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Show i V1 '. . - L I. ! ' ' - A -A s . . Tlic Tcathcr UTAH: Fair tonight and Saturday, Satur-day, litUo change la tempera--tnre. 3 lax.' tfmp,' Thursday 67 21in. temp., Thursday . 16 FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, What's This? A i.0 HISSES r -t . i. ' 7- ": a ft k-, ... ' v . v - -. A rare sight in war-torn Europe these day la this scene as. a Swiss and. a French frontier guard shake hands across one , of t the few remaining frontiers still quiet and-.friendly in Europe. (Acme Newspictures). - , - ' MERRY-GO-ROUND . JjV. Baily Picture of What'a f Affairs - " ROEZST . 3. AIXEN Russian, Other Foreign . Agents Inspect Plants Making Mak-ing U. S. Warplanes ; Navy- Checks On Activities: Con- , gress May Be Asked For Exclusion Law; Allied Ob-- Ob-- servers Exjvect -Soviet -To . Plunge Across Scandinavia To Sea McNutt Not Called Call-ed On At Legion Meeting Was He Taken For a Ride? WASHINGTON While Roose velt was invoking1 a moral embargo em-bargo against shipment of aircraft to Russia,, .there were between 75 and ' 100 Russian-employed agents and inspectors in American factories which produce aircraft and defense equipment for the U. S. Army and. Navy. Some are Russians, some are TJ. S. citizens working for Russia. All are under the direct control of Amtorg, the Soviet purchasing agency in New York. A . The two companies which have the largest Russian " orders at present are Radio Corporation of America, which is making radio sets for Russian ships and planes; and Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Corpor-ation, wh'ch is making planes for the Soviets., Amtorg agents are admitted daily to these plants,- tcT inspect progress of the work on Soviet orders. War and Navy departments are uneasy about this practice, and would prefer to exclude all foreigners for-eigners from plants producing -equipment for U. S. forces. But government policy thus far has made no discrimination between foreigners; a Russian or ,Japa-; nese or German wno appnes through the State Department for a permit to vi3it or inspect a plant Is given the same courtesy as a Briton or a Erizilian. V Probability Is that the question will come up in Congress at the next session, and an exclusion policy may be enacted into law. ileanwhile the Navy Depart (Continued on Page Two) STOCKS NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UI'J Stocks made an Irregular decline in light trading today. Steel stocks dropped more than a point and then recovered on indications in-dications that the operating rate next week would return to above 94 per cent of capacity for an all-time all-time record ingot output on a tonnage ton-nage basis. .- A jump of several hundred 'per cent in Chrysler operations this week carried the nation's automobile automo-bile production total to a SO-month high at 115.48S cars and trucks, against 93,633 In the previous week, and 100,705 in the corresponding corre-sponding week cf last year. Sugar shares dropped when President Roosevelt told his press conference he doubted advisability advisabil-ity of restoring sugar 1 quotas. Losses extended to more than 2 points in Fajardo. NO. 116 Z SoStSSai:-: PRO VP, Friendly Frontier? v - - 3 .4 State industrial School Paroles Sought , by Polieo At large today was d 17-year- old Provo youth, high school stu dent, paroled from the1 state in dustrial- school, who is -believed by police, to.': have been responsible for" a; purse snatching- a hold-up and-two car thefts here Thursday night.''; ". 1 ,r ;? ' ''""I The youth, ibelieved to have fled Provo in a 1938 Ford V-8 aedan stolen from. K. W. Bailey, .234 West SecoftdS6uth; also Is Talarned for snatching a purse last Monday night from Mrs. ' J. S. . Manton, 1201 West Center. ; . " . v : ' k- Woman Robbed . -.v -i-Accordirig r to '-police a f young man - identified, as .the . industrial school parolee, wrenched a parse from Mrs. John R. Stone, 53 South Seventh .West street, as she ap proached her home about 6 p. to. A1 newspaper . carrier who appeared ap-peared on - the -"scene assertedly pursued the ' bandit, and upon over taking him was ordered to "get going." Police.' said the- youthful thug had a gim at the time. V A Short time later, Earl Peay of West Drive a reported that while he was seated in an- automobile at " Sixteenth - West and Center streets, his own car, which he had previously , parked in front of his home, went by.. He pursued in the (Continued on Page, Three) . PORTLAND AREA PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 8 (CR) -The worst storm of the season swept ; over the lower Columbia river regioiTTast night and today bringing downpours of rain whipped whip-ped by a 65-mile an hour whole gale off the coast. - Shipping at Astoria ana otner lower Columbia river ports was halted after two