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Show : Tl:c Weather UTAH; Fair tonight and ed-r.lzy. ed-r.lzy. Utile change In temperature. tempera-ture. Max.. temp., Monday Mln. tfinp, .Monday ......... .53' r ... I'' V u' i'N X-"" I. )(rL! If Jr. d- rr-i n t h 3 mtr f 1 -r piimtptly. This Herat I of.". I '-fort 7 I, in. vri :.sy, i 10 a. hi. Sni.i.i t imd a c-vy . f .'" .' Ui rt-l t 3' is. 1 ! i COMPLETIl U NTT FID VFU:x PPTPP HTr TP'-'lv FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 83 UTAH'S- ONLY DAIL.T EOUTU OF SALT IAK! PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939 . r In! in ; Li. U V , ; Li LijJUULJZlV. ( f ontiMii BIIL'SEKTTO- flFEREHCE' BY 237-1 7G House Approves Rule To Close Debate On Arms Bill WASHINGTON, Ooc. 31 (U.PJ The administration today to-day won the opening engagement engage-ment of the house neutrality fight when the chamber approved ap-proved a rule to send the measure to conference with the senate. The house ordered the bill sent to coherence by a voice vote after an initial test of strength on a motion by Rep. Hamilton Fish, R.. X. Y., to close debate on the rule under which the measure was sent to conference. , The administration won the vote to close debate 237 to 176. Wins IlaltJal Tet The vote provided an Initial test of administration strength In the closely divided house. However, How-ever, it was not regarded "as conclusive;' con-clusive;' i . The decisive test will come when the house votes later on the question ques-tion of instructing Its conferees to insist on retention of the present pres-ent arms shipments to belligerents. . The failure of the house to take a record vote on the approval of t h e ruj ejferi d : n theb i 1 lto con- ference came as a surprise. Immediately after the initial test on closing debate on the rule ' the question of passage of the rule was placed before the house. Flshthen asked for a roll- call but was unable to win suf- (Contlnued cm Page Three) V MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALUEN FDR sees Embargo ? Issue Changed Since Ethiopian ' Crisis Started it; Argues For In eu trail ty JJill as Avoiding War, Not Aiding Aggressor; Expects Hitler to-Undermine U. S. Trade If Germany Defeats Allies; War Jitters Puts Debutantes Debu-tantes in Rush for Fancy Coming-Out Parties. WASHINGTON' So far as the public can tell, the President has assiduously kept out of, the neutrality neu-trality debate since his message to Congress last month. But privately pri-vately he .has been doing plenty of talkingVPartlcular!y to critical criti-cal Congressmen. . Illustrative or the arguments he Is using to win the vote3 badly needed to-' put embargo repeal through the House was hi3 heart-to-htrt chat with James F. O'Connor, O'-Connor, "vrKite-haired. earnest Montana Representative. The two men are old friends ana"-Roose-velt opened the conversation on a personal note. v - ' - - "I hear you are against me, Jim," he said, "and that's kind of tough to take from an old friend like you. We've usually pulled vogether in the past and I need your supportTlmore than ever "Matter act, Mr. President," aid ..O'Connor, smiling, "if you hadn't Tailed me here, I would be blasting away atyour-bill this .ery minute. I had a special order to speak today,, but canceled it when I got yourphone "call. "I appreciate that, Jim," replied re-plied Roosevelt .warmly. "Now tell me what you've got against our bill. I know I don't have to tell you that I am just as determined determ-ined to keep the country out of war as you are." "I know that, Mr. President, but 'ray chief objection to-the bill, is that we would be going against $.n airtight embargo policy laid down by Congress in 1933 and re affirmed in 1933 and '37. -To change that policy, now that war has broken out, seems to me un; neutral The fact that Germany! (Continued on Page 4, Sec 2) 3t rat Record Couple Wed T t: ' f V i ! A ,v. '4 t r i L si lliness cheated Mr. and Mrs. George M. Goben, both 93, of trip to New York and Was-nington awarded them as winners of a nationwide nation-wide movie -survey to find longest married tAmeican couple. ' Wed 78 years, the Gobens will receive cash instead and & special showing show-ing of a motion picture in their Lucas, Iowa, home. , . ' , Win n is Ru Returns, BY FREDERICK PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 31 (U.R) Winnie Ruth Judd slept in the grip of sedatives at the Arizona insane asylum, where she surrendered after nearly a week of. chaotic freedom, while authorities tried vainly today to discover exactly where she had spent ' her freedom. - . Sr : r: - . .", - , , . . .They were