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Show -Hot Time-in Washinaton The Weather i V: Y - 5 X" ' . is Picture of a senator trying to cool off. - Firstthe electric fan. Ah, that's betterbut cot enough better. Senator Allen Ellender of ' Louisiana apparently needs a bit of interior cooling, too. c . - . - ir 0 ' . - - MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National j- , Affairs ' By DREW TEAIlSbN and ROBERT S. ALLEN Garner Also Had Private Talk rWith Kinff ; Asked About War Armaments; George VI " Thinks , Whole World Will GoBroke if War - Spending Goes On; Dr. Townsend Trying To Avoid Senate Record Vote After House Defeat; Loophole Eliminates Many from New Social Security Pensions in mm ;..:;.. . N ' , , WASHINGTON One fact regarding re-garding thA British royal visit in Washington which did not get out was that jang George had a prl-vate prl-vate talk jvith Vice President Garner Gar-ner as well as withthe president. Roosevelt's chat was late at Vight after the White House tate dinner and mifsicale. Garner's took place over coffee and cigars between the dinner and the musical musi-cal program in the East room. . ' With his characteristic breezy informality, "Cactus Jack" asked the King the question that is on 'eveiybody'a tongue! " 'Is - thee going to be war in Europe?' The reply was equally frank. "! "I don't ; know, Mr. Vice President," Presi-dent," theKing said, "it depends oh a number of situations, any one of N which might lead to developments develop-ments of the gravest consequences. Europe is a veritable powder keg that may explode any moment and - "Won't your country go broke if it keeps on spending for armaments?" arma-ments?" asked Garner. ."It isn't a question of my country coun-try alone' responded the King. "It seems to me that the whole world will go bankrupt Jt - -this gigantic armament race continues. Of course England cant keep, up the pace it. is "going and neither can the other nations of the world. 20-30 Convention To Wit in S. L T Preparations , to scncl a large delegation Nfrpm the 20-30 club to the semi-annual convention in Salt Lake City, Saturday night and Sunday were made at the meeting held Thursday night At the River-pjde River-pjde cafe, with President George Shaw in, charge, V, Guest speaker was -E. R. Ras-rhuson, Ras-rhuson, Herald editor, who gave a talk ' on "Newspapers and Advertising." Adver-tising." V Leonard- Cockrell and Ted May-nard May-nard were appointed, official dele-.gates dele-.gates to the convention by President Pres-ident Shaw. - The club accepted an invitation to visit the lleraldof fice and plant at some future date. , Walter Adams, Provo, official at the ' Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company, will speak Sunday at the semi-annual convention of the intermountain district 2030 clubs at Salt Lake City, , His subject will be "Our Jobof Preserving Democracy In Amer- lca- ' Also a main speaker will be M. ADbeStjkunk, San Antonio, Tex.. national 20-20 president who will deliver an address on aims and activities of 20-30 clubs. i; The convention officially wrill open Saturday noon when members mem-bers of; Provo, Salt Lake, Ogden, and Pocatello, Idaho clubs gather at Newhoiise hotel. ,. $ Sunday afternoon delegates" will meet to elect district officers. Wil-lard Wil-lard P. iMintun, Provo, now deputy district- governor, likely : will be made governor. s r-; r-; Clarence J. Vacher, former Pro-voan Pro-voan and active member of the local club who now.lives In Ogden, will conduct the convention. V : ROOSEVELT AGREES WASIIINGTONJune 16 LR- ; Iresident Roosevelt today saldhe , agreed with objectives or tne 1 Hatch bill - to ban political relief but felt its language should ; be clarified. . ' - VERNAL-HOST TO LIONS OF UTAH, IDAHO Provo Club Represented By Delegation of 10 Members i . ' . ' VERNAL, Utah, June 16 U.R) More than 1,000 Lions club members from Utah and Idaho gathered here