manpow er commission controls over em ployment and enactment of a reconversion re-conversion tax bill to remove "choking" taxes from industry. Taft further recommended.: 1. A definite postwar policy for agriculture which would abolish the subsidy program. maintain parity prices, and assure as-sure a fair return to the farmer. 2. A "just program to assure industrial peace after the war." Taft emphasized that the social welfare program "should, place the initiative and operation in every case in the state and; local governments, so that these Activities Activ-ities are not federalized." ; Taft also said the public health bill, while it should extend federal fed-eral aid to build hospital?, expand ex-pand public: health services, and supply medical aid to low-income groups, should not be "based on socialized medicine or on arfy overall ov-erall compulsory insurance plan as propesed in the Murray?Wag-ner-Dingell bill." Public works, Taft said, should be based on a program "which will permit ; the government to proceed more rapidly when there is less private activity and less rapidly when times are prosperous." prosper-ous." ' But, he warned, only those public pub-lic works should be authorized which are "economically justifiable." justifi-able." Orem News OREM Mrs. Agnes Nelson was honored at a party in honor Jf her birthday anniversary Monday, July 30, at the home of her daughter, Mrs Allen Dickey'. The time was spent in social chat and a pot-luck lunch was served to the following friends: Mrs. Stella Duffin, Mrs. Charlotte Skinner, Mrs. Leona Twomey, Mrs. Ruth Petersen, Mrs Effie Millet, 'Mrs. Golda Mangum, Mrs. Mary Mc-Ewan, Mc-Ewan, Mrs. Birchet BrewerMrs. Marjorie Nelson, Virginia 'Nerdin and the guest of honor. The Sharon ward Relief Society social was held on the lawn at the Lucius Laudie home, Tuesday. July 31. President Fern Laudie was in charge v Mrs. Ethel Finch gave the lesson, which, was "Reverence "Rev-erence For the House of the Lord." A poem. "The Teacher's Prayer," was given by Mrs. Mae Reese, and Mrs. Irma Josie gave some humorous readings. Refreshments Re-freshments were served to a well attended group, Mrs. Woodrdw Dickey (Naomi Park) left for San Diego, Calif., to spend a couple of weeks with her husbandj Woodrow Dickey, S. 2-c U. S. N4 T.C., who is sta tioned at that place. i , USE . . FOR QUICK RELIEF From trie Discomforts of ATHLETE'S FOOT and ECZEMA SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! inns; Stilwell's Old Hat Turns Up OKINAWA, Aug. 4 (U.R) A battered old campaign hat that accompanied Gen. Joseph Jo-seph E. Stilwell for years in China, India and Burma was lost today and cost its GI finder a reprimand , for un-military un-military costume b efore "Vinegar Joe" got it back. The hat blew out the window win-dow of a cub plane while Stilwell was on an inspection flight. Hundreds of soldiers joined in a search for it after Stillwell offered a $25 reward. re-ward. Cpl. Ed P. Donohue found the hat in the surf on a north beach of this island. But when he tried on the soggy headgear to "see how I looked look-ed in a general's hat," Donohue Dono-hue was stopped and reprimanded repri-manded by a one-star general for his "unsoldierly appear ance. Veteran.Tenor Dies In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD. Aug, 4 (U.R) Fiske O'Hara, for 30 years a lyric tenor of stage, sreeen and radio, died yesterday at his home after an illness of a year. He was 67. Best known on the stage, OHara played a leading part in the light opera "Robin Hood and starred for years in plays he wrote himself. The veteran vaudeville star also appeared on the farm and home radio hour and in films with Janet Gaynor and Walter Baxter. He collaborated with Anne Nichols on "Abie's Irish Rose." Born in Rockland, Maine. March 11, 1878, O'Hara entered show busines when he was 18 years old. He became blind a year and a half ago. Bullet in Heart But Still Lives PARIS. 111., Aug. 4 (U.R) Doctors Doct-ors at a Paris hospital were puzzled puz-zled today over the case of 14-year-old Dale Barnett, Chrisman, 111., who should be seriously ill and who feels fine. Although a .32 caliber revolver bullet is lodged in his heart, Dale is not in a hospital bed. Physicians Physi-cians termed it a "miracle" that the wound is not serious. - He was accidentally shot late yesterday by his brother. Max Barnett, 17, who was engaged in shooting practice. ' GI University Opens In Florence THE REPLACEMENT AND TRAINING COMMAND, Italy War department plans which have been maturing for two years today to-day became a reality with the opening of the University study center at Florence, the first GI university overseas to operate on a full-time basis. With impressive