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Show DESK CHAT bt the rxuToi: Taking- about traffic and .:. hrir.s to rr.Ind an incident in-cident about bicycles ridden ty littie children that shows it's a wonder that more accidents acci-dents of thu kind do not take place on our i reels. A short time ajro one of the toys around the desk came in to tell about having seen five kid? all ridir.sr cn one bicycle r n one of Provo streets. There were two on the rear mud jruard, one (the biggest ore) on the teaU e?3 hardly I : : enough to reach the pedals; ped-als; one on the handle bars and number five sitting on the bar between the seat and the handle bars. The party of five was riding- down the street with childish glee ami blissful abandon, unworried of lurking lurk-ing dangers at the intersections. intersec-tions. When the five-passenger bicycle reached Third South, which 13 also Highway 01, our observer wondered if the younsr driver knew enough to stop. He didn't the kida went right on across the busily travelled street. crossing right behind a lunf- berir.g truck going east. 0O0 Our observer stood motion less, until the kids were safe ly across Third South, and breathed a sigh of relief to su them still safe. Children of that age wandering out by themselves, are not mindful of the dangers that arise un expectedly in this stream lined traffic age. In regard to the city's pav- msr program, mentioned in yesterday's column, there is one more improvement angle that should not" go unmen-tioned. unmen-tioned. Along with the street paving, pav-ing, the city has carried on an extensive concrete curb and rutter construction program. In 10C3, 41 blocks were installed, in-stalled, rr.st of.it in, the r.orthealt section. This kind of work will continue as fast as property owners are ready for it, says Commissioner J. P. McGwire, in charge of streets arji public improvements. improve-ments. - r 1 MERRY GO-ROUND A Dally Pic tor of What's Going Oa la NatlouU Affain Br DHXW FTAJELSOX a BOEXST 8. AlITTi Ma.ia 'Ult To White House Hay Mean Action on Sweeping Sweep-ing Gean-up of Navy; Democrats On Naval Committee Com-mittee Paly Ball With Bigwigs Big-wigs To Pigeonhole Bill; McNutt "Purists" Trying To Clean Up 2 Per Cent Club Before Law Does It; Two Artists At Once Doing FDR's Portrait While He Works On At His Desk. WASHINGTON That visit " which Representative Uelvtn J. Maaa. of Minnesota, made to the wtate House the other clay was not a social calL The hard-hitting World War flyer u ranking Republican member mem-ber of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and the clue .to his talk with Roosevelt la that bill for drastic reorganization of the Navy vhicn has been gathering coDeba In the committee. Roosevelt favors the measure and so does - Maas himaeir an old foe of tureaucrats and red tape. But Naval braashats and certain Democratic bigwigs on the committee do not. The braashats want the bill thtrlrt4 on the plea that the Navy wui reform ltsIf. And the Democratic Dem-ocratic members of the committee commit-tee are secretly playing ball with them by stalling action on tie legislation. Ttus is directly counter to the President's ideas. He wants a vigorous broom applied ap-plied to the obsolete and inefficient inef-ficient Navy system, and believes cn only way it can be done is ty eor.greasaonal act- TTut a why he summoned Maas to &s him to get behind the reorganization measure and to rorce action cn it- Tfcars right down my alley. Mr. ITeiidenV responded Maas. "I'm for a sweeping clean-up and modernization of the Navy, an.i I II go flown the line wlta you 10O per cent on that prop-( prop-( Continued oc Pae Three! The Weather TJTAH Saavr fhiTTW or ahowera tcrciht Ad Sa turd,' " ; little thjv.x in temperature. 5fiimna teenp. Tbantday . . 