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Show 1 "''"''y , me i Call The Herald E I .. 2t If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call The Herald office, 493, before 7 p.m. weeks days, and 10 a. m. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. PTrmV PATTDrPTI VPAD f If 1 1TUUIV111 iumv, Y A DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR It is cratif vinie to know in these days of reckless public spending that .Utah county will Va f rPA of all bonded in debtedness in one more year, one oi me lew cuuuuca ui state to be able to claim this honor. Pursuing a policy of prompt bond and interest payment when due, V the county com missioners report that alter this year's installment is paid, there will be only $52,000 outstanding out-standing in bonded indebtedness. indebted-ness. This will be raid next year. That's sound fiscal policy for which our!- county officials should be commended by every taxpayer. oOo One of the finest of many fine things accomplished by the Civilian Conservation Corps has been to teach 80,-flOO 80,-flOO vouncr men to read. About three boys of every 100 registering for the camps have proved unable to read or write. Using- special books designed for young men rath-tr rath-tr 'than "children, - the camp . instructors have been able to Leach sjich boys to read a newspaper and to write ordinary ordin-ary letters . within three months. Some were able to write letters home within two months. It is embarrassing to think that ;somehow these 80.0UU young men slipped around the public school system, without getting the most elementary preparation for life -the ability abil-ity to read and write. But better , late than never, and the CCC thus sets another feather firmly in its cap. "Why would the Germans go into Sweden ?" someone asked. ' "Probably, in order to get the Nobel Peace Prize for the . Fuehrer," someone re plies, keeping in mind Ger man protestations of "peaceful" "peace-ful" intentions at all times. oOo : , : Ah enterprizing foot doctor has a sign on the door, "Limp in and walk out," FRENCH SINK GERMAN SHIPS PARIS, April 25 OLE) French warships sank two German patrol ships and a U-boat in the Skager-rak, Skager-rak, Naval Minister , Cesar Cam-plnchl Cam-plnchl said today. . : Campinchl said the French vessels ves-sels also sank a .German torpedo launch. (In Berlin, the German high command reported French destroyers de-stroyers fled from the mouth of the Skagerrak, south of Norway, Mk.. : ftft . V'lSa6 1X-iCiL k I which they were pursued by Ger-j man ships.) . ) ' campinchl told the chamber of deputies finance committee several sever-al French destroyers participated In the clash. 4 This Day... BORN . Boy, - to Elmo ' and MauriAe Baird Campbell, today, Utah Valley Val-ley hospital, i Boy, to John B. and Lucile Viste Qulst, today, Utah VaUey hospital. . ( Girl, to Russell Joseph and Al-verda Al-verda DeLange Carson, " Fairfield, Wednesday night, Utah VaUey hospital. LICENSED TO MARRY El wood . George Bywater, Provo,. and Donna Johnson, Provo, i 26, 25, tr OftE UTAH'S UNLI iilU. 6UU SOUTH OF 8AUT Grego ry Mice, To Run. '. in Exh ibiiioMMace Posture Parade is 'Feature Event of Saturday, : . By GLEN SNARB All , the color and athletic splendor of 3500 youths participating par-ticipating in the intermouh-taln intermouh-taln country's greatest spring show, the Brigham Young university Invitation Track Meet and Relay Carnival, will unfold Friday and Saturday in the "Y" stadium. , Completing , two months of preparation, Charles J. Hart, general gen-eral director, - announced today that the stage was set for the gigantic spectacle which begins at 0 a. m.- Friday with tennis and dancing competition. Feature- Marathon-Two Marathon-Two davs crammed with activ ity and featuring a variety of events for high school, junior high and junior college athletes .will oe Climaxed by finals In the track meet for senior high and junior college boys, the girls' psture parau?, the all-around championship," champion-ship," and the novel "Salute To Youth", which will be highlighted by the finish fit the Salt Lake to Provo marathon-relay.