dedication day exercises held on July 9, which were attended by military, diplomatic diplo-matic and educational dignitaries, troops awaiting redeployment to the United States . or other theaters of operations began or started to further their college education "until their ship comes in." CRASH PROBED FLORENCE, S. C. Aug. 4 (U.R) A board of officers today be gan investigation of the crash of ; two light bombers from the Florence Flor-ence army air base near Bennets-vill, Bennets-vill, S. C., that killed four airmen air-men yesterday. Need A. . L. Duckett The Complete One Stop SALES & SERVICE Corner Univ. Ave. & 3rd South PHONE 50S 'U' Boat Raft In Gulf of Mexico CAMP GORDON JOHNSON, Fla., Aug. 4 (U.R) Army intelligence intelli-gence officers today sought to un cover facts behind the appearance in the Gulf of Mexico of a German Ger-man submarine raft, well stocked with emergency rations including a bottle ox sennapps. Officials revealed that the1 raft was sighted on Sunday by an army boat returning from a fish ing cruise. The raft itself began to fall apart as it was towed to land, but its cargo was brought here. ' It was believed the raft had been afloat only for about six Lweeks. Inspection dates indicated that most of the material recovered recover-ed had been in Germany as late as Dec. 28, 1944. (The coast guard revealed this week that no German submarines had been reported in Florida Waters since July, 1943.) A possibility was advanced that the raft had been ashore and was subsequently carried back to sea by recent high tides. The raft was supplied with signal equipment, distress flag, .Uulu,uk;U hjuo.-u, nan - "iK gear, u laugue-eiiminauns drug and the bottle of schnapps. - Youths Lashed At Reformatory WILMINGTON. Der., Aug. 4 (U.R) Warden Elwood H. Wilson Wil-son of the Newcastle county workhouse today administered ten lashes each to three youths under a court sentence which commlted them to the institution for robbery. They were Francis Coston, 18, and Ernest C. Watons, 19, both sentenced to four years, and George Butler, 19, sentenced to three years. FINN LEADER DIES PALO ALTO, Cal.. Aua. 4 (U.R) Rudolf Holsti, former Finnish foreign . minister and professor of political science at Stanford uni versity, died last night following an unsuccessful operation. As Finnish delegate to the League ; of Nations, Holsti led a long fight to have the Russo-Finnish Russo-Finnish war submitted to the lea gue for arbitration, and was instrumental in-strumental in Russia's expulsion from the league prior to the 1940 peace treaty. He came to the United States two years ago. a..'.. 4- Idahoon Proposed For Ickes' Post NAMPA, Ida., Aug. 4 U.R Former Idaho Senator D. Worth Clark may be offered the post of secretary of interior succeeding Harold Ickes, the Idaho Free Press today said it had been informed by a reliable source. The paper said Clark was push- led for the post by a group of west- ern senators at a meeting in Washington few days ago.- Truman Tru-man and Clark are Said to be intimate friends. Clark was defeated de-feated for the democratic re-nomination re-nomination as U. S. senator in the primaries a year ago. Since the first of the year, Clark, an attorney, has been associated as-sociated with Tom Corcoran, former intimate of President Roosevelt. f Jailed Newsmen Gain Freedom AUSTIN. Tex., Aug. 4 (U.R) The publisher, and two staff members of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, sentenced to three-daj three-daj jail terms for contempt of nrturt WArA fru tAav Art urrlte 1 of habeas corpus. tk. i.tnn L-..n night Dy judge F. L. Hawkins of ' a 1 m a . m ' m tne xexas coun oi appeals alter jail sentences had been imposed earner in the day on Ciller-Times Ciller-Times Publisher Conway Craig, his managing editor. Bob Mc-Cracken Mc-Cracken and Tom Mulvany, a reporter. re-porter. Hawkins set bonds for the three at $250 and scheduled a hearing hear-ing on their appeal from County Judge Joe Browning's sentence for Oct. 10. Judge Browning pronounced sentence at a hearing yesterday in which the three failed to appear ap-pear to answer "Contempt citations cita-tions based on published reports of a trial before Browning last Mav. They were cited for news stories nd editorial comment concerning a forcible entry and detainer case in which Joe L. Mayes, a serviceman, was ousted from his civilian business place by Landlord Bush M. Jackson. CITY QUARANTINED TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4 (U.R) The city commission, in a special meeting, ordered the city quarantined quar-antined for all children 16 years old and under today as the result of an outbreak of infantile paralysis par-alysis which has killed eight persons per-sons and stricken 45 others in recent weeks. 