today for a two-day district convention con-vention of Lions International.. Internation-al.. ; " . Dr. Wallace F- Dexter of Sacramento, Cal., president of Lions International will attend. The race for district governor of Utah seemed confined to three men: James M. Sargent of Pan-gultch, Pan-gultch, Alf L. Freeman of Brig-ham Brig-ham City and J. L. Hiatt, Heber. Only nominations for district governor made were In behalf of Mr. Hiatt, , Mr. Freeman, for the Utah post; Floyd Johnson, Rigby, and p. H. Kelly, Boise, for the Idaho governorship. Pocatello . submitted an invlta-tl9a. invlta-tl9a. fps tbt;sl9ift41s.trlct;..cpii..: ventlon, the only one to be received re-ceived at the opening session. The convention got under way bright and early this morning With a colorful parade, each club delegation trying to outdo its rival with distinctive uniforms, bands, banners, and pennants. Three feandsjjivened up the occasion, oc-casion, the Boxelder and Uinta high school bands and the Rich field drum and bugle corps. Dr. John H. Clark, president of the Vernal club, called the opening open-ing meeting to order at 9 a. m. in the high school auditorium. Following Fol-lowing a brief address of welcome rhe"t"urned the gavel over to Dis- inci uovernor jonn J. Kicineign (Continued on Page Eighty TIW KILLED !fl VERNAL CRASH VERNAL, Utah, JufieL6(U.EW Two Civilian Conservation corps, youths were killed and two Seriously Seri-ously injured near here yesterday when a truck in which they were riding plunged off the highway, plowed through a fence and over turned several times. " x The dead were Leonard Spencer, 18, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and EUis Bergman, 19, of M uncle, Indiana. The accident sent Utah's traffic fatality total for 1939 to 62 as-compared as-compared withrBS for the same period in 1938 . ; Jerome Broxtori, 18, of Cincinnati Cincin-nati suffered internal injuries and brain concussion and James Adams, 19, also of Cincinnati, was severely cut and bruised in the j accident. They were reported m4 "fair" condition at the Valley hos pital. Bergman's leg was crushed under un-der the car. He died after-an emergency operation had been 1 performed to amputate the leg. 1. j j e- Famous Roth Quartet. To Play Three Concerts Indicative , of the popularity of ' the Roth string quartet which will present a chamber music festival at Brigham. Young university next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday is a portion of vtheir schedule following fol-lowing their Provo visft. .'At Columbia university they will play a series of six programs from 'the Chamber Music5 ooclety, and at; Princeton they will present a ChamberfMusic-festlval similar to one completed by them at that scnooi iwo weens agQ,nexi season sea-son the quarter will have a repeat engagement Jn; theLIbrary; of Congress Chamber music series, for. which they have already, play ( r In-V ' O' ! i A ij FIFTY-THIRD YEAR,. N0. ft Japanese Kill A . . . m i lent sm nemp n Blockaded British Authorities Appeal For Food To Commanders of English War-ships; War-ships; Japs Tighten Restrictions Bulletin: TIENTSI June 16 (U.R)--.Authorities of the blockaded, British concession have appealed to commanders .'of British warships to get food to them, the Japanese Domei News Agency reported today. - r In .asking British warships to move food into the concession con-cession from- Chingwangtao and Weihaiwei, authorities said the. food would be regarded as military supplies and would be distributed throughout the concession. - By CHARLES GABB United Press Correspondent x- , TIENTSIN, China, June 16 U.R) -Two Chinese farmers were shot dead by Japanese sentries today as they sought to run the blockade of the British and French concessions with, vegetable supplies. Japanese restrictions tightened r ' and the French concession wasj completely isolated except on the side adjoining the Brmsir area. , , ,'An acute- food shortage threat ened :the concessions.