- Patterned ' after" " the classic Greek marathon, freshmen athletes ath-letes from B. Y. U. will carry, in a colorful relay, messages of greeting from L..D. S. church officials, of-ficials, as well as from state leaders, lead-ers, to the Invitation meet Saturday Satur-day afternoon at the conclusion of the posture parade. , At the same time, an '.airplane, completing a contrasting skyway-relay, skyway-relay, will drop- messages from out-of-state officials by parachute. The messages, saluting iyouth, will be read to assembled participants and spectators in an s elaborate ceremony. . . The .event" will be Utah's opening observance of National Na-tional Boys' and Girls' week, which begins throughout . the -United State' Saturday. Gl rla March Friday' " ' Friday's events will, be featured by the , junior ? high school girls' posture parade, which beerins at 1 ;15 p. m. Senior and junior high I f hrOl crirla anrf liinlm Vilo-V mva ' compete in track and field events following the posture parade. Ten-( Ten-( Continued -en Page Two) MERRY GO-ROUND Af Daily Picture of What' Gobg On in National Affairs Br DREW PEARSON , - ROBERT . S. ALLEN ' WASHINGTON As the Italian Itali-an fleet hovered within striking distance' of Salonika and - the Greek coast last week. Allied diplomats in Rome engaged in some .very blunt talking with Count Ciano. son-in-law of Mussolini. Mus-solini. Iihe cards as to what would hapten hap-ten to Italy if n Duce took his fcountry into the war. Especially, they laid emphasis on the Allied achievements in Norway. It Is now . well recognized that Hitler went into Norway largely as a ruse .to divert the British fleet, and other Allied forces, up to the out-of-the-way north. Meanwhile, the German - ai'my could push into Holland while Mussolini landed in the Balkans. So the Allied diplomats showed show-ed Foreign Minister Ciano how his ruse had failed. They pointed out that the British had handled the Norwegian i fracas without sending a single ship out of the Mediterranean, and that the naval, forces facing Italy were just as strong as before. They also pointed -out. that the British navy had used its older vessels in Norway, had not weakened weak-ened the main fleet, . which - still stood off the . coast of ' Holland awaiting- the " expected attack 'from Germany. Finally, : Ciano was. told that the British had successfully . land ed troops in Norway and -still J Continued on Page 3 Sec. 2 B PROVO, IiAJKJB Tropfiies Ready For Winning i.Gontestants t a; More" and better awards will be given at the B. Y. U. Relay Carnival Friday and - Saturday than ever ; before. Director C. J. Hart and Miss Leon a Holbrook, in charge of women's events, examine some ; of ;the awards to 5 be given place winners at the meet. . Crack L'otrc Dame Runner Accepts ' D. Y. U. Invitation New interest in the VY" Invi tation Meet and Relay Carnival was injected this afternoon with the announcement Dy uirecior tj. J. Hart that Greeory Rice, famous Notre Dame distance man. who three weeks aero set a new three- mile indoor record of 14:52.3 by beating , Tasto Maki, l of fmiana and Don Lash of ' Indiana, win mm here. Rice, will run in a special two- mue event saiuraay against tour B. Y. U. runners. Buster Webb and Carl Jones, "Y" two-milers, will be spotted a 30-second handicap. handi-cap. Byron Woodland and Johnson, John-son, Cougar milers, will relay against the others, each running a mile. They wuT probably spot Rice a .slight handicap. j Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis ... Pittsburgh . Cooper' and Heintzelman 330 00 . ... 102 20 Padgett; Klinger, (W) Schultz. Brooklyn .... . . 010 001 , Philadelphia . . . 100 000 Casey and Franks; - Pearson and Larsen. Home run, Camilli, Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. Boston ........ 000 0 ' New York ..... 213 3 Callahan; Early (1) and Lopez. Lohrman and Dan'ning. Home run, Whitehead, N. Y. -. . Cincinnati 200 Chicago '.003 . Derringer and LombardL Dean and Todd. , AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago '. 000 000 0 , Cleveland 010 000 1' E. Smith and Tresh. Feller and Hemsley. Home run, . Hemsley, Cleveland. , Philadelphia 000 023 Washington .... 