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Show Col I Spring Opening ' Aw a In Prom o 77 OTifU rnaaym uns mm The Weather UTAH: Generally fair tonight and Thursday; wanner tonight. Maximum . temp, Tuesday ... 43 Minimum temp, Tuesday ... IS 77 ' mi DESK C HA T BY THE EDITOR Everything comes to him who waits! So aid Confudous or it might have been Socrates. Soc-rates. Today news comes from the state capitol that the high-way high-way through Provo canyon to Heber is soon to be made passable all the way through. The state road commission included in-cluded the project in the two million dollar program submitted sub-mitted to the government for approval. - The seven-mile stretch of highway from the Utah county coun-ty line to Charleston will cost 5223,000 to rebuild and surface sur-face with gravel, besides $5,-000 $5,-000 for four miles of oilinjr. That's good news. It Is doubtful doubt-ful if another piece of bad road ever precipitated as much profanity from motorists motor-ists as this Provo canyon stretch. oOo - Definitions change from time to time, but human nature nat-ure remains just the same. What we now speak of as 'personality 'per-sonality was once referred to" as 'unmitigated gall.' oOo Now.that.the days are geU ting- longer, it becomes easy to put off more things until tomorrow than was possible in December. OUR CHANGING WORLD As Ionjr as we have younger young-er generations . . . and as long as we have 23,000,000 new people every ten. years, we r.ill have changes. Twenty-five million people idded to cur adult population bringing- tifeir " youthful viewpoint, likes and dislikes means we will have changes chang-es in our buying habits. Any business firm who does not study these advancing advanc-ing waves of progress is doomed . . . and the pity of it is that they do not realize it before it is too late. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What Going On in National " Affairs : - By DREW FKAR50.V aad ROBERT S. ALLEN Farley .Ticket in Ohio Will 0?pos FDR's Labor Act Amendments Almost Defeated De-feated Within Investigating; Committee; Chairman Smith Had toDack Down On Proposal to Curb Right to Strike; New Deal Trustees Trus-tees for Associated Gas Give Boost - to "Death Sentence." WASHINGTON Ktep your eye on Jim Farley In the turbulent Democratic presidential primary In Ohio. . . He's sot taring anything about it- but at the last minute (March II) he's going to file a "Roosevelt "Roose-velt slate" cf his own. The regular state Democratic organization has entered a ticket of third-term delegates beaded by Chairman Charles Sawyer. Farley's Far-ley's slate nominally will also be for the President, but It win take orders from JLm and not from the White House. In other words. It will be anti-third term. Farley's Ohio maneuver Is one of the moat significant political developments In months. It means that be has definitely cast his lot with the anti-third term fac-tion. fac-tion. Publlcly, Jim has ducked all questions on this issue. In enter-ins: enter-ins: the Ohio melee with a slate of his own. in direct opposition to a state organization which acted on Secret White House Instructions, Instruc-tions, he will not only declare himself but wil lopenly throw down the gauntlet to his "chief." The outcome of the Ohio fight Is certain to have far-reaching effect ef-fect on Rosevelt's plans. If the Sawyer ticket wins, the third-termers third-termers will be greatly strengthened. strengthen-ed. If Farley scores it will be a " stunning' blow to them. ' LABOR ACT J : It's a committee secret, but those sweejtr.gr National Labor Relations Act amendments recommended by the House investigators came (Continued On Page Eight) FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, J UuWUuv CANYON ROAD PROJECTIONS STATE'S OKEH Improvement To Cost $230,000; Work To Start In Summer A $2,500,000 construction program embodying improvement improve-ment of many miles of "substandard "sub-standard highway in Utah, today had been adopted by the state road commission. - According, to Preston G. Peterson of Provo, member of the commission, the portions of the nroeram in which the federal gov ernment is participating:, will be submitted Immediately to the bureau bu-reau for its approval. Bids will be called for as soon' as such. approval ap-proval Is received. Provo Canyon Highway ' Actual -construction - will - begin shortly after the beginning of the new fiscal year July 1 A major feature of the program, as far as Utah county Is