- Already, TIENTSIN -Japanese, tighten ing blockade to starve out British concession, , shoot .two farmers trying to smuggle vegetables past guards.' .,. "v TOKYO caomet's "ibig live- considers course ; reported to have reiected'Britlsh proposals for end ing blockade. - :L LONDON Britain considers discriminatory-measures against Japanese exports In reprisal. WASHINGTONrXJnlted : States expected to join Britain and France in protests to Japan; commerce com-merce department reports Japan has shipped almost $400,000,000 In gold to United; States since war started, depleting her gold stock to probably not more than $100, 000,000. j markets were almost-denuded of food except or cold-storage meats.. V 100,000 To Feed The British and French had large stores of flour and rice in riverside warehouses, but there were more than 100,000 persons to feed In the' concessions and there was no telling how long the block ade would last. . ' Ironically, the presence of the rice and flour in the warehouses proved a boomerang for the Japanese, Jap-anese, because prices in the city (Continued on. Page Eight) $25,000 STOLEN P FROM . AUTOMOBILE - REDWOOD CITY, Cal.,-June 16 HR) Mrs. William R. Holmes of Cupertino, today ! reported $25,00& ; in new currency ; was stolen from her automobile while it was parked for : a few minutes in front of the San Francisco municipal airport. DEATH HELD SUICIDE HACKENSACK, N. J.( June 16 The torchdeath of Hagazoon Harsarjian, 73-year-old Armenian whose bound and burned body was found near a picnic park Wednesday, Wednes-day, was listed today by authorities authori-ties as a -( bizarre 'suicide. ed a numberuf- times in ? previous years.. v V - m In ten years of , playing America, Am-erica, , the Hungarian born - Both quartet has played before ore than fifty college audiences; and has proved highly ; popular with all. ,v Two years ago, the group was presented in concert . here by the s Brigham Young university lyceum committee. At that time, It s proved one of the best liked numbers ; of a notable .- season.. It was at Oxford university that the quartet - played : its ? 600th concert recently.. '": ' : ;-v " .- ;: '" ' ; . .The.-quartet is said to be "four instruments, playing as one.' 242 ggglgn ggvgS PROVO, UTAH Two ng to Irfloc&uae ovrnno! fflrt avrl IJUI&UlJul . U Ll U lU Ddvs; Froo: Prciuo n '- mm ' m k ml" r ' ' v , CAMP W. G. WILLIAMS Officers and men of the . 145th field artiUery, Utah naUonal guard, opened their annual two-, week field training period here Friday, the day's activities consisting con-sisting chiefly of preparing- he, camp. The battery arid medical detachment arrived from" Provo about 10 o'clock this morning in their trucks. N JThe regiment included sections from Provo, Ogden, Lbgan,5Salt Lake City, Nephi, Bountiful and Manti. x From Provo vicinity the following fol-lowing arrived: Captain Thorit C. Hebertson, First Lieutenant Clarence H. Harmon, Second Lieutenants Ralph W. Morgan and Sterling J. Strate; First Sergeant Ser-geant Leland S. Madsen, Sergeants Ser-geants Milton Bellows, Lowell Blgelow, Paul V.. Duke, William W. Garrett, Stephen D. Glasscock Glass-cock and Tippet, .K. Johnson. Corporals Donald. N. ' Christen-sen, Christen-sen, . Ralph O. Handley,- Alma Hansen, Preston Madsen, Albert Nielson, Shirl v A. Taylor; Privates Pri-vates first class. Quentln C. Beatty, Charles W. . Dahlquist, Clarence t Ferre, Delane Garrett, Herbert P. Keele, Jams A. Mit-cheU, Mit-cheU, Lowell S. MlUer, Charles B. Van Wagenen, Don WoodV . Privates Lester G. Bafcer, Ray. mond A. Brittaln, Leland Rl Car- (Contlnued on Page Eight) Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit .X'-rrm . 