0 There will be two ballots at the Special Election on Tuesday, Tues-day, August 7, 1945. One for each registered voter, and one for registered voters having paid a property tax during the past year. In order to assist the Judges of Election, the registered voters names have been checked with the Utah County Tax Rolls. However in checking the names, it was found that the name on the registers in many cases were not the same as appeared on the Tax Rolls; and in many cases the wife appears ap-pears on the registers as Mrs. (giving the husband's name). Therefore all these names could not be checked as a tax payer. pay-er. To assure all registered voters who have paid a property tax during the past year the Tight to vote, it is suggested that their last paid tax receipt be taken to show the judges of election. Vote at the following From 7 a. mtil 8 p.iTL Prednct Number WARD NO. 1 Voting Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 13 and 14. Voting Place Minerva Karren, 355 South Third East. , Precinct Number WARD NO. 2 Voting Districts Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. Voting Place Ruth Vincent, Vin-cent, 777 West Second South. Precinct Number WARD NO. 5 Voting Districts Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, and 12.' Voting Place Louise Palmer, 429 East Sixth North. British Wipe Out Japanese In Burma CALCUTTA. Aug. 4 !U.fi British troops in Burma have wiped out Japanese positions along the vital Pegu-Martaban rail line near Abya and inflicted heavy casualties on a trapped unit near Nyaung-Lebin, a southeast Asia command communique said today. Doomed remnants of the Japanese Japa-nese 28th Imperial army have been reported digging trenches for suicidal stands west of the Sittang. Active patrolling against these isolated pockets has continued con-tinued despite torrential monsoon trains. (The Tokyo radio, recorded by United., Press in San Francisco, complained yesterday that allied forces in Burma had been foiled in their attempts to carry out frontal attacks on Japanese positions" pos-itions" and were "resorting to guerrilla warfare.") : Today's communique said that 50 Japanese, building rafts in an attempt to cross the rain-swollen Sittang. had been attacked by Indian troops north of Pegu ot the west bank of the river. On the Mawchi road east of the Sittang Japanese artillery shelled British positions 28 miles east of ToungoO- DENIES RIFT COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 4 (UJ Film actress Carole Landis today denied reports of a rift between her and W. Horace Schmidlapp, young New York producer from Cincinnati, O. PROVO GREENHOUSE Phone 80 Where the Flowers Grow M of- CTY places Precinct Number -r- WARD NO. 3 . Voting Districts Nos. 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31.. Voting Place Vida Swenson, 614 West Fourth North. Precinct Number WARD NO. 4 Voting Districts Nos. 4, 7, 10, 11, 24, and 25. Voting Plice Mary Pratt, 345 North Second East. I. G. BENCH, . Provo City Recorder. CIO Head Seeks i Mayor's Office .V DETROIT, Aug. 4 (U.R) The powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations called for a final hour - door - knocking campaign tonight to nominate CIO Leader Richard T. Frankensteen for may or Tuesday in the .union's first overt effort to control a major public office. Buoyed to confidence by labor's emergence in the British elec tions, CIO spokesmen said they expect "the strong voice of work-ingmen" work-ingmen" to be revealed in the primary pri-mary ballot on Frankensteen' candidacy. As an international vice presi dent of the United Automobile Workers and a high labor policymaker, policy-maker, Frankensteen is the first CIO official to stand in a major election. He judiciously selected the CIO's world stronghold for a test. The union's 400,000 active members mem-bers easily could control the government gov-ernment of the nation's fourth largest city if they voted and voted uniformly. COAL SHIPMENTS TO ARGENTINA STOPPED BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 4 (U.R): Announcement by U. S. Secretary: of Interior Harold Ickes that' iUnited States shipments of coal to; neutral countries, including Argentina, Ar-gentina, will be suspended, caused; pessimism here today. Argentina already is facing a.' severe fuel shortage and if' United States coal shipments are, completely shut of now the effect will be serious. WHOSE ANNIVERSARY Whose birthday? Whose homecoming? home-coming? Whose wedding? Whatever What-ever the occasion, it's best remembered remem-bered with flowers, for flowers alone can richly express the thoughtfulness and the tenderness with which you remember that day. ,,a |