49 ZUalraana tecap. Thursday Z? FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, r3 FILM COUPLE TO BE SAFE 110W Clark Gable, Carole Lombard Delayed By Bad Roads ENS EN ADA, Lower Calif., Feb. 2 U.F Clark Gable and Carole .Lombard, film stars, were reported safe today at the La Brea gun club, 24 miles south of here, after the fa mous couple were feared, to have been stalled or lost in the gale-swept country of rugged lower California., John Husson. proprietor of the El Morro cottages in Ensenada, drove to the srun club this morning and reported seeing Gable, " who said. "No. we didn't get stuck, but the roads were so terrible It took us eleven and a half hours to make the trip.'' Friends Aaxlots Cable and hia wife left HatUe Hamilton's ranch. 115 miles south of here, for Enaenada yesterday at 8 a. m, and had been unreported unre-ported since. They had expected to-arrive at Enaenada by mid-afternoon yesterday. When no word was received of their safe arrival. friends and M-C-M studio representatives repre-sentatives were anxious for their safety. A searching party attempted to locate them at the La Brea gun club last night, but due to torren tial rains, the search was called off. The storm subsided today sufficiently to permit the. search to be resumed. Two representative of Gable's tudio. Otto Winkler . and. Erie. Carpenter, left by automobile for the La Brea gun ciud. 24 mues from here. They said they believed Cable and his wife. Was Lombards may have gone there when the clay roads became impassable. There is no telephone at the gun club. Fear Car Accident Winkler said he was confident Gable and MIas Lombard were able to take care of themselves in any emergency, but - he felt they hcxild be located in view of the fact they had not been heard from since 8 a. m. yesterday when they left a ranch 113 mues south or here for Enaenada. The road from the Hamilton ranch, where Gable and MUs Lom bard had been vacationing, is un- surfaced clay which becomes dan gerously slippery when wet. In several areas it cuts through canyons can-yons which become flooded during storms. The chief danger to the film couple, Vlnkler said, was the pos sibility that they may have had an automobile accident, or that their station wagoa may have be come stalled in one of the flooded canyons or washes. EUREKA YOUTH IS REARRESTED NEPHI Twenty-year-old WU mer Hutchinson of Eureka, charg ed with the murder of a 14-year-old Provo boy in May of ' 1937 was ' releasea from custody on a writ of habeas corpus Thursday and rearrested five minutes later on the same charge, the whole pro cedure being because of a legal technicality. V . Immediately-after Judge Will I. Hoyt had issued the writ. Deputy Sheriff R. E. Winn, armed with a new warrant, arrested the youth. A few minutes later. Judge Hoyt, sitting as a committing magistrate arraigned Hutchinson, committed him to the county Jail without bond and aet the date of hia preliminary pre-liminary hearing for February 8 at 2 p. m. The judge said he issued the writ because Hutchinson was unlawfully unlaw-fully arraigned before Fred Ditt-mer, Ditt-mer, -justice of the peace in Eureka, Eu-reka, when he should have been under jursdictlon of the juvenile court. ' However, the case now will not go to juvenile court due to the quick action of Judge Hoyt in complying with the defense attorney's attor-ney's request for immediate arraignment. ar-raignment. In Utah courts it Is held, a district judge may sit as a committing magistrate in felony cases involving a juvenile, a function func-tion not permitted a justice of the peace. Judge Hoyt said he had not fixed bail for Hutchinson due to absence from the courtroom of District Attorney At-torney Eis J. Pickett. i REPORTED i f. I ' III f 1 1 I I 1 1. I III I ' f. I I 1 'V : . .jr ,, 1 1:1 t I 1 . - -- - . . . , iLAi ; , , . w - . NO. 1460 PROVO, In Wake of Red Retreat--S cene of Destruction , y - , . ; i . ..' ,, : ; -: i. ' '. - vr ' . - Hr- , - I . r ' - - . Huge supply trucks of the Russian 44th Divlalon, their motors stilled and their crews dead,-' abandoned on the Suomaasalml front when Finnish soldiers wiped out thousands of Russian invaders. Dead Russians Rus-sians lie in a ditch alongside the road, scene of their last