102 500 000-3 8 Boston .012 000 400 7 Benton, Wjalkup (7) and Teb-betts; Teb-betts; Auker, Weaver (8),v Hev Ing (9) and Peacock. , V Cleveland .....100 010 010 3 New York 020 020 OOx 4 Mllner, Eisenstat-and Hemsley. Donald and -Dickey. StLouis . . . . ) .070 000 10210 Philadelphia ... ".203 000 303--H WhiteheadGUl v(8) andSpindel. Ross, Beekman, (2) and -Hayes. Chicago ....... .000 -100 y Washington 400 000 . ", Frasler, Marcura . (1) and Rensa ; Kelley and Guiliana. . .r ' NATIONAL LEAGUE ? Boston . ..'.. .100 001 000 -' 2 Pittsburgh .... ,300 001 OOx 4 Posedel, Sullivan s (7 and Lopez. Kllnger, Broun (9) and Berres. New York .......301 02. ' ' Chicago .........001 00 Schumacher; . Russo (8) ahdDan-ning;4 ahdDan-ning;4 Passeau and' Hartnett." Brooklyn . . 100 , - St." Louis .'. .00 ' c -. Mungo and Phelps; -Warneke arid Padgett.- rr.-rv An 3 v o v. ? Harrington's Plea. For . No ; Earmarking . Is Rejected . WASHINGTON, June 16 U.RhThe house today upheld the action , of its appropriations appropri-ations committee in earmarking earmark-ing $125,000,000 ... of relief funds f or use by s the Public Works Administration; ; 'It rejected, 194 to. 84, an amendment by Rep. Charles H. Leavy, D.; Wash.; to strike out the earmarking language and give the works projects administration all .of the $1,477,000,000 President Roosevelt asked for V its use in 1940. - ' -juarrihgton Opposes . "The earmarking was onebf the nrovisions objected to by Col. F. G.3 Harrington, WPA administrator administrat-or He said it would cut-the number num-ber of available jobs - by, 170,000 ret year.- ; . : v, Majority Leader Sam, Rayburn, Rep. . Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va.; .contended that the amendment amend-ment "would -help provide more jobs, since ; the same number of workers would be employed under either agency; and WPA construe tion is raore costly than private construction! ' .."is. "I hope,".' pleaded Woodrum, "that the house . win stand by us in our, attempt to give jobs. I've heard nothing, but talks ; of projects, proj-ects, projects, projects. Tve 'heard members say the WPA. Is wonderful wonder-ful because it has . provided so many fine projects In their f districts. dis-tricts. What- we're trying, to do is to provide jobs." V The house . adopted an amendment amend-ment making possible an increase In WPA expenditures for non-labor non-labor costs from $6 toa$7 per .worker per month. Officers Attend Ogden Convention l Several Utah county officers are attending the seventeenth annual an-nual two-day. State Peace Officers:; Of-ficers:; association '. convention, which' .opened in Ogden today. V . ' They . include -Sheriff. John S. Evans, 'Deputies J. J. Mercer and Lloyd ' Powell, v Chief of " Police Henry -East , of Provo, -and the following 'Provo": officers: ,0. E. Pedersen, Wesley : Roljcy, Arnel S. Mllner, Earl Finlayson ' and Ed JIU'O'Brien. -: X- . Others planning to - attend in-cludev in-cludev District Attorney - William Stanley .j Dunford and - County Attorney i Arnold - Roylance. v : Calif orniari Gives i til iiii Mi EIM ACoiONOP -CorjiLiinEE' IS UPHELD JScliolarsIupJ to Enroll at B.iYi U; That even a. scholarship to Leland Le-land : Stanford university is sometimes some-times leiss attractive ; than the prospect v of attending Brigham Young university was : shown this week when Ted Johnson 'of Menlo Park, California, registered at . B. Y. TJ. for the summer session-Mr. session-Mr. Johnson relinquished an attractive at-tractive scholarship at Stanford in order to enter the Provo university, uni-versity, . according to -Dr. Sidney B. Sperry, Professor of Religious education, who aided him In selecting se-lecting his course of study. The new student, is a junior, having attended Melo Junior College at Melo ' Park : for f two years, j He wast graduated from San Rafael high school in California. 