ships, the Hoegh Silvercloud and the San Gagriel, fought their way across the breaker-studded Columbia bar during the night. High tides swept over the seawall sea-wall at Cannon Beach, and the small community was cut off from transportation by trees that were blown across the road. Telephone and power lines were down this morning from Marsh-field Marsh-field to Astoria while crashing tides gave a spectacular display along the coast near Tillamook. . Charity Ball to Be Held Saturday At the Elks Home "ThereU be fun and merry-making for a good cause at the Elks home Saturday night when members mem-bers of Provo Lodge 849, B. P. O. Elks stage their annual Christmas charity ball, reminds Si I. Levin, general chairman. Proceeds of the dance will go to help pay expenses of the annual an-nual Elks party Christmas morning morn-ing for underprivileged children. The public is cordially invited. Dancing begins, at 9 p. m. -a A t v7 STOIffl STIilKES ri ri i I m I" n i n VJ u mm in TO BUSIfl 1936 G. O. R Nominee Refuses To Reveal , 1940 Favorite WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.R) Former Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas charged4o-4 day that . President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's policy has been to "stir up friction'! between , government govern-ment and business, and called for election of a Republican in 1940 to restore prosperity. ; Landon i reiterated his declaration declar-ation he was not a candidate -for the Republican nomination again. He refused to disclose his. favorite favor-ite for the G. O. P. convention next year. - : : . - ? V Mr. Roosevelt's business-government policies, he told a press con f erence, undoubtedly will be one of the chief issues in the 1940 campaign. .'. - , '-. , ' Another major issue, he said, will be efficiency in government. Under the New Deal, . Landon declared, de-clared, there - is "administrative demoralization." " ; .A " - In calling for election of a Republican Re-publican president, Landon emphasized empha-sized he was not suggesting complete com-plete repudiation of all New Deal policies. '.- . " : v . The country,' he . said, has come to accept some of the New Deal's sdcfal - policies" including social security and the right of collective collect-ive bargaining for laborl r He said he would not'be presumptuous pre-sumptuous ' enough" to offer any suggestions on the administration's policy in the i Russo-Finnish ' dispute. dis-pute. . . i -X i - -. .'Whatever the president and the state department decide to .do," he: added, "I'm for , theni 100 per cent. ;.Until and 'unless; I see direct di-rect . evidence that i the . president wants to get us into war, I'm for bis foreign, policy 100 per cent in a crisis like, this.w v RlTAItl LOSES FOUR VESSELS BV UNITED ' PRESS Loss of a British destroyer and thrv . British merchantmen today s brought to - 190 : the number num-ber of merchant ships and war vessels known to have gone down since the start of the war. Lives lost totaled 3,041. In all, 774,733 tons of Shipping nave been lost. ' ; Lives lost include 110 who died when three . German mine layers , struck mines. Figures do not include tonnage ton-nage or lives lost as result of aUied anti-submarine warfare. Daladier Ccoroo . x Attack on Finn PARIS, Dec.-, 8 (HE) premier Edouard Daladier, to loud cheers, vigorously ' denounced Russia's attack, on Finland in a . speech to the chamber of deputies today.'..' to-day.'..' .,;;,....;'--..: 7; r- "France goes to Geneva' tomorrow tomor-row to answer Finland's- appeal fors justice," he said. "She wUl denounce Russian aggression. "I hope,, that even in enemy territory thereLare still men who feel protest within themselves against the crime to which noble Finland is being subjected." Applause came from all parties. par-ties. . - : - ' V . "Nations are big by virtue of their . men and their civilization, not by their numbers of their territory," the premier continued. "For the first time since Sep. tember 1 (when the war began) it seems there is an awakening of a universal ; conscience Which seemed asleep under the blows of brutal force. This, perhaps, is the greatest Service which Finland Fin-land has . rendered to humanity. "In the name of the government, govern-ment, backed : up by the people, France sends the warmest fraternal fra-ternal salutations to. Finland, and a promise of our aid and support." sup-port." . ss UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939 j . hvli' Acquitted V Maury Maverick, acquitted -today, . as he appeared during hid trial. , .. ' , ' - JURY ACQUITS-? .TEKASHAYOR (UT.) Mayor Maury ' Mayerick was adjudged innocent', today s on charges . that . he illegally con- spired to. pay . poll taxes for others during i the- mayoralty campaign. A district' court. Jury': . which had 'been , given the -case' last