concerned. concern-ed. Is a project for realignment of the Provo canyon highway. The project calls for rebuilding : and gravel surfacing 7.01 miles of road from . the -Utah . county line to Charleston at a cost of $223,000 as a federal aid project; also oiling oil-ing four miles between Deer Creek and the county line under a state project at a cost of 15000. To Oil Road Another project of local interest inter-est Is. oiling of 1.125 miles of road between Springville and Moark at $23,000. Still another Is graveling of four miles on the Tooele-Eureka road at a cost of $25,000. In addition to the vast construction construc-tion program, the commission announced an-nounced its mainte nance expenditures expendi-tures for the current calendar year will be about $1,500,000. It was indicated additional projects proj-ects will "be plsnned from time to-tiine, to-tiine, during the year, including sidewalk construction along state highways In places where it Is particularly hazardous .for pedes trtans to use the road.- - . According to the commissioners, the regular federal aid program in which the federal government provides pro-vides 70 per cent of the money and the state SO per cent, calls for a total expenditure of $1,693,000; the federal aid secondary program in which there is a similar divis ion of cost. $247,300. the federal lands program, in which the federal fed-eral government provides all the money, $263,000. ,' Also included m the vast program pro-gram adopted were six projects to be built entirely with state funds at a total cost of $132,000. The federal government has allocated al-located $193,000 for grade crossing cross-ing protection, but this program Is still in. the course of preparation. prepara-tion. . Coming Events Junior Chamber of Commerce, tonight. 7:30, Haase cafe, meeting in charge of agricultural commit tee. Speaker, Seth T. Shaw of Brigham - Young university faculty. fac-ulty. - BusineM and Profe4onl Women's Wo-men's club, Thursday, 6:30 p. Edna Mae Hedquist home, monthly month-ly dinner meeting. Speaker, Prof. Clarence S. Boyle of Brigham Young university faculty, "The Effect of Economic Conditions on Business." Provo Lodre 819. B. P. O. Elks. Thursday. 8 d. rrv. Elks home, last night for nomination of officers. SO-SO club, Thursday, 8 p. Hotel Roberts, business meeting. Directors meet at 7:30. Klwanls sons' and daughters' party. Thursday, 7 "P. m, Hotel Roberts. - NO. 174 ' f? a is1 ' " :A:' ' r?n n h - ii . Ik 1 M : Lt11 Li bvJ uvJeDg' , : Answers Call t E MORRIS II. GRAY Horris II. Gray, . . Provo Darhir, Is . Called by Death Townspeople were grieved this morning to learn of the death of Morris , H Gray, 54, well known Provo barber for 33 -years, who passed away just after midnight at a local hoslptaL Mr. Gray underwent an operation opera-tion " for stomach ulcers, Friday, and his condition . had been regarded re-garded as serious. Tuesday, he was given blood transfusions, but pneumonia developed and he. gradually grad-ually became worse until the end came, fie had suffered with the stcmach ailment for several years. Lifelong Resident A lifelong resident of Provo, he was born here Jan. 16, 1886, a son of the late William H. and Elea-nore Elea-nore Strong Gray. He received his education in Provo and as a young man, took up the barbering profession. pro-fession. Of his 33 years in business, busi-ness, he had worked 30 years for the Jones Barber shop, where he had gained a host of friends. - J . He married Mary Whlttaker July 23. 1906, in the Salt Lake temple, who, at the present time is bedfast at the family home, 208 South Second West street, due to a heart ailment. She has been confined to her room since June of Iast: year, and . her condition is regarded as somewhat critical. Mr. Gray was a faithful member mem-ber of the LD S. -church, holding the office of an elder. He had served serv-ed as chairman of the Sixth ward old folks' committee for , several years, and was president of the local barbers' union. " , - - Surviving, In addition to his widow, wi-dow, are one .son and one daughter. daugh-ter. Max Gray of Los Angeles, Calif., who is enroute home, and Mrs. Mary Beth McDonald of Salt Lake City; - one grandchild and three brothers and ' two sisters Spencer S. Gray, Salt Lake City; Wilford S. and Seymour D. Gray, Proyo; Mrs. Julia fA. Drysdale, Provo and Mrs. Estella A. Hansen of Los Angeles, who has been caring car-ing for Mrs. Gray for some time. uneral announcement will be made later by the Berg Mortuary. Fire Damages Garage Here Fire damaged a frame garage and contents belonging to T. Will Jones, 432 South Sixth West, to the extent of $200 3ust after noon today. Firemen were in control in a very short time and kept the house, " which was only eight , or ten feet away, from being seriously serious-ly threatened. - .; The loss was covered by insurance. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, . UTAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, , REVISION OF ! U. S. FOREIGN i POLICY LOOMS Finnish Capitulation To Russia Raises Many Problems f BY IIOBAItT C. MONTEE ' WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.R) State department officials offi-cials believed today that the United States might have to re-chart its foreign policy to meet new European' problems expected to develop from the Russian-Finnish peace treaty. Although there was no official comment, congressional - - spokesmen spokes-men for the administration ' de nounced the treaty as a "holdup': of Finland and as "another Hitler victory." There were expressions of hope the treaty might lead to a settlement of differences .between .be-tween Germany and the allies and criticism of the allies for falling tA-aM Finland.- ; i. -', Slany ProWerns . ' State department officials agreed privately Finnish capitulation capitula-tion to Russia probably would raise some complicated problems for the United States in the Immediate Im-mediate future. Among those immediately raised rais-ed were:..." "-. .'-- :; ;v 1. The status of the $20,000,000 export-import bank loan to Finland for' the purchase of non-military supplies. The bank previously had loaned Finland $10,000,000. . , Federal Fed-eral Loan Administrator Jesse II. Jones announced that what remains re-mains of the loan would be at Finland's Fin-land's disposal for rehabilitation an refugee work. He still considers Finland a "good risk." 2. The status of collections by various private organizations for Finnish relief and for the purchase of armaments. Former President Herbert Hoover,: head of, one of the largest organizations collecting collect-ing Finnish relief funds, declined to comment in New York. 3. Future relations between the United States and Soviet Russia. They have been seriously strained since Russian invasion of Finland last fal land resulted in the imposition impo-sition of a "moral embargo" against sale of airplanes or parts, aluminum, alum-inum, molbydenum. aviation gasoline gaso-line and other war materials to Russia. It must be decided whether wheth-er "moral embargo" will continue in effect since it originally was Invoked In-voked ;to express this government's govern-ment's disapproval of tie bombing of Finnish civilian populations. Pister Address : Slated Tonight Sponsored by the women's auxiliary aux-iliary to the Utah County Medical society, a public meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 In the women's wo-men's clubhouse, with Dr. George Fister, Ogden, president of the State Medical association, ; and W. H- Tibbals, executive, secretary, secre-tary, as speakers. . : ; Subject for . discussion will be the group method for hospitalization hospitaliza-tion and medical expense reim- Dursemeni plan. - People In Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the exchequer, introduced a bill in the British commons for blanket war credits totaling f 2,800,000,000 and said Britain now is spending at the rate of $26,000,000 a day... Arthur B. Langiie was returned as mayor of : Seattle, Wash., In elections yesterday, defeating Warren War-ren I Cook...In Tacoma, Harry P. Cain was elected mayor over Melvin G. Tennant .. . The forgotten man of the Finish-Russian war has disappeared ..'.Otto Kussinen, whom. Moscow announced as head of the "peoples government" of Finland with head-. Finland Suffers Heavy. Land Loss Treaty T Three and One-Half Months of Intense War Ends; Finland Had No Choicer Declares Foreign Minister In Radio Speech I " : BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE Jit, , HELSINKI, Finland, March 13 (U.R) Giant Russia and little Finland formally ended their, unequal 3 Yi month war today and Foreign Minister V. A. Tanner In a poignant radio speech to the mourning nation said Finland had had no choice. The end came here at the World war armistice hour of 11 a. m. The smoking guns of the Mannerheim line ceased fire, and the ski patrols in the far north were called in. Cease At 11 A. M ' " . 1 ' . 