000 001 Caster and Brucker, Karakaskas and Early. Dertiot ....J.; 00. St. Louis '20' . . Newsora and Tebbetts, . Auker and Suce, - UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, . APRIL 25, 1940 IU U : World . Schedule Schedule of events! for ' the two-aay Brigham Young university Invitation Meet and Relay Carnival follows: .:- . . - ; " . FRIDAY . .J' N: 'a.. m. Opening of tennis tournaments for senior high school girls and junior - high boys, University - hill; : dancing contests for junior high school girls in College hall. -.'.,;;;.: 1:15 pv m Posture parade for junior high school girls, , Y" stadium. 2 p. m. Track and field meet and relay carnival - for junior and senior high school girls and junior high boys, fY" stadium; opening of tennis tournaments for class, A and class B 'high school boys, university lull. - ' - i - SATURDAY ( 8:30 a. m. Tennis tournament or junior college men, University hiU. ' , . - 8:45 a. m. Opening of all-around championship event for senior high boys. 9 a. m. Senior high track and field meet trials, stadium; senior high school, girls creative dance meet. College halL - - 1 p. m. - Band concert, Brigham Young -university band. 1:30 p. m. Girl3 posture parade, senior high schools. 2 p. m. Track and field meet championships for junior col- xegea aim nign scnuuis. -. 4 p. m. Special dance demonstration program at College hau, Roosevelt Proclaims State of Uar Dehveen fJonvay, and Germany Today By T. F. REYNOLDS WARM SPRINGS, April 25 (U.R) -President Roosevelt by executive proclamation, today found that a state of war exists between Norway, and Germany, and, proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the conflict. " . Iron Dars Dlamcd For Hilling 100 NATCHEZ, Miss., April 25 (EE) Iron bars, placed over the windows win-dows of the Rhythm club, Negro' dance haU, to "keep out the spec tators and deadheads," were blamed blam-ed today for most of the deaths in Wednesday . night's fire .and panic. The bars, reinforced by wooden lattice work, covered all but two of the 17 windows in the frame building, leaving, only the one door and two windows as exits. ' . The fire broke out" In Spanish moss festoons with which the building- was ? decorated ; for a swing festival. It flashed through the place In 15 minutes, killing almost half , the 500 dancers. Estimates Esti-mates of the dead ranged as high as 256 but' health officers set the toll at 198 after conferring with Red ' Cross officials and police. Some of , the 40 injured . were expected ex-pected to . die. IV inn pr JuvJ .k of Events Little White House.' invoked the full force of American neutrality laws -on Norway. At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt by; v proclamation barred submarines sub-marines of either of the belligerents belliger-ents from United States ports and territorial waters. " . . a- Invocation of the neutrality law in Norway's case applies the "cash and carry" provision to the Scandinavian Scan-dinavian power. It also applies to Norway regulations governing floating of securities in this country, coun-try, and . other rules which Mr. Roosevelt previously had applied (Continued On Page Eight) family of Five . Durn 10 Death FLINT. Mich., April 25 CC) Victor Anderson, 42, and his four children burned to death today in a fire which ' swept their home efter he poured kerosene on a :t(ve. , ...... 111 mm KIVJAUIANS TO MEET AT SPIMVILLE Fully 300 Expected to Attend At-tend Annual Art Ban- quet at Springville SPRINGVILLE Everything Every-thing is in readiness for the entertainment ' of approximately approxi-mately 300 Kiwanis club members, and their partners, representing practically every club in the state, at tile annual an-nual art banquet at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at the Art building. Dean Herald R. Clark of the B. Y. U., Provo, . Is scheduled as the principal guest speaker. Music win be furnished by Mrs. Cora Thorn Bird of Los Angeles, Calif., and Elmo Coffman of the B. Y. U. faculty. A tour of the art galleries will also be a highlight of the entertainment. en-tertainment. . F. C Packard will act as toast-master. toast-master. J. W. Grant is In charge of general, arrangements for the evening, with J. F. Wingate directing di-recting the program and W. W. Clyde, club president, chairman of the reception committee. President LeRoy ?, Olsen will head a large - delegation of Provo Kiwanians attending the banquet, Ufa, group to include the following and their wives:' , J. W. