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Show CO The Weather ' IT All ; Tartly tloady to-n!ght arS Thursday; colder to ni f b t ; trv-t or frrtin j . tempera curs KortSj portion tonight. SLaju trnp-. Tueday ...... -.61 Mlm. temp, Te&ay ...5-5 Call The Ilcrald If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call The Herald office, 493, before 7 p.m. week day, and 10 a m. Sunday, and a copy will be delivered to yon. ,'j:av.v-.v,v-.v.'a.vw:w FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. 194 E UTA HS ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF 8AX.T jUAK.H PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, . WEDNESDAY, APRIL ,10, 1940 COkPLETE trSTTKD PRK'l T EJ J6X2 RAPE NEW SERV1CH PRICE FIVE CENTS n en mum T v V III- 1 i i '----'- Sm New City Begins Operation Amid Ceremonies DESK CHAT BY THK . EDITOR It was a glorious moment for indomitable-Mayor Mark Anderson when he threw the switch that sent energy from the new municipal, power plant on the lines for the first time this morning. Present at the time was a large gallery gal-lery of the mayor's staunch-est staunch-est supporters who campaigned campaign-ed from start to finish for the municipal plant. ' - To demonstrate how perfect' In mechanism the plant Is, someone placed a nickel on ed ge atop ie of the generators which was run-nig" run-nig" at 8600 revolutions per minute. The nickel stood as steady as If placed In glue. " " Among the throng which gathered gath-ered at the plant for the grand opening were eome of the Utah Power and Light company officials, offic-ials, Including George L. Eller-beck. Eller-beck. division manager, and S. Dwtght Packard, division superintendent. superin-tendent. Demonstrating rare pportsmanshlp,- they shook hands with the city officials, congratulated congratu-lated them on the fine plant, and wished them- lucki" -- - -' ' A sheaf of telegrams arrived Airing the program, some of them coming from i eastern equipment companies, and others from interested inter-ested city officials throughout the country. Among the telegrams were two from Fremont, Nebraska, Nebras-ka, home-town . of R. C Adams, Provo's superintendent ; of utilities. Sent by the city council and the hoard of nubile works they con gratulated the Provo officials on their achievement and wished them success In operation of the plant. There were more fpeeche during dur-ing the morning program than a testimony meeting. City Commissioner Commis-sioner Jesse Haws, speaking near the . end of the program, said: "Seems to me there's a lot of repetition repe-tition . In these speeches, lint 1 mi p pose It's like a woman with a new dress or a man with a new automobile we've Just got to talk Hlmut our plant. We're proud of lt. - Mayor Anderson, touching on a controversial point ' during the heated municipal power campaign, challenged anyone in the audience to discern any smoke from the towering stack outside, in spite of the fact that the plant was running full blast. ' ', BARGAIN EVENT SET FRIDAY While Provo's gigantic two-day two-day Bargain Carnival , . doesn't start until Friday, shoppers already al-ready were showing unusual interest in-terest in. purchasing today, for the merchants are giving away tickets to be used in awarding the new refrigerator, to someone Saturday evening. - - One ticket is being given by all participating merchants for each initial 25-cent purchase and one for each additional $1 spent. The refrigerator will be given away at First West. Center street Saturday at 6:30 p. m after two days pf the most sensational sen-sational bargains the merchants ever offered customers of Provo. Watch for Thursday's edition of the Herald which contains advertisements adver-tisements of these hot-shot specials. P.-T.A; Meeting at Union School A P.-T."A. meeting will be held In the music room of the Union school, Thursday . evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd wiU speak and music Is being arranged. Fol lowing the meeeting, a reorganization reorganiza-tion will take place. A full attendance attend-ance of school patrons is urged.; Plant Mayor Throws Switch To Send Power Over Lines Public ownership and opera tion in. the utility field, an issue is-sue in local city elections for nearly a . decade, became an established fact today, as Mayor Mark Anderson, surrounded sur-rounded by a fair-sized "gallery" "gal-lery" of citizens at the new steam-electric - plant, threw the switch that turned the current coursing out on the lines of the city distribution system. It was 'open house at the plant on Third West and Seventh North, all day, but enthusiasm reached its peak during the forenoon when amid fitting ceremonies the plant was set in