1 ! Cease at 11 a. m. Reds Claim Triumph In Peace Move I - 1 By HENRY SHAPIRO ' r MOSCOW, March 13 - iEV An agreement signed here to end the Finnish v .. war was celebrated throughout the Soviet Union today as a complete triumph for the Russian Rus-sian Red army and as removing all threat of a general "Imperialist" war" with Finland as a stepping stone. . . - vl: ; Foreign observers agreed , the treaty, giving Russia the Karelian Isthmus, VUpurl, Hango, partv of the Petsamo .Arctic area and the promise of a direct link with Sweden, and providing for a Russo-Flnnish Russo-Flnnish non-aggression and trade treaty, was a gigantic Soviet diplomatic dip-lomatic and military victory. Shout for Jojj .,-.',.. .. . Throughout the 8,340,000 square miles of Union territory, from the Baltic to the Pacific and from the Artclc to the Black' Sea v and the Af ghanistn frontier, Russians greeted with , shouts of joy the announcement an-nouncement of the official radio of a treaty which gave Josef Stalin (Continued on Page Three) PUBLIC FORUM MEETS TONIGHT All angles of Provo's recreation program will be aired at tonight's public forum meeting scheduled at 8 o'clock in the south courtroom, court-room, according to John Bown, executive , sepretary, who- calls attention at-tention to the fact that this week's meeting is being held a day earlier ear-lier than usual. . Speakers will be Commissioner Jesse Haws, Jena : V. Holland, state- director of women's and children's recreational activities; Dr. .Vasco M, Tanner of the Brigham Brig-ham Young university faculty, and Vern B. Thorpe, of Salt Lake City, state director of recreation, The forum Is sponsored by the Provo city board of education and the ,WPA adult education program. pro-gram. The public Is Invited. The News quarters in Terljoki, has not been heard from since shortly after outbreak of hostilities . . . . -Finnish Preaiaent Kyonti Kallio and Marshall Baron Carl Gustav Von Mannerheim will discuss the peace pact in radio addresses to the people of Finland tomorrow. . . - Mrs. : Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps, granddaughter of James G. Fair, one of j the four "kings of the Comstock," will attend with other members of the Mackay, Fair, Flood : and O'Brien families the premiere in Virginia City, Nev., Friday," the motion picture, "Virginia "Vir-ginia City".; . . . ' erms "AH war-ilke operations ceased at 11 a. m. Finnish time," said the official announcement. This - was the hour set' In' the treaty signed at Moscow at '2:30 a. m. Moscow time noon Moscow time at 4 a. m. Eastern Standard time;v-.' l' sw,a It was announced also to the Finnish people, that-the treaty which put Russia back ito the frontiers of Peter the Great's time in the early 18th century, had been signed. . An hour later Tanner made , the first of a series of speeches by national leaders bitter, sorrowful sorrow-ful but resolute 'speeches to tell the nation why a humiliating peace had: been made for them, , , - Not Prepared ; - "We were not prepared because we had believed in treaties Tanner Tan-ner said. "... there was a lack of all sorts of equipment, and s noticeable shortage - of certain important . arms v . V . we had not got guarantees from other quarters. . .our army did wen sCtt f iught with all Its might, and it did well beyond au expectations. I will not use the commonplace word, ; heroes. X will say they fought like ; men. We had many great victories: and only on the main frontier were we forced to withdraw somewhat. .. - 'But we are a small people. The same men had to fight all the time and it was inevitable that they became tired... lf "We asked for help from Sweden. Swe-den. . .its neutrality policy did not permit it, which rendered the position posi-tion still more difficult." ' Both the cabinet and parliament had met during the1 morning. The cabinet approved Tanner's speech and parliament considered the ratification rati-fication of the treaty. 