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Show -v- - oT V V Y1 1 The Weather UTAH: CifneraJly air tonight ajvd Thursiay, little clause in t rr ra t a re. Max. tmp, Tue-lay - 73 31 in. temp., Tuesiay 1 FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, Inherit Embargo Headach f 'VY: r i i' ) v; The President's neutrality till, rtamped with a Senate "O. K." has landed plump in the laps or these anrLjither members of the lower house. Left to right: SpcakcV ViIh-m Bnnkhead. Majority-Leader Sara Rayburn, and Minority Leader Joseph Martin, Jr. Burton Speaks For JZLlTlufXVgO By JOIIN - WASHINGTON, Novf! N. Y., a" former supporter of urged the house to retain the its removaltbe interpreted as a -(Si. GO-ROUND A DaHy Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. Big City Contests of New Dealers vs. GOP Watched For Political Signs; Liberal Democrats Oppose Incumbent Incum-bent Republicans in Three Key Sections; .... . .u .. , , . . . , mm WASHINGTON To. the general gen-eral public, war developments and the neutrality battle m Congress Con-gress have combined to blackout the group of important municipal munici-pal elections next Tuesday. But rot to party leaders, who are watching them with intense interest in-terest as significant indicators ot the political winds. Attention is. chiefly focused on three elections in three key "sections "sec-tions of the country the East, Midwest, and Pacific coast. Each is a contest of a liberal Democrat Demo-crat against an entrenched Republican Re-publican regime. Jn the t;ast the "battleground is rockribbed Republican Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, where Judge Robert E. Lam bo r ton. hand-picked candidate candi-date of Joseph Pew. oil-million-aire boss of the-local-GO P. is opposed by Democratic City Controller Con-troller Robert C. Wfyte on a reform re-form platform tucked by some independent Republicans. Many years of machine rule have bankrupted bank-rupted the city last year it had to hock its municipal . gas plant to raise operating tunds and White is demanding a new deal in local affairs. The major Midwest contest Is in Detroit,- between Republican Mayor Richard Reading and Edward Ed-ward J. Jefferies, a new young Democratic crusader. 'Thirty-six years old, son of a prominent Democrat who sat on the State bench for CO years, Jefferies led Heading by better than 5-to-2 in a non-partisan primary early last, month. Jefferies is personable person-able and dynamic, and 13 being groomed by state Democratic chiefs to go after Senator Arthur Var.den berg's scaJp next year. The important West Coast fight is in San Francisco, where veteran Mayor Rossi is being challenged by Representative Frank Havener, one-time water power crusader, - one-time secretary secre-tary to Senator Hiram Johnson, (Continued or. Page 4, Sec. 2) NO. 84 UTAH'S ONLY rXIX.Y SOUTH OF SALT LAKfl : 1 ''I I A t..r C- 5"rf . K. DEAL. . "' U.R) Rep. Bruce Barton R., arms embargo repeal today ban of shipment of arms lest "signal to start a real war," Barton carried forward the fight of embargo repeal forces on the house floor as administration leaders lead-ers hailed initial and partial teste of house sentiment as forecasting victory for president Roosevelt's neutrality measure by a margin of around 20 votes. "The longer we postpone - our action over here," Barton declared, "the longer the people of Europe arc going to' ask 'What's the pur pose of this war? . Cockeyed War T have come to the conviction that this is the. most stupid, the most crazy, the most cockeyed war in human history. Rep. Ed. V. Izac. D., Calif., arertied for lifting the embargo on grounds that Germany had been ivirtor the rrterials for war from the United States for six years. Democratic whip Patrick J. Bo-land, Bo-land, D., Pa.; who previously has avoided any definite vote prediction, predic-tion, said he was confident of a minimum 20-vote majority for repeal, re-peal, "and thought it probably wouldv be more.- Majority Leader Sam Rayburn said he proposed to move to shut off further debate at 2 p. m. tomorrow to-morrow and begin voting on what ever amendments are pending, un less the opposition makes an earl Jer move. Logic vs. Emotion-Barton Emotion-Barton said after reading entire, senate debate on neutrality he concluded that "logic- was in favor of keeping the embargo and only emotion on-ihe other, sloe." He described thev senate bill as"an effort to help. Geat Britain and , r A Continued on Page SI Coming Events Provo Lodge No. 849, IB. P. O. Elks, Thursday, 8 p. n., annual roll call night, buffet luncheon; ail members rcauested to be present. Lions. Thursday, 7 m., Haase cafe, public work charge. Speaker, ' Jensen, acting presi mmittee -in r. Christen fent, , Brigham ; Young university. istrict Gov- ernor Jesse L. Hiatt to be pres ent. Directors vvilf meet ; at 6:15 p. m. 