unable to oDtain a coherent account 01 ner wanaer-ings wanaer-ings from the mad murderess; who banged on the hospital door last night; shoeless, carrying a satchel of - food scraps, and flying Into a rage when- questioning was attemoted. . When she . was ushered with ceremony into the office or ur. Louis Saxe; hospital superintendent, superintend-ent, she blurted: T told you I'd come back," then launched into a rambling tale of her wanderings. Roams X'ornlield . v Dr. Saxe later was informed by Sheriff Lon Jordan that his deputies depu-ties had learned she spent most of the six days since she left the hospital roaming: in a cornfield and an orange grove near the institution.. in-stitution.. But when he attempted " to reconcile her rambling chatter with the two-gun sheriffs finding, Dr. Saxe was met by ' a barrage of pencils and paper weights from his desk. Finally Winnie Ruth collapsed in. a chair, rubbed .her ankle which she had sprained, and guessed she had spent one night in the vacant half of a duplex apartment. Her ankle was braced with a bandage made from ner girdle. When Dr. Saxe, aided by Gov. Robert T. Jones and the sheriff-all sheriff-all in their most soothing man ners tried to persuade Winnie Ruth to confirm the story of : a Temps minister that she had given him "the worst night in his. life" she screamed defiance. Terrorizes Pius tor The pastor unnamed by offi cials aki vitrs., Judd came to his door, nine milrea from Phoenix, Sunday night and brandished a knife. She demanded he and his wife help her flee. "I tried to get. away from her and phone the , sheriff's office," the minister related, "She wouldn't let either my wife or myself leave the room. She would not eat. She wouldn't sleep, either.' She just sat there and glared at us with (Continued on Page Three) -0- Thanksqivinq Day,x Proclaimed WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 TU.R) President Roosevelt today to-day proclaimed Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving day and called" upon the people to give thanks that. the United States is at peace with all countries in a world of turmoil. r The proclamation fixed Thanksgiving for . the third Thursday of November, one week earlier than the traditional fourth Thursday on which the holiday has been celebrated in recent years. aomi 78 Years "' '. 1; ta to Asylum C. OT1IA1AN Joyces Danqcel I To Satirise on Looai J Drama, : songs, skits, motion pictures, surprises,. an abundance of witticisms, and good-natured panning of Provo bigwigs are in store v lor , those who attend the junior chamber , of- commerce's first annual Press-Radio Roast, or gridiron banquet, ' scheduled Wednesday at 7:30 p. m., In the First ward "hall. : : - d "Led by such stellar performers perform-ers as Irma-Acord, who took the lead in the Jaycee mystery play last year, Ralph "Ungerman, . outstanding out-standing B. Y. ' U. dramatist, Morris Clinger, instructor; of speech at the "X," : and a score of other notables, the. gridiron cast will provide hilarious entertainmentthroughout enter-tainmentthroughout ,the evening.. eve-ning.. 1 , ' - No effort has been spared- to make Wednesday . night ,a date long to be remembered, , according accord-ing to General Chairman . Roy Hudson. From politics, schools, civic clubs and power,- on througn to the Jaycee Provo motion picture pic-ture epic, the action of the evening", eve-ning", will move with ' constant surprise, laughs and thrills. There'll be much , ' ''panning" but it will all be in the spirit of good fun, without-rancor and with impartiality and - fairness to all of the opposed forces depicted, de-picted, according to Mr. Hudson. Special guests will be the following fol-lowing newspaper and radio men: J. A. Owens, E. R. Rasmuson and LaVerl Christensen, Daily Herald; Her-ald; J. B. Leyshon, Roy Hudson, John G. Unde and Neff Smart, Tribune -Telegram; Oliver R." Smith, Brigham Young university universi-ty news bureau; p. K. Nielson, D. O. Wight - and Ross Wight, Valley News; C. A. Talboe,. Al Priddy, Arch L. Madsen, A. Gam ( Continued on Page Six) Nov- 23 President By WAV -n -rv-n rtn H w w - U. S. Demands .Safe Conduct Of American Freighter Crew OSLO, Norway, Oct. 31 (U.R) Telephonic reports from i Tromsoe, conflicting with j earlier versions, said todays the City of Flint, .captured; American freighter, had taken aboard supplies including includ-ing foodstuffs which gave it, a wide cruising radius, and indicated indi-cated that it might not go direct to Germany. - .v: ' Earlier reports . from Tromsoe said that when the City of Flint called there yesterday its German Ger-man prize crew were