stand. Photo by Eric Calcraftm Acme staff photographer with the Finn . PROVO DISTRICT LEADS IN -AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION Precipitation reports, covering the four month period from October Octo-ber 1 from .five stations. In central Utah, disclose a greater amount of snow and rainfall at lower ele vations, than at higher altitudes. according to T. Frank Wentz, Provo river commissioner. ' The report, reproduced below. StaUon '- 1940 1939 1938 HeberCity .....4.15 7.10 6.43 Provo Qty 6.49 79 4.67 Salt Lake City. ;5.94 6.57 5.35 Park City ......4.16 .8.18 6.86 Snake Creek . . . 5.57 9.74 .13 Average ...... . .5.26 7.79 ' 6.49 Percent Normal . 74 110 - .02 UTAll LAKE Jan. 31 - Year Gage. -Acre Feet 1940 6.56 1939 5.44 1938 .;....'... 6.10 1937 7.74 1936 10.04 1935 9.60 297.640 . 379.800 330.700 216,800 87.600 103.500 221.400 1934 7.67 SNOW COVER JANUARY 31 . ' ' HEAD DANIELS EAST PORTAL Strawberry Ridge Depth Water Depth Depth Depth Water Year. Inches .Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches 1940 ......25.0 6.0 22.7 6.29 37.4 10.06 1939 : 32.6 7.0 27.6 6.11 46.2 11.60 1938. ......25.1 . 6.38 17.9 - 4.26 35.7 10.21 1937 54.0 11.80 . 31.7 7.58 49.9 . 13.21 193S ......32.3. 7.43 .30.2 8.16 49.7 14.81 1935 35.3 9.57 . . 1934 ......26.7- , 6.95 . . 1933 45.0 9.80 . 17 Yr. Avg. 32.0 8.0 ". Metropolitan Water Board To Organize Here Saturday Election of officers of the Provo Pro-vo metropolitan water board for a two-year - term win t held Saturday at 7 p. at a public meeting in the city commissioners' commission-ers' room, announces Jacob Coleman, Cole-man, secretary and director. Officers whose terms have ex pired are Alex Hedquist, president; presi-dent; Dr. F. S. Harris, vice presi dent; Mr. Colerfran. secretary and director; J. Hamilton Calder, comptroller, and Victor j' J. Bird, treasurer. . - , -: The regular seven-man board Is composed. of Mr. Coleman, Dr. Harris, 'James A. Brown, James Watson, o. R. Thomas, ;r. E. Allen and Commissioner" 2 Jesse Haws. Mr. Allen Wednesday was named by the city commission as a member of the board to succeed Mr. Hedquist, whose term expired. O. R. Thomas, - whose term also expired, was reappointed. re-appointed. This Day. BORN Twin girls, to Lawrence Wells and Mary Aim Edwards Duke, at the Sarah Barnett home Thursday Thurs-day afternoon. , i- Boy, to E. II. and Amy, Jackson Berrett of Pocatello, , Ida Jan. 29. Girl, to Jean R. and LaVern Harris Paulson, today at San Luis Obispo, Calif. . Girl, to John and Evelyn Kelly Brooks of Pocatello, Ida., Thurs day night, - . ; UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 n 1 !i nmi army. (Acme Telephoto.) - - - , , , ' G shows a comparison of the precipitation precip-itation for the four, month period for every year, from 1934 to 1940. Also shown are comparative fig ures for Utah lake,'' Strawberry reservoir, . and snow cover - reports for Strawberry ridge, east : portal and the head of Daniels canyon. v ..J Nor- Nor 1937 1936 1935 1934 ma! 'mal 7.11 4.44 7.08 49 5.74 57 6.54 6.60 8.58 6.54 92 4.C0 , 2.51 2.83 5.14 6.50 : 4.32 " .61 6.37 5.86 5.53 8.14 9.56 7.09 65 111 107 51 58 7X7 5.01 6.17, 4.90 9.34 . 7.79 7.34 5.35 104 76 6TKAWBERRY Reservoir, Jan. 31 ' Inflow "Available - Oct. 1 " For Use Jan. 31 ' 49.240 83,960 75,240 40,500 10.290 9,530 NOVEL CONCERT HERE TONIGHT . One of the most novel organizations organ-izations existing in Utah's music circles, the Summerhays Salt Lake City Marimba Symphony; orchestra, orches-tra, will appear at the Provo tabernacle tab-ernacle at 8:15 tonight . In a benefit bene-fit concert sponsored by members of the Utah Association for the Blind, local chapter.; . . - The band, to be featured in the Life magazine soon, is the only true marimba symhony in the world. There are numerous marimba mar-imba bands, but they Include saxo phones and other Instruments. The Salt Lake marimba, to appear here has marimbas alone, according to local Blind Association officials. ; Harold W. Gretzinger, who has been Intrested in marimba music for 20 years, is conductor and or ganizer of the orchestra. Lowell Hicks, well known In Utah county, is concertmaster. Traffic Slogan Traffic Slogan of the Week. "Keep to the Right Out of Line-Out Line-Out of Life." Year ... Jan. 31 1940 5106 1939 .:.........6470 1938 6672 1937 ...........7199 1936 ..1.5042 1935 ...........4140 Social Security Checks Deceived " - SALT LAKE CITY,' Feb. 2(tt jThe .first of monthly payments under the federal old age and survivors' insurance plan were in the , hands of nearly . 