'C Ki wants,- Thursday, 12:15 p. m Hotel RoberLs. Speaker, Jack Gibb. psychology instructor. B. Y. U.. topic, "Spmmary of Opening Open-ing Freshmen Tests Given at Brigham Young universtiy." Junior chamber of commerce, tonight, 7:30. First ward hall, annual Press-Radio Roast. 20-SJ) club, Thursday, 8 p. m., Riverside cafe, luncheon meeting, program to te furnished by Tom Petrrson. PROVO, : v , ':-" ' :.: .!!;t:;:r ;Vj';':;'T'-. --;--"!vt:- , - y ; - : l - . ICOROII M ILLbllUN Heavjest Pre-election Registration Seen In Provo City With interest in the municipal muni-cipal electibn Tuesday running run-ning at a fevWisIi height, due mainly to the battle centered around the rower, franchise question, the neaviest vote in the history oi Provo city is expected.: 1 , 4 : Typifying the Voter-interest the election is comnj anding, approxl mately 1600 new in the 19 distric totera registered of ' the city Tuesday, pushin, the' total eligi ble voters to approximately 8000 Highest In 193 Highest vote t-ecorded in the past was 5559 bajlots, cast in the 1935 epecial electibn on the muni-cipaL muni-cipaL power question. Number of new registrations in 11 districts reporting to - Cotmty Clerk: C.A-r XSrant -by3 day foUows:. District 3, 45; 4 105: 5, 88; 6, 14, 58; 15, 98; 91; 10, 156; 13, 62 17. 77; 18, 45; 19. X5. Voters in Tuesday's election will be asked to declare either Mark Anderson or'- Alma Van Wagenen as mayor for the next twa-year term; . John , WMcAdam - or- J. P. McGuire . as commissioner for a four-year term f and either Ralnh Elliott or Mary F. Smith as city auditor for fotir years.. . ' , In addition they, will be asked to vote on three power proposi tions, one off which is whether or not . the Utah Power . and Light company shpuld be granted a 10-year 10-year franchise when its present franchise expires January 27, 1940. On this Question is hinged major ma-jor interest in the election. Municipal Muni-cipal power advocates are working overtime in an effoTT to defeat the franchise renewalrwhfle backers of the Utah Power and Light company com-pany arrf working just as hard to put over, the measure. " , Whether or not the people should repeal Jthe original municipal power pow-er bond and construction ordinancesordained ordin-ancesordained by the voters Oc-tobe Oc-tobe 13, 1936, also forms the basis for a1 strong fight, the city administration aid its ' municipal power supporters advocating that tbi people vote "against," and the pwer company and its backers ging a 'for" vote, -, i . .: Both the municipal, power rro- onents and : the power company ave perfected strong organiza tions to "get out the vote." Pre liminary surveys made by canvassers can-vassers for -both 'sides indicate that the franchise election may be cl-e, unless there is a stampede to either, side in the closing days of the campahji. SENATOR'S . WIFE DIES WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 U.R) Mrs Elizabeth "AsTiurst, 65, wife of Sen. Henry "Ashurst, D.,: Ariz.; died today after a long illness. MARK ANDERSON 'and ALMA VAN WAGENEN Both Agree on this peint That you can buy, . rent or sell anything through the classified classi-fied columns of The Herald. Head Them Every Day! UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939 -. I Crack -German ' 1 roops Reported m.Aciion-- On Western Wront- Sector Nazi "Shock Troops" Involved Only, in Scattered Scat-tered Action, Says Communication ." - ; - ' . " , , ' ' ; ' '' v . 1 . ': "" BEKL1N, Nov. 1 (U.RNazis' reported t6day that some crack German troops, had gone into action in isolated sectors of the western front, where the high command said there was fighting by advance .forces J . ' ' , Q allialiG Porf sy i 1 Medio Start? IThird Term Doom WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UJ!)