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Show DESK CHAT BY TlIK EDITOR In a menage to contributors contribu-tors who request front - page position for their news items, the Lake Crystal (Minn.) Tribune says there is no one front pAe in the Tribune of The Weather UTAH: Partly cloudy tonight, Saturday and Sunday; showers or snow flurries probably tonight; colder north portion tonight. Maximum temp., Thursday .. 68 Minimum temp., Thursday . . 2S fice, "Our rag-es," states the Tribune, "are numbered from one to eight, .md up, and the articles appearing1 on page one, as a ru'e, are placed there for their importance or new. value. "If thos who ak and require re-quire front pige position will commit a sensational murder, mur-der, hop off to Reno in a stolen car, or start a fire in the downtown district, the editor promises front page position; otherwise the news contributor. must be content with pages two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight." There have been more than one suggestion brought to the desk lately, that Provo's dog population is becoming a nuisance. nuis-ance. It's getting near that time of the year when people who take a pride in planting things will be plagued by loose dogs running wild at night through gardens and back , yards. Complaints to this effect have already been heard. One subscriber whose ? !eep has Lven much disturbed lately by stray dogs in hi? neighborhood, wants to know if there isn't a city ordinance requiring owners of dogs to keep the pets fastened at night. ' . Well, if there is such a law cn the books, it's one of a number of ordinances that isn't being enforced, anyway. --cOo A philologist who has been invesiig-itinjj the speed at which various languages are spoken, reports that French is the ir.cot rapid language in the world with ZZO syllables a ir.ir.ute. Japanese comes next, with 210 syllables per rein -'trr and then German, with 253. English is, comparatively, com-paratively, a slow drawl, with crJy 220 syllables a minute. But the slowest speakers of all are certain Polynesians, who utter only SO syllables a minute in their everyday conversation. con-versation. MERRY GO-ROUND A Dill Picture of Wfcat' Glzz On la National Affxln By naxw ftasjox rOBIST a. XIX earner's Joviality Missing As Presidential Doom Sags in Local Tests, But Hell Fight It Out Up To Convention, Determined To Stop 3rd Term; Wallace Going Ahead With Purse of Farm , Credit Agency's Old G carriers; carri-ers; Borah's Secretary Gets Job With Successor; Mrs. Borah Lives Quietly. WASHINGTON F-rir.jj U In the air tut there la little lilt these Lxy In th heart of Vice President Presi-dent Jack Garner. He U la distinctly nMufd frame at .mind and not tie usual jovial self. About th Senate he keeps pretty much to hirr.aelf and does rjol oh wtia members and news-rr.f news-rr.f n tn t.e used to da. Reason for the chtr.re la the sad state cf hlM presidential boom. Irjkfe fact la tiiat It Is sagging t.':y. Launchi with an astutely tr..-Liced puUlctty aplaah several mocLha a; a. the campaign ha fa:l to fit off the ground. National Na-tional and state Democratic leader?, lead-er?, the tcya who really decide the tlxie. are afcunrJr.g the Carre Car-re r t.. !-..! tn. VhUe It la stia roi'nr. it's not gsing anywhere. Enface cf thia ta in the news paper pcila held In various parts j cf the country. hlch invariably j rat earner far cjwa Li the choice t cf local Democratic chief. The recent mock primary In Cecrgta. in which he got cut IT vot ti against more than SCO for P.c-0-wveIt. ai a n.ot her T-l-c i:: jjtralicn cf the cocl-cm cocl-cm t : iri him. IJ-jt n h '.e much of the Inner zip cf the CtTT.er drive fcaa evaporate!, he personally la still d;erTr.ir.S to se the fight out to the end. The primary objective cf Gar- r.er candidacy la to atop a third j term. At the atart it was more I a "sto? Ilooaeve If movement j C-zUaued ca Tz;t 3, Sec Z FIFTY-FOUPwTH YEAR, NO. 17K nnnnn nn CELEBRATION COMMITTEES APPOINTED Initial Plans Under Way For July 4th Festival Here Committee chairmen to head the many phases of Provo's Pro-vo's 1940 Independence day celebration were appointed at a meeting of the Provo July Fourth Celebration corpora tion at the chamber of com merce room Thursday night. reports Clayton Jenkins, secretary-treasurer. secretary-treasurer. President H. Grant I vine presided at the meeting. Named chairmen were: G. W. Mclennan, horse racing; Dr. D EHdon Beck, parade: K. K. Welzht. bands: A- Sherman Chris- tensoo. stadium show: Aura C Hatch, advertising' and publicity; r. 1 Ashton. official program; S. V. RusselL concessions; Mark D. Eggertsen. girls beauty