night announced ,the verdict. ; ; Maverick,' former New Deal congressman, was :' charged ..'on four counts- of conspiring . to pay poll tax ' for members of the International . Ladies' v Garment Workers union before ? his election elec-tion last May. .',"', ; ' He denied the i charges, ' and testified the 7 entire case against him waslan attempt to "smear" him politically. - - i About v 200 ' persons -. were tn the courtroom; when the 'jury filed in and presented its verdict ver-dict to District: Judge Bryce Ferguson. - ' - - Friends surged forward to congratulate the fiery ex-congressman. Maverick shook hands with all who could reach him, then pushed his way to the jury box" and shook hands ' with each member of the jury. ' Prouo Attorney . leads Junior Oar SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 8 (U.E) A. Sherman Christensen of Provo today was elected chairman of the junior section of the Utah State ' Bar. He succeeded W. L. Skanchy of Ogden. "Family Opens Opening a three-day "run", at College hall, J'Family Portrait" was presented Thursday evening by Brigham Young university speech department under - direction direc-tion of Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, chairman. chair-man. " The production, written -by Lfinore Coffee and : William Joyce Cowan, was selected as the second sec-ond drama of the autumn quarter quar-ter at the university. Its presentation presenta-tion will be repeated Friday and Saturday evening at 8:15 p. m. Depicting New Testament characters char-acters associated with the life of Christ, a large cast of faculty members ? and drama students drew applause from the first night audience, ' The story of the play gave an intimate "picture of the family of the Nazarene. I v i , V j '(.Or : --A : :: ' ; I -.J aa A.Jv A;A p' . - i l j - u. u u u J& OBJEEi Hull ; Files Protest Of v Interference With' ; German Exports WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 U.R) Secretary of State Gor- dell Hull, today advised Great Britain that interference Wi th shipments to - the ' United States in "the course of Brit ain's blockade of German ex-ports; ex-ports; would be 'a violation of 'international law. . - " Hull, made this observance m a formal note delivered to the British Brit-ish foreign ' office today; by. the American embassy in London, I .The note, couched in , terse- but Courteous language "requested that "the British government shall not i cause ' Interference " with" the legitimate trade" of American na tionals and reserved "all rights and the: rights of its " nationals whenever and ..to the extent : that they may be infringed." - . j; Hull indicated this government will,, refuse', as a . matter of principle," prin-ciple," to decognize establishment of a blockade of "the Finnish coast by Soviet, Russia! The projected blockade would have little, effect oh the1 United States since there are no American vessels sailing In the' area. . " . - - Hull said it was a principle of mterliatlohal la w That' a blockade must rest upon some justification in. international law. He indicated that the Russian blockade had no such justification, since . 'there has vbeen "no.- declaration of war between Russia and - Finland , 20-30 CLOB TO SPONSOR rlET y Plans for .the ' 1941 ' naUonal 20-30 i club 'convention, which Is scheduled for . Salt Lake City, were reviewed by Provo Twenty-Thirtians Twenty-Thirtians at a , business meeting Thursday. ' - ' Lynn J. Searle of the 'alt Lake club, who is now employed by Telluride Motor Co., in Provo, Pro-vo, : presented the convention ideas of. his group. ; ' . - Reports were . given by Kenneth Ken-neth Martin, general chairman of the annual dinner-dance, . December Decem-ber 16; and President Loyal Mor-tensen, Mor-tensen, in charge of the reception recep-tion being planned for National President Abbe ; Strunk and Dad Shimmin, honorary 20-30 member of Phoenix, Arizona, "who are expected in Provo December 17. ' Mr. Shimmin has visited more than a hundred 20-30 clubs , during, dur-ing, the past year, it was reported. re-ported. ,. . , . . , TO JUDGE COSTUMES ' Mr3. Jena V. Holland and Mrs. Ireta B. Mason, , recreation officials, of-ficials, wUl be - judges . at the Youth .of Provo. costume -ball, December " ' 22 in the - Women's clubhouse, it was announced at a meeting of the organization Thursday night. Tickets may be purchased from any Youth member: mem-ber: ' - ' Portrait, Y Play ; to Capacity Audience As Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mrs. Kathryn B. Pardoe -was the central character of the play. Her four sons, brothers of Jesus, were played by Morris . M. . dinger, Ralph A. Britsch, and Twain Tip-petts Tip-petts of theB. Y. U.. faculty and Lynn Sorenson of Fairview. ' 1 The .presentation fulfilled the description of ,; the play given by a New York critic last spring when