150 Utahns today;- r;- ' ." ; Of 23,029 persons In the United States ; eligible for the benefits, 14,000 have been . approved for monthly payments. . The others will receive, their money in lump jsums, accoroung to uee ' n. (Jain, asistant manager 'of the" Salt ''Take City office. Most of the Utahns will be paid monthly. . ; ' Cain , said . all persons over; 65 who. have worked since the social security system started in 1937 are eligible to file applications for benefits. LIONS INSTALL ; NEW MEMBERS Provo Lions ' inducted three new members into theirclub Thursday night, ; the : introductions; being made by Aura C Hatch, membership member-ship 'committee chairman. They were r Dr. Owen Heninger, mem ber of the Utah State Hospital staff; Garn Carter, sales "manager of station KOVO. and Grant Ekins of the Utah Rock Wool Insulation company. Boy Scouts from the Lions club own sponsored troop No. 44 were guests of the club men and the program was in, charge of Tom Gessford of the. boys and girls committee. An interesting invest! ture ceremony was staged as two new scouts . were taken into the troop and merit badges were pre sented at a troop court of honor session, held in connection. ; . A visiting delegation from the American Fork club was presented with the traveling' bell trophy. President Ken Craven presided at the meeting. The members, - ac companled by their wives, attend ed the f Llons-Ecker basketball frame following the- meeting, the Provo team winning, 64 to 52. Driver Succumbs To Fume Poison SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2 (HE) John Reuel Winter, Salt Lake City ' truck driver, died here last night from carbon monoxide poisoning pois-oning suffereu Tuesday whue driving to Ogden. ' Winter was overcome by the fumes seeping into 'his truck and stopped; just south of Layton. ROOSEVELT WIDOW BURT IN CRASH NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (HE) Mrs. Edith, Kermlt Roosevelt, 78-year-old widow, of President Theodore Roosevelt, was severely shaken up today when her automobile was struck by " another car. . ' - -; The car, operated by a chauffeur, chauf-feur, spun around several ; times on the slippery pavement, throwing throw-ing Mrs. Roosevelt about the back seat. The car was damaged. STORY HOUR SATURDAY Miss Aldora ' Carter 1 will "be story teller at the Provo public library, Saturday at 2 p. ' m., it is announced. . :. ,, Ail children are invited. J 2, 1940 Ml Nil - IUIAMY NEGOTIATE. NAZI PACT Russians . Stage: Exten- sive Aerial Attack r Oh Finn Towns 7 v By JOE ALEX JIORRIS ". . U. P. Foreign News Editor The Red army renewed "a strong aerial artJ infantry at tack on the Finriish war front today," and . Rumania was reported re-ported threatening to disrupt the Balkan diplomatic front by an agreement with Nazi Germany. X . At Belgrade, where the foreign ministers of Rumania; Jugoslavia, Greece and Turkey are attending a meeting of the Balkan Entente, it was reported ' the Rumanians had demanded the Entente guar antee her frontiers against the ter ritorial claims of Hungary and Bulgaria. Unless such action Is taken and it does not, appear likely the Rumanians were described as threatening to make an agree ment with Germany, and through Berlin with Soviet Russia, whereby the Soviets would not press claims for return of the Rumanian pro vince of Bessarabia. - In return. Rumania would pledge full eco nomic co-operation with the Nazis, which Germany desires ; to frus trate the Allied economic blockade. block-ade. End of Entente- - - Such a development would mean end of the Balkan Entente. Tur key and Greece Save been swing ing' more steadily toward the Al lies. - Jugoslavia has been des perately seeking ; to .protects her strict -.-neutrality-.. a rid maintain friendly relations with Italy, which is tne ewer roe or Boisnevism in the Balkans. - Many diplomatic sources of Bel' grade saw grave danger that the presently indicated - trend ; of the Entente meeting would end in un dercover if not open rupture because be-cause of the tremendous pressure of the . European belligerents on the. small states ' of , southeastern Europe. . x - In Finland. Jthe Red army was pounding at the center of the Man nerhern line defenses on the Kare lian Isthmus again, afthough an official - communique at Helsinki said attacks had been '- repulsed tnere. and northeast of Lake La (Continued on . Page Two) THOMAS GOES TO WASHINGTON SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2 OLE) sen. Elbert D. Thomas. D., Utah, was heading, back for Washington today after a two-day visit bere following' copclusion of . Pacific coast hearings of the Senate Civil Liberties ' committee. When he left last night. Thomas said he was opposed to enactment of an embargo against Japan. The rormer University of Utah political science professor said he believed world prosperity would start re turning when peace is brought to the Orient, ''largest consuming center in the world."; , The Utah senator advocated the United States re-distribute ' to world trade channels some of the huge supply of gold and - silver now being hoarded by the govern ment In federal vaults. v Snow Carnival Qucsn Is Hamcd Miss Vivian Marshall, brunette from Calgary, Alberta, . Canada, was crowned snow queen of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university at ceremonies ceremon-ies during- a special student assem bly conducted today by the Snow Carnival committee headed . by Everett Manwaring, of Vernal, chairman. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Marshall,' Miss Marshall won the crown over 10 other candidates in an election. She . will preside at the univer sity's annual snow carnival Saturday Satur-day in Hobble Creek canyon. Com prising the carnival will be skiing. snowshowing, snow modeling,, and other events. : Miss Mitchell is a sophomore and 19 years old. She is major ing in journalism and is affiliated with the Alta Mitra social unit. Don Searle, Spanish Fork, was master of ceremonies of today's program. UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OK SALT LAO Groundhog Day -' ' As Surrealist Sees It V w v . . ' r ' it L. By NEA Service . GROUNDHOG DAY has gone modern. , Final refuge of things as they were, one . remaining link of a tradition that carries the past into the future, last sronghold of solid old stock that elected Coolidge, for instance,. the humble groundhog has fallen afoul of ; the surrealists. The surrealists still accept the substance of the groundhog legend but they reject the forml They admit that if Bre'r G. Hog sees his shadow on Feb. 2 it means six weeks more winter and if he doesn't see is, spring is here. - ' As for the form well, no groundhog ever had this kind of a form. This, if you haven't guessed It," is a surrealistic conception of a Groundhog Day weather and shadow observation. . . . - ,. -.. . ...' No right-living surrealist, of course, would use a groundhog in a Groundhog Day picture; hence the girl, . posed ty Evelyn Bertell, 1938 Cleveland beauty crown winner, i ,: i But there are hints. The pork sausage about the. wrist, for instances, in-stances, ' touches on the motif of the day. The clock is easy, too the alarm that calls hardy souls to "rise with the sun see, old Sol has his part in the surrealist, version. The. groundhog is supposed ty. tradition to emerge from his - hole wherefore the doughnut. The fork is just to let the model hold the doughnut more aaintily. The galoshes, umbrella and earmuffs are concessions to the