1 Explains Terms It was expected the ratification would come today. Explaining .terms of the treaty Tanner said the new frontier roughly followed the line fixed hy the peace of Uusikaupunki during the reign of Peter the Great, when that czar defeated Sweden and took Viipurl. . ' The "Fishermen's Peninsula" in the Petsamo region had been ceded,' (Continued on Page Three) ; Timpanogos Sets Festival Friday ; A spring festival is being presented pre-sented at the Timpanogos school auditorium Friday evening at 8 o'clock, by pupils of the first, second and third grades. The teachers urge a full attendance attend-ance of the parents and, school patrons - at the one-hour entertainment, entertain-ment, and announce that- the youngsters have been practicing for, weeks and that it Is impossible to change the date of the festival in spite of the fact that Provo's spring, opening ts being held that night at 7 o'clock. ..; The children will be gayly costumed cos-tumed and to program includes music and dancing.. A small charge will be made and proceeds will be used to purchase blinds for the auditorium. ' - - 1940 COMPLETE UNITED 1 PRESS TK1BGKJU,H NEWS SERVICE For This Family i Mjni.,jLuit!ii.iijiai usiw" iiinui'.stii-i)'WMii.M'iinri n 1 ' f- . . ,- , ) x r : v. ( " k Yv S ' Freed by a jury on charges of killing his wife four years ago, Dr. George K. Dazey, Santa Monica physjclan, rejoins his present wife, Dorcas, and his son, George, at their home. Both figured prominently in the trial Stores To Display New Spring Merchandise At Colorfuh Event Eriday Last minute polishing and perfecting is all thatjremams to be done on preparations for, Provo's .annual spring opening open-ing Friday evening. The one thing 'needed to make it a complete com-plete success is the weather, and clear skies Wednesday gave hopes of . cooperation from tnaif angle. : Beginning with the fireworks to be lighted at 7 p. m. by Thomas Bessley on the vacant lot north of the fire department, and a serenade seren-ade of the business district by the Dixon junior high school band, the opening will continue with thousands thou-sands of people down town to witness wit-ness the window displays and attend at-tend the openhouses and spring opening. : Openhouse Programs Openhouse will be held by a number of merchants. Granite Furniture company is preparing to exhibit a line of ranges, refrigerators refriger-ators and washers of new style and design; Taylor Brothers are reported to be planning a special surprise program unlike anything ever tried in Provo before; Hulsh Electric will have floor demon strations of new merchandise; and Sears Roebuck, Dixon-Taylor? Russell's and Maycock Appliance are preparing outstanding; displays dis-plays of their new 'spring wares. Firmage's is preparing a style show of latest women's clothing, which will be modeled by Helen Park, Olive Childs,. Elithe FU1-more, FU1-more, Rita Johnson, Beth Allred, Naomi Halliday, Mrs. Dorothy Andrus, Mrs. Rose' Goates, Glenda Taylor, June Whipple, Mrs. Hazel Watts, Iris Taylor, Jean Larson Betty Cherrlngton, Blanche Rust, Rosalind Dahlqulst and Wilma Mott Clothing for young misses will be modeled by Norma Llnd Taylor, Tay-lor, Beverley Harding, Marilyn Faux, Lee Ann Loveless, Virginia Rae Stubbs and Marilyn Roylance. Mrs. Norma Taylor and Margaret Boyer are in charge of the show, -. Dixon-Taylor-Russell v company Is a style show with Its open-house. open-house. The upholstery, drapery, ref inishing and repairing work-roms work-roms will be open with , regular staff at work, and there .will be (Continued on Page Three) This Day... BORN . ' Girl, to' Walden S. and Alice Isaacson Menlove - of Lewlsville, Idaho, this morning at Lewlsville. Boy, to Carl F. and ' Loraine Richards Olsen, Tuesday, Utah Valley hospital. ' - Boy, to Martin K. and Nedra Lewis Snow, today, Utah Valley hospital. LICENSED TO MARRY Harvey Lerwell, 21, Payson, and Vera Blackett, 21, Springville. William Bowdish, 26, Provo, and Fay Smith, 18, Springville. ' Clyde Nielsen, 21, Spanish Fork and Ruth Hoit, 18, Spanish Fork. PRICE FIVE CENTS Life Begins Anew Burglar Alarms To Be Installed In Provo School Burglar alarms will be- Installed in all schools in Provo, as protection pro-tection against robbery epidemics, it was decided by the Provo district dis-trict school board Tuesday night. The board decided to grant leaves to all music instructors that they might attend the music educator's edu-cator's national conference to be held March 30 to April 5 In Los Angeles.'-' Superintendent J. C.JMoffitt reported re-ported that the roof on the main ' high school building was Ira bad condition, and was authorized by the board to Investigate and ob tain bids. It was decided toplace a fence around the one house lot on the Joaquin school grounds which the board does not own, j rather than buy It at the present time, : . Totfrney Scores South Summit . . . . 35 Roosevelt ..... ... . 26 South Cache Springville i 20 27 p' AUNT HET ' "A gambler like Bill don't care how many people he owes. He loses hi money no easy, he thinks other Ietple hadn't ought to mind losin' theirs." |