refused supplies. sup-plies. , ' v ''". '':'-v7'- Reports received here, however, said the steamship signalled for food and water and it received these and . otner supplies as it steamed ; through Tromsoe fjord. , It was asserted the ship was, preceded and followed by German armed merchantmen. - After leaving the Tfjord, it. was said, the ship headed out toward the open sea. There was speculation at Tromsoe, Trom-soe, it was said, whether the ship really was headed for Germany because the supplies it took aboard wouk-per mitU tocrutswof t., considerable, time. - ' , - WASHINGTON, Oct: 31 U.R The U. - S. government, it was learned at the state department today, is expressing . to Great Eritain and Germany -its expectation expecta-tion that all belligerents will guard against exposing the 41 Americans Ameri-cans on the City; of ' Flint to unnecessary un-necessary - dangers. , ' Gov SsDGtG Finn : 'cn Parly Provo district Boy . Scouts will stage a Hallowe'en party in the form of a campfire program at the foot of the "Y" mountain at 8 o'clock tonight. Harold Gardner, Gard-ner, chairman of camping for the district, is in charge, assisted by Roy Condie, Provo district commissioner.. com-missioner.. . .. " Troops are requested . to meet at the canal at the ; foot of the "Y" trail, from where they wiU j hike to the campfire spot. Refreshments Re-freshments will be furnished. Wards included In the district are Manavu, First, Fifth, Bonneville, Bonne-ville, Community church and Lions' cluU . , ; ' 'Y' Students Hear -Welfare Chairman The salient features of Latter-day Latter-day Saint welfare, work, especially In regard to the new religious education edu-cation and . student union building now under construction, on , the Brigham Young university campus were vividly portrayed in Monday morning's devotional hour in College Col-lege hall by President Clifford E. Young of American Fork. ; President Young who is president of the Alpine stake and chairman of the Central Utah region for L. D. S. welfare work expressed the feeling to the students that ". . .you'll be proud that it has been erected as a God-Inspired project that will be a credit to you and a lesson to the world." President Young's remarks were preceded by the usual organ prelude, pre-lude, played by J. J. Keeler; "Songs of Michael, He Approaches," Approach-es," written by Charles Thomas and sung by the university mixed chorus, and invocation by Professor Profes-sor Golden L. Woolf. Morris to Lecture t- At Orem Thursday L. S. Morris, head of the landscape land-scape architectural department at Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, will lecture on "Beautiflca-tlon "Beautiflca-tlon and Landscaping" at the seminary building in O r e m Thursday at '7:30 p. m. The lecture. is sponsored by, the Ladies' Auxiliary,- Mrs. Ada Sicm-ner, Sicm-ner, president. Jalloivo (Dims rQ5k Vd::r-sc3i,-Uot3r. C:3L3it;oday; County Clerk Rules Those With November 8 Birthdays Birth-days Eligible The- honor of being the youngest voter to register today to-day in Provo goes to Miss Venice Redd of 1076 East Center street. While - there is i possibili ty , of one or two others sharing her record, none can surpass it. The reason Is ' ; that Bliss Redd's 21st birthday falls on ! November 8, the. day after election day. She had supposed with many others , that she . would le ineligible to vote on November 7, because her birthday comes on the day after-election. But . a ruling has been made by County Clerk Clarence A. Grant that persons whose 2ist birthday comes on November 8, will be permitted to register today and to vote on November 7. Salt Lake county officials have authorized a similar ruling. ' The line of reasoning sus- tabling Mr." Grant's ruling is that a person whose 21st birthday occurs on November 8 real jr becomes 21 years of age ' the day before. f Miss Redd who is employed in the Utah Oil 'Refining company office, registered today in district 19, .Mrs., Oscar Bjerregaard. i.l'Oay. Js the last , oppor- -tunlty for 'anyone' to .'register for voting in the municipal election a week from , today. YOUNG 1OTER uEETTI , Campaign songs ana short talks will highlight a " meeting spon-Hored spon-Hored Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the. city commission rooms by the t Young . Voters Organization-Supporting. Organization-Supporting. , Municipal power, according ac-cording to Beth Pendleton, secretary. sec-retary. - -'..-. Speakers likely will include city officials and other authorities on municipal ; power, she said. Also-Included in the program will be -projection of moving pictures pic-tures ; showing progress of, construction con-struction , of Provo's municipal power; plant being erected at Third West and Seventh - North streets.