contest; IJerr.us Bills boat races; Phyllis Robinson Brown, children's e porta; Fire Chief Scott Thompson, street deccrmtiona, and Chief of Police Guy F. Chris tense n. traffic and policir.g'. . Arpointmfnt of the personnel of the varioue committees wiU be made by the chairmen and the executive committee, compose iL-o Preident Ivihs. Vice Presidents LeRoy J. Olsen. Jack D. Brau-ngel Brau-ngel and Frank T. ReynolS, and Secretary-Treasurer Jenkins. The board accepted the resignation resigna-tion of Allan D. Johnson and Mel D. Close from the directorate, and elected G. W. McLennan and Mark D. Eggertsen to fill their terms of two years and one year, respectively. Next meeting with committee chairmen and executive committeemen commit-teemen invited, will be held Tuesday Tues-day night. THREE LYCEUM ' PROGRAMS SET For the second time during the 1922-40 season, there will be three outstanding programs on the Brigham Young university-community university-community concert a saociatlon series during one' week, all three of these being evening performances, perform-ances, when Carl Van Doren, current cur-rent Pulitzer prize winner for his "Benjamin Franklin." comes Monday Mon-day evening, March 11. Dr. Ethan Celt on. author, and authority on the European situation, cn Wednesday. Wed-nesday. March 13. and Rudolph Ganx. pianist, conductor, and composer com-poser appears with the B. Y. U. symphony orchestra on Thursday, March 1. Spanish Fork High School To Present Annual Opera r AfW m Stores Pledge Cooperation In Spring Opening Window Displays, Style Shows, Prizes, Special Stock of Merchandise Widespread backing; of Pro vo's spring opening celebra tion March 15 was announced today by William R. Firmage, publicity chairman, who sub mitted a list of merchants taking part in the event. Merchants listed below will participate In from one to all five of the spring opening features special window displays, awarding merchandise prizes of from $2 to Jo, featuring "hot-shot"' specials for March 16 selling, staging style shows, and putting on openhouse programs. Stores Lifted Utah Office Supply, Myrle Dress Shop, Walgreen's, Royle's Radio and Appliance. Peck Electric. Gloria's Shop Granite Furniture, Oscar Carlson's. Larson Studio, utaa vaney Glass and Paint, Maycock Appliance, Gessford'a, Hedqulst Drue Store No. 1. Shriver'a. ButJer's, Vitality Shoe. Mitch ell's Jewelry. Keeleys. Stevens. K. W. Woolworth's Lewis Ladies Store. Mose Lewis. Ilenriod'a I. G. A, Sanitary Market, S. IL Kress company, Morrison Auto Supply. nosana fanop. Mountain Fuel Sup ply company. Flrmage's. H - J. -C. Pnny company" Sears Roebuck. Western Auto Supply company Morton Jewelry. Leven's, Ileindselman Jewelry, The Boot- erle. Cockrell and Jones. Petite Shop, Ercanbrack'a, Reed's Rlte- ny. David's, Chiistensen's. Mul let Jewelry, Firestone Auto Sup ply: Consolidated Waeon and Ma chine company, Dlxon-Taylor-Rus-sell company Thornton Drtur. Dalebout'a Bakery. Stephen Bee Hardware, Fletcher's, Bonnett- Vacher, City Drug, Safeway Sores, Thriftway Stores, Hulsh Electric. Taylor Brothers. Bennett's, and Gamble's. The spring opening will be In augurated at 7 p. m. March 15 with a fireworks salute at the lot just north of the fire station. Four lO-lnch. teerial flash and sound bombs and eight 10-inch aerial color bombs will be fired by Thomas Beesley of the American Ameri-can Legion. . Immediately thereafter the Dix on Junior high band will olav In the business district. Provo Contractor Gets Boulder Job vcmon s. l oiDoe, provo con tractor was low bidder for con sirucuon or a hleh school at Boulder City. Nev according to wro received Thursday by Mark iwue. manager of the intermoun isan branch. Associated General contractors of America. The Bureau of reclamation open ca me oias at Boulder City. .i'Ar,isn FORK With a cast cf 125 the annual opera, "The Student Stu-dent Prince." will be presented by the Spanish Fork high school to- nignt and Saturday night in the local auditorium. Director-general of the musical production is F. J. Faux, veteran music Instructor at the schooL He is ably assisted by Miss Javne Evans, in charge of staging and dramatics; Miss Olive Thaxtori. is coaching the dancing: Miss Zina. Johnson In charge of the stage settings and art decorations; "I as Peggy La r sen is student di rector; Principal Loren A. Anderson, Ander-son, business manager. Tnere are more than 100 stu dents In the choruses and 23 who have speaking parts. Cast in the leading roles are Mlsa Llllle Stew art as Kathle, and JaV Taylor. In the tile role as Prince Karl Franz. The opera has four acts and a prologue, requiring- four stage set- ur.gs. - PROVO, UTAH COUNTY; UTAH, FRIDAY, I mi nMn n Ml I ni l i I. . ; Peace Efforts Gain Headway, JnnsJksk For Moderate Terms More Definite Negotiations. Will Show if Hope of Settlement Rests . On Firm Ground; Finn Leader in Berlin ' . . ,.. . , By JOG ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign New Editor A vigorous Scandinavian appeared likely today to forcq m the war between Germany; Both Great Britain and materials to the" Finnish fighting front in order to keep the Red army occupied, and thus bolster Germany's fight against the Allied blockade. But, at Stockholm, Finnish and Russian sources said to Uote Dy Senate Favors Extension Of Hatch Act . WASHINGTON, March 8 (EEVM The Senate today turned back by 49 to 28. In an attempt to prevent extension or me iiaicn -clean pontics" pon-tics" act to state employes paid from federal funds.' . The action came when It defeat ed an amendment by Sen. Franei.1 T. Matoney,- D.; Conn which woaf nave aeait a aeatn Diow to ,ine pending bill to extend the act to such employes. Maloney proposed to strike out the section of the bill that would bring federally-paid state payrollers under the act and also the section under which the civil eervice commission would administer ad-minister the act. I Defeat of Maloney'a amend ment virtually Insured passage of the extension program. ' Proponents of extension, led by Sen. Carl M. Hatch, D., N. M argued that the government hae a perfect right to set up standards governing the use ox money It furnishes to states. Opponents, Including a sizable bloc of south ern senators, branded It uncon stitutional and a violation of state's rights. manager Returns From Convention Wendell C. LaBrache. manager or the Sears Roebuck and com pany store here, today had return' ed from a 10-day trip to the mid dlewest during which he attended the annual - full-week conference of Sears Roebuck managers and executives at Chicago. Approximately 1200 attended the conference, 650 of them be ing retail store manager and the balance staff officers and execu tives, Mr. LaBrache reported. ' Business meetings were held during mornings, afternoons and evenings, with President T. J Carney, General R. E. Weod. chairman chair-man of the board, and D. M. Nel son, executive vice president heading head-ing the conference. 1 1 Ways and means of bettering the service of the Sears Roebuck stores and the quality of merchandise merchan-dise so that greater benefits may be passed on the consumer formed form-ed the basis for discussion at many of the meetings. Mr. La Brache said. . : Company officials are eenuine- ly optimistic regarding business prospects for 1940, although con ditions may be affected either by a prolonged European war or by results of the presidential election. 1 The year 1039 was reported as the best years in Sears history. Mr. LaBrache went from Utah to Chicago by train with some 100 other western store managers. Following the Sears Roebuck con ference, he went to Michigan and oougni a new car. Driving home to Utah was any thing but pleasant, he reported. In Illinois he encountered heavy fogs and slippery roads. He went through Kansas in the wake of a terrific wind that had felled trees and wrought all kinds of havoc, and at Denver he hit a blizzard that brought the worst snowstorm in the city's history. Traffic was paralyzed for hours in the Colo rado city, he reported. 5 , campaigh'for peace in Finland decisions of utmost importance and the Allied powers. France have been sending war cut into Russia's ability to -day that "peace feelers" had been put out and that more definite ne- gotlations might . show whether there was hope of a settlement as an alternative to more : intensive hostilities - that might - easily spread tq other North European countries. - v . Finn Chief In Berlin In these circumstances. Per Svlnhufud former Finnish president, presi-dent, arrived In Berlin on a . mission mis-sion which Nazi sources said concerned con-cerned private business in Italy, but which aroused speculation as to whether the Finns might ask Germany 1 to Intercede with Moscow Mos-cow for moderate peace terms. Reports also were current that Finnish Foreign , Minister V.. A. Tanner was enxoute to Berlin.- The Nazis announced .their foreign minister, min-ister, 'Joachim Von Rlbbentrop, .-ill go to Rome Saturday. --. Germany presumably would be interested in ending the conflict m Finland, In order' to facilitate the flow of needed supplies from Russia to the Nazi war machine. The Finns, however, have emphasized empha-sized that they would accept only "honorable" terms for peace, and it was understood reliably that no definite demands or counter-demands have yet been formulated. The Finns, meanwhile, reported that the Red army attack continued con-tinued on seiaral fronts, but without with-out gains. Today's communique reported 2,400 ' Russians killed In fighting on the Karelian Isthmus and the eastern front. . Today's feature of the war in the west was that Great Britain unexpectedly called another 250.- 000 men of 23 years of age to the colors and 300.000 more (24 years old) were registering for service. The government-published budget estimates of ' $2,800,000,000 for prosecution of the war. ' The British war ministry an-( an-( Continued on .Page Six) OPERA IS READY AT SPRlNGliLLE Sf KINGVTLLE The Spring- vme nign scnooi opera, "The Beg gar student," . will be presented Friday and Saturday nights In the school auditorium under the direction of Carl O. Nelson. Ber- nice Park is dramatic director and iaa tiorrman. In charge i of . the dancing, and Miss Shurtliff, cos tume airecior. a matinee was presented Thursday afternoon. Jtseautuui melodies are . found throughout the opera. The leads are capably handled by Melba Merritt, promislner soprano and Ferron Heaton, with a fine tenor voice. Other principals are Arnold Barney, -LaVar Davis. Winifred Garnlck, Ina Caldwell, Dorothy ivan scnaack, Lula Fox. Bob Pierce, and Don Humphrey. Yvonne' Childs is in charge of advertising; Glen Turner, art and scenery, assisted by David Aile- man, student. ' ' There are 100 well trained stu dents in the cast . Scandinavians to Hear Missionary Elder Lynn Nelson of the Second Sec-ond ward, recently returned from the Canadian L. D. S. mission, will be the speaker at the meet ing of the Scandinavian I D. S. organization Sunday , morning at 10:30 in, the Seminary building. Elder Nelson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nelson. Solos will be sung by Mrs. W. J. Lewis and the choir. MARCH 8, 1940 1 . I I JVJUl 12 PROVO RIVER PROJECT GETS $1,250,000 Efforts of Rep. Robinson Robin-son Recognized v In -House Action . WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) A 5118,578,187 interior devartment appropriation bill including $1,250,000 for work on Utah's Deer Creek irrigation project -today had the approval of the house of representatives. . V ' " The bill was passed late yesterday yester-day without a record vote. - The Deer Creek appropriation was $500000 over estimates made by President Roosevelt in his original orig-inal budget message to congress The Increase came by - virtue of house 'adoption, just' before final passage of the bill, of, an amendment amend-ment , presented by . Rep. J. Will Robinson, D.; Utah; . Robinson's amendment had ap proval of the bureau of budget, which had okayed the additional allotment after the Utah congressman congress-man conferred . with President Roosevelt . upon his return from his Caribbean cruise. Robinson told the house the additional ad-ditional $500,000 will be 5 used to start construction of the $2,000 -000 Duchesne tunnel, ' part of the Provo 'river' project, which" wuTdi- vert water for irrigation and sup plement and Salt Lake City's municipal water supply. Another amendment adopted by the house at the last minute was one by Rep. James F. Van Zandt, R., Pa., prohibiting use of any interior in-terior department funds to ' pay anyone who is not a citizen or has not declared .his intention to become be-come a citizen. E. O. Larson, engineer in charge of the Deer Creek project, reports mac with the additional S500.000 appropriation it should be possible w carry on tne uuchesne turmel unit on schedule. ' - - The contractor for the tunnel unit probably will not require more than $500,000 in'any one year inasmucn as the total cost will be about $2,000,000 and the period of construction, between, four and five years. . The balance of the appropriation wui oe usea. to carry on contracts arreaay let, and there may possi- Diy oe a smau surplus for the tun nel unit. ale Glee Club Concert Slated The annual concert of the Male Glee Club of Brigham Young high school has been set for Wednesday Wednes-day evening March 20 in College hall.