-? President Roosevelt denied knowi ledge of reported plans by wes'"-' tern liberals to launch a. third-term third-term boom for him at a meeting to be held at some future date, j He told his press conference yes terday tfia.t vague reports regard-! ing a meeting had reached him' They were, however, in genera terms, he said, and his understand- ing was .that - the conference was CIO President John L. Lewis, speaking as. chairman of Labor's Non-Partisah league, charged that Progressives from 11 western states were being organized, with out Mr. Roosevelt's approval, to meet, at ' Salt Lake ;City to . organize or-ganize a. third term boom.1 , ; The chief executive recalled that last August he was told ' of a forthcoming liberal -meeting at Salt Lake City, but was given to understand that it was ' to be a politically-disinterested attempt to review all phases of government agriculture, social security and other issues in particular. On the understanding that, the meeting was to be non-parttsan, he continued, , he planned tp attend but said he heard nothing further regarding it. He said the confer ence apparently was cancelled or postponed and that his first intimation inti-mation that such was not the case came when Lewis charges were called to his attention. , POLICE OFFICER APPOINTED HERE ' Paul S, Anderson, who has served as special police Officer since July 1, Tuesday was appointed ap-pointed as a regular officer in the Provo city police department by the city commission upon recommendation of Henry East, police chief.. i ' - Mr. 'Anderson had passed successfully suc-cessfully examinations conducted by the civil service commission. .Appointment of the new officer of-ficer will bring the strength of the . police ... department to nine men - in addition to Chief East, according to Mayor Mark Anderson. An-derson. Increase in the force was made: necessary in view of the additional work in the department, depart-ment, such as handling the traffic traf-fic problem. ; Chief East reports that Officer E. W. Mower, who suffered sev eral broken ribs and a head in jury in a motorcycle accident re- I cently, will return for police duty within a few weeks. BOKN . Boy, to Eugene and Maythel Ruh , Olscn, Tuesdayr Utah Valley Val-ley hospital. . Girl, to Earl and Mildred Boyd Arnold, Monday, Utah Valley hospital. . - LICENSED TO MARRY Ray LeVere Strasburgh, 21, American Fork, and Gwen War-burton, War-burton, 18, Pleasant Grove. Tltis '-Day TV));The Nazi "shock troops" appar- tsntly were involved only in scattered scat-tered actions and it was not Indicated Indi-cated whether their operations as distinguished from normal advance ad-vance patrols were a prelude to greater abtivity in the Rhineland fighting zone. Six or, eight airplanes, including at least four British craft,' were reported shot down thi3 week over the Rhineland or the North Sea. ; . The German: westwall or Sieg-ried Sieg-ried . line. fortifications, were manned man-ned by.' specially trained forces during the Polish campaign, it was understood, but later the crack Nazi units were transferred to the Western front. . , s - - , 1 Normally, shock troops are held behind the ' main defensive lines for operations wherever needed, while other units hold advance pa trol anl fortification, positions.- DOOTII ELECTED (MIS CHIEF - SPANISH FORK John E. Booth, former Utah state senator, was elected president; of the Spanish Span-ish Pork Klwanis club; at the regular regu-lar election of "officers Monday night at the Swenson cafe. - Mr. Booth's opponent was R, W. Creer, postmaster. Other officers elected are: Wendall Franci3, arid . Sherman Sher-man i McGarry, ' vice presidents; Loren A. Anderson, Claude Hawkins, Haw-kins, Arthur Jolley, Horace Mag-gleby Mag-gleby and Cecil E. Webb, directors. direct-ors. : Merrill : Nielsen, immediate past president, automatically becomes be-comes a director. The secretary will be appointed. The new officers offi-cers will t: be installed .the first meeting in January. Vivian Hatch accompanied by her mother, Mrs. S. A. Gardner, furnished -vocal solos, and Miss Cora Gardner played play-ed accordian solos. an Foanil Bond ' Mn Qailrocd 6ar LOGAN. Utah, Nov.' 1 , UJE : The sheriff's office today was attempting at-tempting to contact friends or relatives in Livingstone, Mont., of Joseph Zucca, about 50, who was found dead on top of a railroad box car last night. Officials said Zucca died of a heart attack sometime after he boarded the car at Ogden. There was no evidence of foul play. Tliree Youths '.