operation, fulfilling dreams of hundreds of citizens. -Crowd In Attendance- ' A good-sized throng was present, pres-ent, and through seeing the beauty of the plant and the perfect mechanism mech-anism of its 'turbines,' boilers, switchgears and otHef parts, gained gain-ed renewed faith In the movement endorsed by the majority of people at the .last election. . . ; .. Present were most of the men who spearheaded the public ownership owner-ship campaign, including Mayor Mark Anderson, Commissioners J. P. McGuire and Jesse Haws; R. C. Adams, superintendent of utilities; Engineer lmer A. - Jacob, Attorney Attor-ney I. E. Brockbank, and many others. .Each made a brief address ad-dress during the program. George S."BaIlir was in charge 01 me program, ana ur. Alonzo ' - (Continued on Page Three) MERRY ; GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'a ' Going On in National Affair By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN LaGuardia not to be counted . out as vice - presidential possibility; Has avoided Republican label; Old pal Garner might, get him votes; Tammany wo u 1 d . gladly "promote" , him out of New York into New Deal ; Naval officer gets medal after selection board refuses promotion. t ' 1 WASHINGTON You don't hear much about him in the presidential sweepstakes, but one man worth keeping your eye on these days is Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. 1 There have been two signifi cant .developments whicTi may mean "something to the " future destiny of New York's "Little Flower' . " First, it was -no accident that he took himself out of the Illinois Illin-ois Republican primary. LaGuardia LaGuar-dia didn't want to he stamped definitely as a Republican. As a matter of fact, LaGuardia was first elected to Congress, as a Republican, and later was . defeated de-feated by a Tammany Democrat. But in his mayoralty campaigns he has always, received as much .support from Progressive Democrats Dem-ocrats as from Republicans. . .Actually LaGuardia is a Roosevelt Roose-velt New Dealer and the President Presi-dent has talked to him about the possibility of getting on the New Deal 1940 ticket, Second, LaGuardia has made peace with Tammany. Or perhaps It would be more correct to say that Tammany has made peace with LaGuardia. . TAMMANY STRATEGY V ' ' ' . : ' i This Is extremely significant. For seven years Tammany bosses have been ready to give their eye-teeth eye-teeth to defeat, the Little Flower. He is the last man - they want running New York City. , Therefore, There-fore, they would be delighted to "promote" him make his Vice President of .the . United States or even President, provided only that he be promoted out of New York City. - So LaGuardia can count upon the full support of Tammany to get the vice-presidential . nomin-( nomin-( Continued on. Page 1, Sec. 2) ROOSEVELT LEADS 7-1 OVER GARNER Dewey Polls 75 Per Cent Of Republican j Strength , CHICAGO, April 10 (U.R) Illinois Democrats gave President Presi-dent Roosevelt more than a seven to one preference over Vice President John N. Gar ner, in Tuesday's presidential primaries, increasing , returns showed today. Uis vote was nearly twice that received by Thomas E. Dewey, . unoposed . on the G. O. P. presidential prefer ence ballot. Dewey, 28. New York district attorney who won a solid nominating, nom-inating, delegation last week in the Wisconsin primary, polled slightly better than 75 per cent Of. the G. O. P. primary vote, ac cording to these returns, Mr, Roosevelt, whose name was entered In the primary al though he had not committed himself on a third term, . polled 200,000 more than the combined votes of Garner and Dewey. - Dewey, New York district 6185. precincts gave: -Roosevelt, 918,931, Garner, 142,484.. 5692 precincts gave. Dewey 587 757. Lieut. Gov.- John: Stelle, self-styled self-styled rebel, who had created a furore Monday by declaring , himself him-self governor - because of the Ill ness of Gov. ' Henry Horner, ap parently was defeated for - the Democratic gubernatorial nomination" nomina-tion" by Ws Ilorner-sponsored"' op ponent,; Harry B. . Hershey, . a country . lawyer, two to one. In the G. O. P.. gubernatorial contest,- Dwig'ht H. Green, prosecutor prose-cutor of gangster Al Capone, won nomination over Richard J. Lyons former state legislator. , OMAHA, Neb., April 10 (HE) Nebraska . . Republicans., prefer Thomas E. Dewey to Sen. Arthur (Continued on Page Three) ' Program Sot for Commercial Meet The official schedule of meetings for the Intermountain Commercial Contest to be held Thursday and Friday at Brigham Young univer sity has been announced by the general committee in charge ot the event. Mr. Lois A. Leslie of the Gregg Publishing company will be featured at these meetings. ' - On Thursday at 3:30 Mr. 