- ' : . j President Edword. Moe will be in charge. The Young .Voters' municipal power group invites everyone , interested to attend. J stated Miss Pendleton. - . The secretary said the proposed pro-posed debate on the franchise question between the Young Voters' Vot-ers' municipal power organization organiza-tion and the Young. Voters Nonpartisan Non-partisan league has as yet not been scheduled, as the latter organization or-ganization has thus-far failed to accept; the challenge issued by the municipal power group. ; "We are anxious to debate the Non-Partisan league at any date of. their own choosing, and we would' fa glad .to. permit them to use Dr. "Adam S. Bennion or anyone else they desire," Miss Pendleton declared. ' 'When Is on the the ORSDAV Frost Pumpkin . i .The. trcst cn ' thes pnrr.;:3 crr. .-giving --to international bceyrr.-rn, '.1,'ew-VorIi ccmfxld J. fcr a turn st Hallo-i-i .-: --.'IZcQvi witch is witch?. est: TAB V QPFQ ' LllUiilLill Mussolini Takes Steps To Strengthen Itali- -an Neutrality BY REYNOLDS PACKARD ROME. Oct. 31 (U.R) Pre mier Benito Mussolini, in the most drastic shake-up in years, replaced the chiefs of staff of the army rand air force, six cabinet' ministers and the secretary general of the Fascist party today. The shakeup appeared to be an effort to strengthen Italian neutrality. neu-trality. All "Strong Men" .All of ,the new .appointees are regarded as "strong men" in their respective fields, eivinar Musso lini a "brain and brawn trust1 such as ; the. Fascist government has had in the past. They are also all close personal . friends of the premier and Count Galeazzo Ciano, who was left in charge of foreign ministry. SS li This, It was believed by obsery-p ptr was designed to nrenare ItalvTT r - , - o m. v for any eventuality in the European Euro-pean war, to make every pha'se of the government and armed forces "more Fascist" 'and to continue unchanged 'the premier's foreign ! In this way, it was believed," the premier had sought' to pick key men for governmental, party and military posts , who could be counted count-ed on to guard to the limit the program including , .maintenance of neutrality he has laid down since , the war started and, if that proved impossible to be ready for any emergency. ... Authorities emphasized there was no change in Italian foreign policy. . . . Girl Scout 17c d!i-' r ' Doing OLcsrucj Provo's two Girl Scout troops are participating in the observance obser-vance of Girl Scout week, carrying carry-ing out "a special activity planned for each day. . The Girl .Scout 'organization has grown since its founding 21 years ago by Juliette Low from a group of -12 who met in a home to more than half a mil lion girls, deYoted to the ideals of girlhood and healthy living. I ne scnedule for the week is as follows : Monday, Home-making; ; Tuesday, Arts and Crafts; Wednesday, Out-of-Doors; Thurs day, International Friendship; Friday, Citizenship Day; Satur day, Health and Safety; Sunday, Church day. ; ; v In Provo, there are two 1 Girt Scout troops with Mrs. Ralph Swenson in charge as captain of the older group and Mrs. Oscar A. Spear, in charge ot the younger young-er troop. , - .rj frcm c:!3. thouisr' worlJ is Jcs end - Adolf, who turn: up In m 'c j t: 0 3 O iHlili Germany Striving For Peace, Says Premier, But Britain Is Now the A pressor; --a Restoration of Poland Useless BY HENRY KHArino MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (U.R) Premier Viacheslov MoIwUjv tonight bitterly charged fireat Britain and France with "imperialistic "im-perialistic and criminal" aggression,' promi?ed "prac tic. l cooperation" to Nazi Germany and firmly reiterated Sovid Russia's neutrality in the European war. In a speech of international significance before t!:e supreme soviet, the premier and foreign minister disclosed that England had rejected the most important Russian d. - r (, mantis for bases on Jt'innl-.h ru- t1 Giinriiirnn By UNITED PRESS Germany High command says four enemy planes shot down on western front, reports German reconnaisance troops crassed French frontier and returned "with as much war material as they could carry" after scouting in front of Maginot line and find ing abandoned trenches, machine gun nests and villages and encoun tering no enemy fire. Allies British report successful econnaissance flights over north ern Germany yesterday by Royal Air fbrce planes in which valuable information and photographs of enemv airdromes were obtained despite information srl