-Draw 'Stravs to See VIio Would MaiTy the Girl LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (U.R) The story of how three youths drew straws to decide which one of them would marry pretty Jacqueline Jac-queline Loyst, 17 was told in superior su-perior court today. William Dobson, 18, said he drew the short straw and took the bride. He told the story to Judge Charles E. Haas and won an annulment of the marriage. Young Dobson related he and two other youths took the Loyst girl on a "joyride" intq Nevada last month. Some one told them they might face prosecution under the Mann act for taking her across state lines, he said. "So," Dobson testified, "we drew v straws to decide which of U3 would marry the girl and protect pro-tect us from arrest. I lost." Miss Loyst had. agreed to-take as her . husband the youth who 11 muw. mm Belmont Mine Fire To Be Hard Blow To Nevada Camp .. T0N0PAH, Ne v., Nov. 1 (U.R) Fire damage was esti mated at $100,000 to surface workings only today at , the Tonoparr Belmont mine, one of the largest in this district. . The fire, of undetermined origin, , started last night and was expected to bum underground under-ground for several days. Damage to the 1300-f obt shaft was declared irreparable. None was injured.' The flames broke through to the surface last night, caught the ore bin,, spread to the machine shop, the blacksmith shop, the foreman's office and the change room, completely com-pletely gutting them. , ' Old-timers said it would be a hard r blow to Tonopah, scene . of fabulous early-day gold operations. Upward of 50 leasers were oper ating at the ,mmc Several-were ready to . make shipments, one nining authority declared that the fire would rank as one of the worst in western mining history. Columns of smoke were still pouring from the shaft this morning. morn-ing. . , The fire . recalled the Belmont holocaust , of Feb, 1 23, 1911, when 17 men died. Second largest mine in . Tonopah, the Belmont was started in 1B02 and paid $11,000,-000 $11,000,-000 dividends by 1925. . . Siriko Fiue 0. L GSorcj SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 1 (U.R) Stores f of five Salt Lake City chain grocery organizations were closed today by a strike of meat cutters and food handlers. " ' About 40 , stores operated by Safeway, Crystal Palace, Success, O. P. Skaggs and Grand Central Markets locked their doors this morning.when.SOO union members employes walked out after negotiating ne-gotiating for higher wages and other working demands bogged down. . - Disputed sections of the contracts con-tracts covered only food handlers, but because the meat cutters belong be-long to . the same union, they automatically au-tomatically walked out with other employes. Booth Occupies City Court Bench A. L. Booth is sitting as Judge pro tern in the city court for a few days in lieu of Judge LeRoy Tuckett who is vacationing. Mr, Booth served as city judge prior to Mr. Tuckett's taking office. drew the short straw, he said, so they drove on Into Montana and Dobson falsified- his age at Vaughn, Mont., to obtain a license.-' 'v.''"; . " - ' : A clergyman they encountered walking along the highway performed per-formed a roadside marriage, with the two youths who drew the long straws acting as best man and witness. The minister, the Rev. Nelson F, Grote, Methodist, of Dutton Mont., wrote out a certification cer-tification of the marriage' which they could show to any questioning question-ing authorities. Dobson declared he would not have gone through with the marriage mar-riage had he not mistakenly believed be-lieved they were subject to arrest. ar-rest. He said they never lived together as man and -wife and he left" her and returned home two days later., - - " ' unm. AT mm COM PLETB UNTTKD PRESS TKI ,EG RA I'H N EWB 1BRV1CB Challedon Is Winner At Pimlico Maryland : Bred Colt Steps Out. Ahead To Win Season's Crown ' PIMLICO RACE TRACK, Baltimore, Nov. 1 (U.R) Challedon, Chal-ledon, Maryland bred colt, won the Pimlico special today. Yay-ak II was' second, and Cravat third. : - The colt, owned by William Li. Brann, was clocked in 1:59. . ' ,: (The victory gave Challedon the undisputed title of horse of the year. - - ; The "bay son of Challenger II, tunning over the same home soil on ' which he won the Preakness takes last -spring, scored by a half length over Charles S. Howard's Kakak II. " . V Challedon won with a smashing finish : after Kayak II had passed him going around the final turn. Cravat, off two lengths behind the others, was third all' the way and finished 12 length back of tthe "Winner Trt the three-horse mile and three-sixteenth race. The. time was almost three seconds; sec-onds; off the track record. i , A crowd of 25,000 persons backed back-ed Challedon down to the prohibitive prohibi-tive price of 2- 5 as he went against the two greatest horses in America. - TROOPS COMING TIIROOGil PROVO Nearly 1,000 officers and men will leave Fort Douglas tomorrow and Monday for Fort Sam Houston, Hous-ton, Texas, to