'Leslie will give a lecture, foUowed by an .informal discussion of " questions ques-tions to the shorthand .and typewriting type-writing students of B. Y. U Provo high and Brigham Young . high schools at the Maeser assembly hall on the upper campus. At 7 p. m. a dinner meeting of commercial teachers of the colleges col-leges and . high schools of this region will be held. The program will consist of a short presentation on the , subject of "The Present Status of the Functional Method of Teaching Shorthand," given by Mrs. Leslie, followed, by a round-table round-table discussion. It will be held at the Hotel Roberts. 1 A luncheon for all visiting (Continued on Page Three) City To Duild f'civ Substation y Construction ' of a $1600 , eub-station eub-station on the northeast corner of the municipal power plant grounds was - authorized in a resolution passed by the city comimssion Tuesday. . The station, to house transformers, transform-ers, switches.etc, of the municipal power system," - will be of brick and concrete, 21 fe et six inches by 17 feet six inches dimensions, and 22 feet high. Doctors To Meet Important matters, including discussion of the Orem contract, will be brought to the attention of the Utah County Medical society at its regular meeting Wednesday Wednes-day at 7:30 p. m. at the Utah State hospital, states Dr. W. Woolf, secretary. " Dr. Woolf reminds that the Joint meeting with the Weber and Salt Lake county societies will be held May 3 at Salt Lake City. - : . 'Dlaclcoiit'of a IN ' ' ' ' ( (NEA Telepkoto) Night View of Oslo, capital of Norway, where lights were darkened against Nazi air raids. Germany reported capturing the Esndinavian city, encountering- "slight local resistance". Silver Tea 7 1. Liiorary A general injvitatjon to the public, men and women both, to attend the Library Silveii Tea-Thursday at the public library, was extended today Uy. the officers of the Women's Council, sponsors' of the worthy community activity. Thchours are announced!' from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. for all adults, and from' 3 p..m. to jj p. ni. for the children. Jligh school and college students ara invited to attend from 6 p. m. to 7 p. in.; if a later time .interferes with classes. X Many clubs and organizations have acknowledged the invitation in-vitation and pledged their, support;" ;-Everyone'is urged to attend at-tend and thereby do his part jn' helping to make this a successful suc-cessful 'tivical fair; and"ikrvth sihiitime'participate in ""ah enjoyable evening with friendsv ; ' k - ' The book circulation desk will be closed at G p. m. Thursday, Thurs-day, because of the tea; announces Maline S. Bandley, librar. ian. . Library Board Supporfs Plea For More Funds,-B6oks Needed By CLAYTON JENKINS Library Board Member Provo's new library is one of. the most attractive, pleasant pleas-ant and well-arranged public libraries in Utah. ,It has a staff of courteous and pbliging attendants, well-trained well-trained in the exacting work of operating a public institution r-5of this kind. " ; WELFARE BOARD ANSWERS CAREY SALT LAKE CITYr-Charges of loose handling of funds in the Utah county welfare department were emphatically refuted by representatives rep-resentatives of the county before the state welfare board at . the state capitol Tuesday. The Utah county group, headed head-ed Jby William J. Johnson, chairman chair-man of the county board and WUliam H. Callahan, county welfare wel-fare director, severely ' criticized Special Auditor R." R. Carey, who had charged that the county had allowed undeserving persons to obtain" relief, after making a "spot check" of the records recently. re-cently. " A 42-page" statement which discussed at length each individual indi-vidual case" mentioned by Mr. Carey was presented by the Utah county officials. Mr. Callahan, who read the Utah county board's answer to the charges, 'asserted that Mr. "Carey was '"unforgiveably ignorant ignor-ant of social work practices and philosophy, the method of case recording and the rules and regulations regu-lations pertaining to need, which is . the basis for granting assistance," assist-ance," or of being' "guilty of wilful negligence and adverse bias in presenting the facts to your (the state) board." Coming Events Kiwanis club, Thursday, 12:15 p. m., Hotel Roberts. Guest speaker,' speak-er,' Lethe Coleman Tatge, Chicago, Chi-cago, renowned speaker Who for years was a Chautauqua lecturer. She will discuss Patriotism." Wives of Kiwanians are cordially invited. Provo Lodge 849. B. P. O. Elks, Thursday, 8 p. m., regular lodge. 