- .. - The concert will be . under direction di-rection of William F.. Hanson, assistant as-sistant professor of music. The concert program will also include selections by assisting artists. ' 7 ENGINEER" DD2S 7 ROOSEVELT, Utah, March 8 (HE) Funeral services were conducted con-ducted here today for George E. Stewart, 64, first Utah mine oper ator to successfully . work hydrocarbon hydro-carbon properties. Stewart died Tuesday. . ... Final Bulletins LONDON, March 8 (U.R) Alfred Salter, Laborite member mem-ber Of parliament, said today that President Roosevelt had sent Undersecretary of State cause he had received a document purporting1 to contain terms on which Germany was prepared to discuss peace. .', - BERLIN, March 8 (U.R) Ribbentrop will proceed to Rome Saturday for a brief visit, the official German News Agency D. N. B. said today.. SALT LAKE CITY, March fifty delegates met today in Association of . Utah Fairs, to schedule embracing 14 fairs. COMPL3TF3 UNITED PRESS TJCMSG R APR NEWS SERV1CB And What Does Papa George Say Now? i r 5l Mary Cohan, estranged irom her famous lather, George M. Cohan, since her elopement with a banjo player 12 years ago, gazes fondly at her new husband. George Ranken, upon their return to New York city after their t marriage by a justice of the peace. Re's an accordion Dlaver. Finland Prepared To Fight To A Finish By EDWARD W. BEATTIE, STL. 7 HELSINKI. Finland, March 8 U.R) Finland is prepared to fight to a finish rather than accept peace terms dictated by Russia, it was indicated today. : ".. , , Finns looked to their Scandinavian neighbors and to the ; ; " tallies- to .-give them- the aid Fight Continues to Sava Convict From Firing Squad SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 8 (HE) The scheduled day of exe cution before a firing squad, for John Markham, 24, convicted mur derer, will pass tomorrow with attorneys still fighting to save his life. - Judge Oscar W. McConkie sen tenced . Markham to be shot to death .by a squad of riflemen in the Utah prison yard on March 9, overruling a jury recommenda tlon for life imprisonment. Defense attorneys secured a stay of execution pending an appeal to the , state supreme court.. The court Is not expected to rule until October and Markham still has recourse re-course to the state boad of pardons. par-dons. "We have protests from persons in all walks of life against the execution of this man,'' said De fense Attorney Alke T. DiamanL Diamant said the defense fought only to save Markham's life: and not to free him. They wish to commute the sentence of life Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. The defense contended contend-ed at Markham's trial that be was below normal mentality. He had served a previous sentence for burglary. - The - Jury convicted Markham of first decree murder In the death- of J.. G. Smith, 3, lunch stand proprietor, in a robbery, rob-bery, Nov. 25, 1939. WORKERS ALLIANCE Provo local G950, Workers Alli ance of America, will meet tonight to-night at 7:30 in the city courtroom, court-room, reports Florence M. .Keel, secretary. All members are urged to attend : as Important i matters are to be discussed. New mem bers will be initiated and receive their books and buttons. Sumner Welles to Eurone be Foreicrn Minister Joachim Von 8 (U.R) One hundred and the annual convention of the outline a 1910 county fair PRICE FIVE CENTS if 'N 77 would enable them to hold off the . I Red army. They commented bit terly . the ' Russian terms ' were harsher than those the rejection of which last fall brought on the war. The government's position was It had always sought . an honorable peace, but the peace, "offered" by Russia was not an honorable one. If Russia cared to make proposals a free country could accept, it was said, Finland would welcome them. Demands' Inaoceptable Reports Russia had demanded Hango, on the southwest coast; the Karelian Isthmus and the Lake Ladoga region, were received here from abroad and were declared to be inacceptable. The cession of Hango, particularly, was said to be impossible in a , negotiated peace. It, is more than 200-miles from the Russian frontier. To turn It over to Russia it was held, would be to make a puppet state of Finland. It was realized the Russians now had the initiative in this war, and that Viipur must fall. But it was said the . Finns were holding the Russians on all fronts except the Viipur! one, and the.VHpurl offensive offen-sive was taking a terrible toll of , Russian lives. Appointments to Be Made Later On Appointment of distribution system employes for .the Provo municipal , electric department has been postponed until the lat ter part or next week, reports J. Hamilton "Calder, chairman of the utilities board. . G. E. Gabby, distribution en gineer, will arrive here Wednes day, and he will be given oppor tunity .o interview prospective employes before appointments are made, Mr. Calder said. The utilities board has rone over the recommendations of the examining board headed bv Citv Engineer E. A. Jacob. AUNT HET DT BOBEBT QCIIXKN "We don't vis.lt much at , night. The women I'd like to visit don't like tobacco, and 1'a would as soon be in Jail as tqend an evenln' where he can't smoke." |