rl ''to- nhfnlnnrl rlpsnito antl.alrrnift rti- sistance; admit one plane missing. French report German big gun: shelled points far behind Maginot line, French artillery replying; one German reconnaissance plane, possibly pos-sibly more, shot down over interior of France. . Hninesia Uicfe ; Deueals Cdooiity After supposedly fmfferuig from a temporary lapse of memory, an unidentified youth taken to the Utah county infirmary by sheriff's officers Monday "recovered" early in the evening and told John Moore, attendant, he was Gone Aldrich, 252 South Thirteenth East, Salt Lake City. The youth was placed aboard a Salt Lake and Utah Railroad car Monday night by the sheriff's office, to be returned to his home, according to Deputy Charles Mitchell. Believing the strange youth might be a parolee or an escaped prisoner the sheriff's office fingerprinted fin-gerprinted him Monday afternoon. Returns of the fingerprinting were telephoned here this morning by the state bureau of Investigation in Salt Lake City, which further established the stranger's identity as Aldrich. The bureau reported the youth had been arrested in Topeka, Kan., Grand Junction, Colo., and Salt Lake City for shoplifting, according to Mr Mitchell. Aldrich made . his appearance here Monday morning when he entered the office of Roy Passcy, chief probation officer, stating he could remember nothing and didn't know who he was or where he came from. r BORN Girl, to David T. and Ruby Luke Nelson, Sunday evening at the family home. Boy, to James Orvil and Doris Lambett Bird of Springvuie, today, to-day, Utah Valley hospital. LICENSED TO MARRY Virgil Noble, . 21, Oden. ond Alta Clark, 17. Pleasant Grove. Melvin Miner, 32, Vineyard, and Ethelyn Clark, 22, Provo. Charles Cox, 2i, Payson, and Esther Frost. 21. Spanish Fork. William Pay, 21. Nephi, and Dorothy Smith, 16, Santnquin, married by county clerk. ELKS miJIT THURSDAY' It will be "roll call night" at the meeting of the Provo Lode No. Si 9. B. P. O. Elks, Thursday at 8 p. m.t Roy Sorenson, exalted ruler, announced today. Day 7 " .s3t li 1 w. 1 1 . 0 Srtaik I V i li ! 1 t tory and nid thai lilti::;,' !!.. United States arms tml.n, y "would only prolong and ;;.; ..-cate ..-cate the war." "The munitions manufacturer, will mak profits," he said f t' American congrcNa debate, h il added that ruch a factor wv.h insufficient in-sufficient cauLC for lilting t'.f embargo as asked by l'jcs; r t Itocscvelt. ItrjKrtH Drilled Molotov H.ild the Sovi'-t u.-;;".-i is interested in'tJie Gulf ut 1';:.-land 1';:.-land but he denied Jtui -i.i d , .;? i the Aaland Islands., He said reporti Hu - -i t . i making demandi on Vwtl'-n r: 1 Norway, .simil if to tho"e n L l-via, l-via, Kathoniu and Lithu mia, w:i "unworthy.'" ipenking of I'inhin'l In- r .1 "we want a pact oi mutual r - EJ&tance h pproximutrly of-the pacts with U i: -i.unu ir.s. I J:Clca ItU' .j. S iCI rn5 t,n t; grounds thy neutrality. Molotov gently i t j-i " " ' ! I 'resident Ro:);cvrlt far "u.tcr-fering" "u.tcr-fering" in .uvict-Kinnl .!i rt l.itr "Tne Phillppine-s still, !. ,v . independence wJule v.v h ive r -ognir.ed I inr.i.sli sovereignty." I"' said in referring to American p' sessions. 1000 DrpullcH Altrnd The extraordinary Joint fiK.-.;o:i of the two (hamh- ra of tl-e i . i-prerne i-prerne Soviet council o'tw1 i:i the 'St.. Andrews hall ut t( )lr i: lit) at 7:10 p. m, Molotov I- . n .speaking at 7:45 p. m. ?i i t r t! delegates had voted sn J i calling for Mo'otov'a rrj-ort ' s foreign poliey nn( re;fits If the delegates of IVibh anas now incfiiporatcd in tiie : ovict ui.r :,. More than 1,000 "deputie , Ijk Ii: 1-ing 1-ing J31 from Uyelo (white) Hi: -sla and western UluainiM in p; turesquc native costumes ravf a 10-minute ovation to Jowf .' 1 .';.. t as he entered the chamber, t! c floodlit former throne room of t.v tzars. Former Foreign C'onm.i n Maxim IJtv'Jnoff wilh anion; th" cheering delegates. "There lnve ber-n important changes in the internatln al situation situa-tion during the past two month:;," Molotov said. 'Thi:i applied al -v( all to I'urope but al: to c-n,':tt i i far beyond . the confines of L.i-rope." L.i-rope." He said that of three Import: .t circumstanced first inerit:; should be made of diarge. Xf.ui have taken piact -n u-lationa t tween Germany and the .'.. : ? union." ' "Abnormal" Relations l"ml "Since the conclusion of t!, Jipviet-German non - ori: a pact on Aug. 23, an end has brcu (Continued on l'age l ive) AUNT IfET ii r Hur kt "The muvlr. its su!" la Isle tniitif) tn: . tt---it ai t:,ti;tl. Kin' i-Ja. Bj'jtrrvp r-n.'r:; f-.-r folks vi'tfiif.l ti:r;:-l th to the l i ;.' a' Y ." |