5 ;; ' Joining the L. D. S. church o Thursday, June 8, less than a week - before he came to " Provo, was. one of the reasons for the new student's enrolling at B.Y.U. v. -Vi V-, - COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1939 PRIOR FIVE CENT' " Was That Presidential Bee v Buzzing Around Hyde Park? , 1 Si ' -A 'S.. L , .x AA', " '- ' 1 AX' ; " X - .v i 1 v : , L f J : "j : J V : - ' - " ( ' - That black patch over the eye of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr indicates indi-cates the only casualty a bee sting sustained' by anyone at the .now-famous "hot dog picnic" in Hyde Park for King George j and Queen Elizabeth.;; The President's son is pictured with Polly Pea- jbody, jprominent young Bocialite. in a New York night. club. . Flag:pqy: Jdere , Program for the annual Flag day service, sponsored by the ProvpLdde 849,3 O. Elks, to be held at 8p."m: Sunday at Pioneer park, in connection with the' Sunday evening eve-ning band concert, was anriounced' today. ; . v The service will be as follows: Russia Discussed t Dpfdre nolariahs Observations during his recent visit to Russia were outlined before be-fore Provo Rotariahs today by Major Fred Cr Frey, dean of the school of arts and sciences. University Uni-versity of Louisiana, who Is a member of the B. Y.- tj" summer school faculty. . - .; Music at the luncheon was furnished fur-nished by Mrs., Dearwyn Sardoni Sundwall, accompanied by ; her mother. Visitors , included M. Ferguson, new manager of the Personal Finance company here; ; Charles Wright, ' former, Provo "builder; John F. Jones and Isaac McQueen, Price Rotarians; J. H. and Robert Moore, Billings, Mont.; and Dr. T. Earl Pardoe- and ' Denzll : A-Brown A-Brown of Provo. - Jlajor Frey said he was surpris-ed.to surpris-ed.to find ncr communism in Russia, Rus-sia, a nation supposed to be a hot bed of communistic . views. " He. noted that education in Russia Rus-sia Is compulsory for at. least 10 years,. and . that higher - education is placed on a selective basis, with students being forced to ; meet high - educational requirements. 0- Up Stanford .'All:my life; I have wanted to be a Mormon"' Mr. Joimson said "and It was ' a thrill . when I was finally baptized by the, bishop of the L. D- S. ward at - Palo . Alto; California." . ; - '.--; ; - ; , Although he has not definitely selected his major study, Mr Johnson John-son is taking work in bacteriology and geology . during the "summer. He also j will : attend the Alpine summer term at : . Aspen . Grove, and intends to continue at B.Y.U-until B.Y.U-until graduation. . ' : , ? The California student is 'residing 'resid-ing at Allen Kali; B.Y.U, dormitory dormi-tory for. men. - . ''After-:, graduation from-, the church university, it is my hop to go on a mission If I am qualified," Mr Johnson stated.; " : At Menlo junior college he had as ; his English instructor, -Jr. Harlen W. Adams, formerly . ; of Provo. -v ; - :. 'Exercises':-:. dunaay-. lyignz , Ill - ' iS ; Music, ''Star Spangled Banner" by the band ; intrpduptory exercises.' exer-cises.' Exalted Ruler Roy M Sor-enson Sor-enson and officers; prayer, Chaplain Chap-lain George Ruff ; history of the fleg, presented by - Provo. girl scouts Miss Irma Acord, . reader; muslc,tAmerlca";by audience and band; closing remarks. Exalted Ruler. ' The band concert, to be played before and after the Elks lodge services, will be as follows: Choral, "Heut Trimphiret Gottes Sohn" by Bach-McConathy et al; march, "Salute to Sterling" by Richards suite "Atlantis' by , aafranek; march "North Iowa Band Festival" by Berryman; overture "The Admiral", by vRus-sell; vRus-sell; saxophone solo "The "Sax. Queen" by Chenette, Miss Ruth Mitchell; selection "Princes Tip-Toe" Tip-Toe" by LeRoy-Roberts; march '"Them Basses" by Huff toe ; and "America the Beautiful' by Ward-Yoder. Ward-Yoder. . . . . The public is invited . to attend and participate. In the observance. observ-ance. 1 Drunken Driver 81C9 s . John Angus, of "Provo, arrested by Police Captain Albert HaUa-day HaUa-day .; Thursday :; night, ' forfeited $100 bail bond when he failed to appear in city ' court Friday - to face charges of drunken driving. According to ' Officer Ren - L." Thompson, ; Angus " was arrested after his . car had , run "into - another; an-other; machine on city 'streets. -j-'- - . - , v - e ' - -. - ' ' This Day . . . t . BORN" . , ":. : ' - . r Girl, - to . Charles M. and Lois Penrod Hackley, Thursday night. Crane rnatemity.