fact that nmnnlhAv rMV' hAaamMhtnvlA riv.with . tYnt -wiLther., The. carrot is there to entice out the shadow. And the shadow Itself has a double meaning. Whether or not he's seen today, he's in there" to portray the surrealistic view of . what's; wrong with the world and other surrealists. ' ' ,'. All of which,r added to the fact that the sun did not shine tn Provo today, means that winter is over. . ...:." i SALT LAKE MAN DIES IN CAR ' Leland Walter -Jorgensen, 38, of Salt Lake City, former resident of Lake. View, was "found dead in his car on a side road, near Vineyard, late Thursday, the victim ' of car bon . monoxide asphyxiation, ac cording to . investigating officers. He had called at the home of relatives the day ' before and at that time told them he was leav ing for ' Salt Lake City. , He was born November 26, 1902 in Eureka Utah, the son of Alma and MAI in da Christensen Jorgen sen -of Lake View. His early life was spent In Provo and since reaching manhood has spent his time in farming, mining and other pursuits. He was a guide for two years in the Rainier national park. He married Minerva Jolley in trovo in xv m. He is survived by the parents. his wife,, one son, Devon: one daughter, Bethalee; two brothers, Stanley land Wesley, both of Provo; Pro-vo; five sisters, Mrs. Irene Turc- sanski of Orem; Mrs. Cleo Brown, Mrs. Ada Grossman, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Zina York, Provo; Miss Beth Jorgensen, Salt Lake City. Funeral ' services will be held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. in the Lake View . ward chapel, with Bishop August Johnson in charge. Interment Inter-ment will be In the Provo Burial park. Friends may call at the Berg mortuary, Saturday evening and at the home of the parents, Sunday, prior to the services. STOCKS NEW. YORK, Feb. 2 (L'.E Stocks edged irregularly higher in quiet : dealings today after five consecutive sessions of decline. Trading picked up . lightly. Business - news was mixed. Ward's automotive reports said outlook was -for a dip : in auto output. " Dun & Bradstreet reported a rise in retail trade this week. Rails did '. little although net in come of ' the nation's carriers for 1939 was reported at '$588,800,892 compared with" only $373,150,639 for 1938. .:-... Reflecting dull trading, a stock exchange membership Sold today at $53,000, down $6,000 from the previous transaction. Steel and aviation shares led im provement in stocks. Bethlehem ran . up a point to 74 1-8. Call The Herald If you do not w1vb vonr ITrrmJ.-! .promptly, call The Herald office, 495, before 7 p.m. week days, and 10 am. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TiUUUUKArH NJSW8 SEHVICM PRICE FIVE CENTS ') V . Mayor to Give Safety Addrcs an Mayor. Mark Anderson will deliver de-liver a brief address on traffic safety at the weekly American Quizz broadcast of the -Provo Elks lodge Saturday; night, according to T, R. Harps, chairman. The public is invited to attend the program,, broadcast over KOVO from the Elks home. The doors open 'at 8:30 and close at 9 o'clock.- The broadcast starts at 9:30.. Five .contestants will compete com-pete for $20 in merchandise orders during the projgram. One hundred forty, persons attended last week's program. , v ",.' 1 Contest Uinncr Addresses Hotary Miss Pauline Roerers. winner of the Brigham r Youne university oratorical contest sponsored bv the Provo Rotary club, delivered her ; winning , speech entitled, "War," at the rejnilar luncheon of the Rotarians at Hotel Roberts this afternoon. is - Wyman Berg presided at the meeting. Guests included Clvda 9 - w v bvq tucuiagct for the Mountain Fuel Supply company, Russell Dunlflev. field engineer for the Deer Creek project, proj-ect, and Wayne Sibbett of Britr- ham Young university.- Music was lurmsned by Miss Florian Hunt. 1 ii. ' i ' AUNT HET BY KOBERT Qt'ILLEN ER X "Cousin Ed don't nook clean since he got to win' : that electric razor. Without lather for thavin his face don't seem to get much soap.' . ... ' rl, if'. |