20-80 dub, Thursday, 8 p. m., Hotel Roberts, business meeting. Board- of -directors meet at 7:30.V Nation Norway Falls "IK . r- To Aid Thursday It is extensively used , by men. women and children of Provo; by students of the university, and. by many people Uvlng in other communities com-munities outside Provo. The 109,457 books circulated by the library are used over and over again by the readers.- Each book is " loaned .on an average of five times during the year. . - The. most pressing need of the library f is books and - still more books. v' Realizing this, the Women's Wom-en's Council is giving a silver tea at the library Thursday for the purpose of raising funds to buy soma of these much-needed books. This is a very commendable activity, ac-tivity, and these enterprising ladies should receive enthusiastic support in their efforts to keep the library. ; Be sure to attend the sUver tea. STATE TRAFFIC MEETING HERE George Lowe,. Ogdcn, chairman of; the enforcement" committee, Utah State Safety Traffic council, coun-cil, will lecture at the meeting of the Utah ! County Saf ey council Thursday at 7:30 p. m., in the city Courtroom, announces President Pres-ident Danzil A. Brown. Representatives of all cities and towns should be present. Law enforcement officers, city mayors may-ors and councils, county commissioners commis-sioners and others having to do with traffic safety are Invited. This Day . ; BORN , Girl, to Mark F. and Edith Lambert Nielson, at a Mesa, Arizona, Ari-zona, hospital, Tuesday night. LICENSED TO MARRY ' Fred S. Turner and Florence Elaine Theobald, Delta. Francis Charles Lee, 20. American Amer-ican Fork. and- Donna Beth Coomer, 16 Lehl,. married by Bishop Earl S. Greenwood. to Invading Nazis I . t If! ' si' f. gH : S. Le Woman Succumbs To Crash Hurts Utah's , Traffic Death Toll Mounts To 37, Increase , ! of Eleven SALT -LAKE CITY, April 10 U.R) Utah's 1940 traffic death toll mounted again today, to-day, this time to 37 an increase in-crease of 11 over the number recorded, 1y April 10;103a.-t r The latest victim was Mrs. Mary CNeil, 53, who died in a Salt' Lake City hospital of injuries in-juries suffered yesterday when struck by an automobile as she walked onto a rainy street In front of her home. The driver" of the car, Wilfred Blrrell,- 25. told officers offi-cers Mrs. O'Neil walked from behind be-hind a parked automobile and he did not see her until . she was struck. ... . . f . Doard Authorizes Improvements At School Buildings Provo board of education Tuesday Tues-day night authorized , J., C Mof-f Mof-f Itt, superintendent, to apply for a WPA project for remodeling, redecorating and . landscaping at the various schools in the city district. Expenditure of 12500 In school funds for the 1940-41 . budget for materials required for the project proj-ect was voted by the board. While work is planned at all schools. the major improvements will be made at Maeser elementary elemen-tary school where' a sprinkling system will be Installed east and south of the building as main portion of a beautification program. pro-gram. Appointments Made Upon recommendation of Mr. Moffitt, the board approved ap pointment of the following teachers teach-ers to fill vacancies occurring in the school system for next year: -. " " Claude' Snow, Instructor of speech at Provo high, salary $1500; Boyd McAffee, fifth grade, Joaquin school, salary $900; Mrs. Edith SUmpson, kindergarten at Timpanogos school, $!XX): Dianne , (Continued on Page Three) -Sh Paul Robeson, Great Baritone, Signed For Provo Concert Paul Robeson, acclaimed America's Ameri-ca's greatest baritone, has already al-ready been signed up for a concert con-cert appearance in the Provo tabernacle on November IS. under un-der the auspices of the University-Community University-Community Concert association, officers announced today. Rofceson commands the highest rating among concert stage baritones bari-tones and capacity audiences are the rule wherever he appears. The successful closing of a contract con-tract for a concert in Provo has heightened interest in the drive for season membership tickets which is already under way, Mrs, H. B- MenseL membership chairman, chair-man, said today. Furious Fighting In Progress For Control Of Norwegian Coast Chamberlain Admits Loss of Two British Destroyers; Claims Sinking" of Six Nazi Merchantmen, One Destroyer By SIDNEY J. WILLUMS United rres Staif Corrrmptmdmt LONDON", April 10 (U.R Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Cham-berlain announced today two British destroyers had been lost and three damaged in a battle with six German warships at Narvik, where the British sank six merchant ships and probably prob-ably one Nazi destroyer. - - f Three other German destroyers