- - . ; ; GirLv: to Moyle and LaRue Fad- dis Knudsen.' at the home. 233 East Fourth North : ; 7 . "LICENSED TO MARRY J. George Stratton - Jr., , 20, Orem, and Ruth Farn worth, 17, Orem. ;",- .; ' ; ' ,' William , Reed ' Swenson, 22, Spanish Fork, and Anna Kathryn Ellett. 22, Mapleton. 7- ;' John LeGrande Bigler, 22, In-dianola, In-dianola, and Norma Lomt-ardi, 17, Thistle. , William ' Weston Garrett, - 22, Provo, and Verna Mae Wing, 19, Sprlngville. V UTAH: Partly cloudy toru;!.i and Saturday; warmer &outhe,. .t portion tonight. . Max. temp., Thursday . . A SI . Mln. temp, Thursday 43 -s -; SMALL; HOP P f i; ANY OFEREU Third Major. Submarine Disaster Recorded ; In A Month PARIS, June 16 (U.R) The French "submarine Phenix, with t30 or, more men aboard, has: gone down -off Saigon, French-Indo China, the ministry min-istry of marine announced tonight. to-night. - . . - : - ' Authorities abandoned all hope of saving any of the crew, normally 67,-the, submarine having, hav-ing, been, under water for more than SO hours." 4 Relatives of the men aboard were notified , of . their probable loss. . ... The ministry, of marine, issuirg the original announcement shortly before 7:30 p. nu asked the newspaper news-paper not to publish the news before be-fore 10 p. m so that all relatives Of the crew, could te notified first. -. , The Phenix- was :on detached service, cruising off the Indo-Chinese Indo-Chinese coast, in shark-infested waters. J t ' ' . No details had yet been received receiv-ed on the cause or the accident. The submarine is one of the larger 'types ; of submersibles, of 11 9 tons and S02 feet long. It was not believed any escape equipment' was- aboard, not even Davis or Momseh "lungs." ' Third Disaster This was the third major submarine sub-marine 'disaster in less .than a, month,.the others having.been the Unite'd States submarine Squalus off - Portsmouth, N.r IL,. ion Hay 23 and -the British TheUs in the Irish sea near Liverpool, on June The Davis - lung ' enabled four men to escape from the Thetis.bob-bing Thetis.bob-bing to the surf ace from art escape es-cape hatcKrThe,. Phenix, built in 19a0, has I no: ', escape hatch. Total of 183; Perish ; ; ; On the; Thetis, 99 men were lost and only; four saved. , By , the use of a 'special - diving bell, . tive United 'States navy were aile to save 33ljtlen from the - Squalus, although 26 were ' lost; r - The Phenix disaster brings the total ;of .life In the three disasters to approximately 1S5. . Only ;48i hours ago, Cesar Cam-pinchi, Cam-pinchi, -navy' minister. Informed the naval committee of the chamber cham-ber of deputies that he is seeking to buy four "diving bells from the United gtates, to avert such " di3-asters. di3-asters. . - :;.-;.; r;?: . The exact 'number of men on the - Phenix Vwas ; not ; ' off iciall y given :The . number, was placed at 60, although there 'was. a report (Continued on Pi.tfe Eicht) Bus Service to Lake .View -Starts ' " i -' NLocal Rapid Transit bus service serv-ice was"' extended to Lake View today, with the inauguration of a new : trial, schedule, with four trips each': way. daily. The buses will -stop it. anywhere along the route Oirough Lake View where-ever where-ever passengers "indicate, according accord-ing to i C. H-' McFarland, manager. man-ager. A SO-day trial is. scheduled to determine the extent of the patronage- to be secured from Lake View. If business justifies, the route may be extended later. AUNT HET nV ' KOBtKT QLILLEX "I w ish Axny would karri that fat fehows worse ti"n yen try- to hide it. Sim bnys ei'cry dress too small, thinkln' It will hold her in, and she always looks like she was ahcut to bust out of it. i;Vjj ; " iV- :M h'j ' ' :(, |