the production appeared on Broadway. The World Telegram critic said: "It is beautiful and dignified.. It breathes the spirit of humility and tolerance. It is reverent rev-erent in its approach to those whose personal lives were so closely bound up with that of the Founder of Christianity. "But it ' fs 'also ' pitiless in its exposure (Continued on Page Three) n. n eame.m To Hedr Chame 'Against Red Soviet Imposes Blockade On Finllind's'Coast r Against JVeutrals; Russian Troops Press Closer To Viborg Town - , ' . ..y;..1 :','f - By JOE ALEX MORRIS . . United Press Foreign New-s Editor. Europe's warring nations world opinion tomorrow when Finland s charges on aggression by Soviet Russia. In the air, on the seas and on the battlefronts, the war goes on. The Red navy advised neutrals that a blockade of the Finnish coast was being inaugurated, while the Red army pounded at the defenses of southeast Finlandadvanced slowly slow-ly against repeated counter attacks on the Arctic coast, and ; I'Jilson Protest Reappointment of State Goad an Attacking the reappointment of Preston G. Peterson of Provo, as a member of the' Utah state road commission, -David . J. Wilson, of Osrderi. Republican - state chair man for Utah, today issued a prepared pre-pared statement in which he de clared his party will definitely op pose confirmation of the appoint ment at the 1941 session of the state legislature. ; - r;Mr; WHaori . chargect- that Hr. Peterson, . although listed as Republican, "has not been a Re publican f of many years," and al leged the Democratic:state organ ization is using the road commis sion as a pouticai maenme. . us statement follows: . ' ': - ': - , "The announcement that ; Gov ernor , Blood yesterday renamed Preston K G. Peterson to the " state road commission came as a shock to many of the people- of Utah It-is -of particular interest to the Republicans since It is announced that Mr, Peterson is a Republican, and was appointed to the Repub lican membership oh. the commission. commis-sion. y . . - -,r -.Vv;;: "The fact is, Mr. Peterson has not been - a Republican for . many years; and has been perpetuated in office "by Democratic governors and charged against the Repub licans because of the desire of the Democratic state) organization to use the state road commission as a political machine. : " "The state law specifically pro vides' that both major 'political parties must be represented on the commission. It is well known that the other two -members of the commission are Democrats and were appointed to the commission as representatives of that party. To appoint; Mr. Peterson a mem (Continued on Page Three) ) GUILD KILLED BY SUFFOCATION SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 8 (UO Eight - months - old Roneiia Hansen was suffocated today when she-became enveloped in covers of her crib. The fire department de-partment resucitator squad was called when the child's plight was discovered, butshe was pronounced pro-nounced dead when the firemen arrived. 17AR DULLETItlS COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Dec 8 (HE) Finnish sharpshooters, clad in ghostlike white cloaks which : made them almost invisible invis-ible against a background of snow, stole silently, along on skis to attack Russian troops on the far northern front and scored an important victory, - a dispatch from Klrkenaes in the frontier area fiaid today. t LONDON, Dec. 8 0TJ! -H. M. S. Jersey, a destroyer, has been damaged by a torpedo, it was announced an-nounced . officially today. -. Two officers and eight ratings were believed to have been killed. The Jersey is a destroyer, of the javelin class, 1,690 tons. Its normal nor-mal complement Is 183. COMPLETE ITSJITRTV TEI-EORAPII NEWS n P In in tions 'Fi make an important appeal to the League of Nations hears -O shoved to' a point almost 50 miles deep In the center of : Finland in an effort to . cut the country in two. . - Nearlng Viborg Although the Russians claimed they were within 19 miles of the important town of VHpurl (Viborg) (Vi-borg) in the south, the Finns were still holding their main defensive lines in Thatharea and in the far north their white-clad troops were reported to have thrown the Red army back several miles by a sur-prlce sur-prlce attack, in the Petsamo region. , , V . . On the western front, too, the war . went on x with - suddenly in creased tempo, 1 German bombing planes were reported turned back in, a flight toward Paris. French troops on- the .Moselle-Rhine front started wider operations. Paris dispatches said, in retaliation for about 80 Nazi raids in the last 48 hours. Polish guerilla bands were reported re-ported operating in the Carpathians Carpath-ians on , a. scale that . prompted Germany, to send . around . 