spend the winter in special , maneuvers as part of the newly created second army division. di-vision. . ' Three companies, the . service, medical and headquarters detachments detach-ments will depart at dawn tomorrow tomor-row in trucks and service cars for a 1552 mile ride through southern Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas to their new post, which they plan to reach a week from today. Theyvwill travel through Provo en royte. " The remainder of the group that is going south will make the trip by train, leaving Monday. When the final party of the 38th Infantry leaves, all that will remain re-main at Fort Dounglas will be about 250 men and officers who will form the "post guard" and handle recruiting activities. llmhmls Start ; Fesfiun! Piano Snow hasn't begun to fly, but the Christmas season is nearing, and already plans are being drawn for the Christmas lighting festival festi-val and parade sponsored annually annual-ly by the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce through Its retail merchants committee, announces Clayton Jenkins, secretary. At a meeting of the retail merchants mer-chants Tuesday, McKay Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, chairman of the merchants committee, was authorized to proceed pro-ceed immediately to select committeemen com-mitteemen for the event. Although plans are only In the formative stage. It 13 expected the streets through the business section sec-tion will be decorated with Christmas Christ-mas lights and symbols in preparation prepara-tion for the gigantic parade and season's opening to be held a few weeks in advance of Christmas. The schools usually cooperate in staging the Christmas parade, and the "city fire department handles han-dles the Christmas lighting, using equipment of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. -' . - Call The Herald '" If you do not receive your Hernia promptly, call The JlontJd office, 495. bet ore 7 p. nu week days, a ltd 10 ft. ra. Sumlay. and a copy win bo delivered to you. PRICE FIVE CEN'I 3 (I Position Given Is In- side Neutrality ,2Jcnc Announced ' NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (U.R) The 'British-, freighter Coul-more Coul-more was feared today to have been sunk in an attack that brought the war clor.c to American shores. Six coast guard .ships and two airplanes raced to the scene of the attack, about 4,0 miles east of Bo.ston. The flirt one to arrive there found no trace of the freighter or its crew. The search continued in heavy ca.s. Attacker Indefinite The Coulmore's dlstrcu4 c-'Hl,-? last night , indicated that It hd been attacked by a truhm'tf i.' But this was not definitely confirmed. con-firmed. British naval circles discussed dis-cussed the possibility that a German Ger-man surface raider prrhap a .pocktJaU1'shlp. mwdfl the ft" tuck. The United States, trying not only to save the Coulmore's crew but to obtain all possible information, informa-tion, on naval opera tiotvi near these shores, mobilized all available avail-able rescue fhlps. If the Coul-more Coul-more reported its position correctly, correct-ly, the attack occurred inside the American neutrality zone proclaimed pro-claimed by the Panama conference. The cutter George M.'Bibb.'ir.'it to arrive at the position Riven in the SOS, reported a modernt-southerly modernt-southerly gale was blowing end that it was continuing its tcarth northward "in very heavy ncus." The Bibb expected to make ton-(Continued ton-(Continued on Tape Six) Pisy Tieoidoni Fatal to Voulfi NEW II Kent Tolley, l-yoar-old Ron of Jack nn'l Delia Orm-Tolley, Orm-Tolley, of Ncphl, whh fatally injured in-jured Tuesday night when an jh -cldental discharge from a .22 tnli-ber tnli-ber pistol penetrated hla rif.ht eye and ledsed in his brain. He-died He-died almost instantly. Tolley and two companions had, been cleaning the pistol, 'which exploded ex-ploded in the hands of Hilly Ca zler, 13, son of Mrs. LuVel Kvedin. of Nephi. Deputy Sheriff H. C Winn of Juab county said the shooting was purely accidental. It was reported the victim, with Cazier and Charles Tldwcll, J 3 son of Mrs. Frank Tldwril of Nephi, had been T'Laying with the gun Tuesday afternoon and hnl been firing cartridges from which they had removed the leaden t.Iuir.s. The accident occurred - at the 8vcdin home. AUNT IIET V & "I . wiix gh$d to mt J" and Allvii n aw;v i (? i lunymoon. If tyM j Keep golu till thy Kot ! yond ,tho rc-acli o rt-t.iflv" they'd 1-nft a Icuice to i REMBS-TG ,5.y.d, urn v. - a It IV !! il V |