of the largest and latest type were "heavily hit and burning," and a seventh merchant ship believed to be carrying: supplies for the German expeditionary ex-peditionary forces in Norway, was sunk by the British Warships, i M A mwnr Chamberlain said. The seventh merchant .ship, the Ravensfeldt, was encountered as the British warshipsjeft Narvik. It was carrying car-rying ammunition. Forced To Withdraw The prime minister told the house of commons the five British destroyers were faced by six of Germany's most modern destroyers destroy-ers in addition to powerful fire from shore batteries. They were forced to withdraw after their dash Into the harbor and their en gagement with the German shjpa. which did not pursue them. The prime minister announced that first lord of admiralty, Winston Wins-ton Churchill, probably would make a statement in commons tomorrow to-morrow on the general Allied naval operations against German forces in Norway. He said he hoped by then to hare "more in-fornaation'- - - - The British losses at" Narvik were: Destroyer Hunter, 1.340 tons, with normal complement of 145 men. sunk. Flotilla leader Hardy, 1505 tons, 175 men, run aground and wrecked. wreck-ed. . . Destroyer Hotspur (same as Hunter) serious damage. Destroyer Havock (same as Hunter) undamaged. He. saT? that, a 1.600-Ibn German Ger-man destroyer was torpedoed and believed sunk. War At A Glance BY UNITED PRKSS LONDON Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax says fight for Norway Nor-way goes on regardless of any Norwegian peace negotiations; two British destroyers admitted lost at Narvik; sinking of at least one German cruiser at Bergen claimed. , PAULS - Reynaud government faces confidence vote on Norwegian Norweg-ian coup; French fleet turned over to British for Norwegian operations. STOCKHOLM Swedish reserves re-serves called up; tight censorship imposed; reports that Norway may try peace dicker with Germany; Ger-many; furious air and sea battle between allies and - Germans reported re-ported along Norway's coast. BERLIN Loss of cruisers Karlsruhe and Bluecher admitted; admit-ted; claimed that four British battleships, two battle cruisers, three heavy cruisers and two transports hit by German bombers; bomb-ers; deny damage , to German warships at Bergen; mopping vp in Denmark and Norway proceed ing rapklly. - Present ticket holders will have first opportunity to renew, but those n the waiting list, will be permitted to buy tickets, at the close of the deadline to be set soon. Season ticket renewals wi;l h accepted by the aa,tb-iatkn officers, of-ficers, Mrs. Paul D- Vi-cr.t, and others at the final lecture of the present series tcr.Ight, to be given by Robert Frost, noted American poet beginning at S;15 at the tabernacle. The annual membership committee com-mittee dinner-meeting and "pep rally' will be held Monday at 7 p. m- at the Hotel Roberts. UoLU rtMKo SHELLING BY BRITISH SHIPS . AMSTERDAM. April 10 VT Radio Stockholm In a bfosdejust heard here tonight reported British Brit-ish warships bad entered Oslo-Fjord Oslo-Fjord outside of Oslo and were t'Slieved to , have fixed a tlxn limit for German evacuation after af-ter which they would pen f.ra on' the city. The report together with rewi cf a hlg sea battle at tie entrance en-trance .: the KfcUft i-viicatf i that the BntUh warships rr,a have forced the Skagrerrak. It was reported that Oslo ii being evacuated in panic and there were said to have bn dramatic scenes in the stre-ets and at the railroad stations because be-cause of fear that the city would be shelled. Measures were ur.ier way tO' evacuate' women and ared persons and children a quickly as possible, the radio station reported. re-ported. . Radio Stockholm also rep-srle-d that an air battle was In progress pro-gress between EritLah and German Ger-man planes over Oalohacn Vae-sty near Oslo. The radio reported that the e battle between th Briti ar.4 German warships off Gothenburg. Sweden, still was going on. Watcher on the coast sakl they had seen 'one ship sink and another an-other afire. Smokt was m heavy they were unable to delrmLi the Identity of the ve&acUr, Gsrmany Csnics . " Bremen Sinking BERLIN, Apr.! 10 fCT Ke-ports Ke-ports that the German liner Bremen Brem-en had been sunk while eri ir.z as a troop ship were 2er.ied toUr as "tendentious British rurs-ors.' Dance Slated At Elks Home Saturday Sponsored by, the Provo Bo&t club, a djir.ee wil! be held In the Elks heme, Satyr-slay rJgfct, t proceeds to be uet for tre Proration Pror-ation day boat rarea at l.? Prtm river. Since the imi.wian to the races will he free, public Fupj of the dance is urged lot thfe in charge. 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