60,000 men, to ;clean up those areas. ',. British : fighting planes drove Nazi craft' from the north sea coastal areas for the second consecutive con-secutive day. r " . Meet .'At " Geneva- ," . - ' - ' The British arid French' apparently appar-ently , have decided to rally world opinion against the Soviets tactics, arid with Germany, , Italy and Japan abandoning . the League of Nations, and Russia threatening to; follow, they - may expect to dominate the Geneva sessions. The British, it was asserted in London, will support any practical proposals ; before the leaguo for penalties against Russia because of the Red army invasion of Finland. Fin-land. That would include support for the Argentins proposal to ex pel the Soviets from the league. . . m jraris,. Premier Edouard Daladier Da-ladier In a speech to the chamber of deputies, denounced Russia as an aggressor, expressed hope that "even In npm lofmar, tory" there would be protests, and promised Finland the full. aid and support of France. ' In Istanbul there was a vigor ous press campaign against alleged alleg-ed Nazi propaganda activities of German Ambassador Franz Von Papen, and mounting anxiety over me possiDinty or future Russian expansion in the Balkans. In Berlin, Nazi authorities sud denly opened up with a signifi cant blast of criticism against the Scandinavian . countries, , which have been most alarmed by the Finnish war. ' RESERVE HEAD HERE SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 8 (U.r: Col. Jere Baxter, former commander of the army post at Narragansett Bay, R. I., arrived ar-rived today to take command of organized U. S. army reserve ac tivities in the Third military area including Idaho, Utah, Montana, Mon-tana, Nevada and Wyoming. Baxter succeeded Col. Owen It. Meredith, transferred to the San Francisco presidio. MUSIC SOCIETY MEETING The Pro-Musica society will meet Monday evening at 8 o'clock in room 270 C, ' B. Y. U. Mrs. Allie Clark has the program pro-gram In charge. A : - WORKERS ALLIANCE The Workers' Alliance, Provo local, will meet tonight at 7:30 In the city court room. John 11. Edward3, chairman, will be in charge. i v Na Maud's Call The Herald If you do not receive your llrz. promptly, rail TLo UareU. t :: ; 42, before 7 rv. i.-j. C y, c 13 a tn. Sundays, &1 a copy v . be delivered to yea. PTtrQ.2 Tiny y-r-r-i rrtn -.T-i tvt-, "l-nvirra iliAUJU X'lVU KsL lO F1 n U INDIAN JETS Early Morning Crash . Takes Place Near . . , City Limits A 59-year-old Indian, Fred Wall, of Cedar City, was fatally injured at 1:30 this morning' when struck by a northbound automobile driven driv-en by Miss Elaine Ferguson, 27, of American Fork, as he was walking on highway 91 just north , of the Provo , river bridge. Wall was rushed by officers to the Utah Valley hospital, where he died at 4:50 a. m. of a basal skull fracture, fracture of the left forearm and left leg, porrll.Io fracture of the spine, and internal inter-nal injuries. 21st Fatality His death marked the twenty-first twenty-first traffic fatality in Utah conn-ty conn-ty this year, as compared with. 18 for the entire year of 11Z Whether or not the fatality will be charged against Irovo'a record was problematical at a late hour today, as it could rot be determined conclusively whether wheth-er the acciden scene was Inside or outside the city limits. Wall, a pine nut peddler, v.! was staylni- at a nenrbv t?u--t camp?' was vlastseen at lUverid cafe about midnight. He reportedly report-edly had been drinking, and wis looking for his cabin. Miss Ferguson, a teacher at tho Vineyard school, told officers did not see Wall until he threw up his arms Just as her car crathfd Into him full force. Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Georee Lovely n evidence at hand the accidmt was unavoidable. Peddling lfne Nuts Wall, who in rpp-ltPiwi f Indian reservation six miles from Santa Clara but had been living at Cedar City, was peddling pine nuts here with his unn.in.l n nr Harley Bishop. They were accompanied accom-panied here by their wives. Wall had become separated from Bishop Bish-op about 8 p. m., officers reported. The victim In survived v. Wifc, Mabel Wall, and six children, Virginia, Harry. Kenneth. AUrn and John, all of Cedar City, and Mrs. Kathleen W. Bishop, of Moccasin, Moc-casin, Arizona. Sheriffs officers this mornln contacted William Palmer, Indian agent at Cedar City, who k:ii h wwuia scna a man to Provo lato today. to get the body. Sheriff John 3. Evans ami Deputy Loveless made the first investigation. Deputy Ed. Cl.trlc and Police Officer Fred Adamnon further Investigated this morning. morn-ing. . This Day. HORN Girl, to Harold B. and llannwh Rosenblum Leven, Thursday, Utah Valley hospital. Boy, to Curtis and Allie Itowm Oberhansley, today, Utah Valley hospital. AUKT IIET "I hate war tlnw. In thtw o l' o ytmr ri' Ig'il.f r don't gxt nwul fit j'os for talkln a!ott thlnx t! U ala't l.'.r fr I,-; -.V' DEATH NEAR RIVER BRIBSE i |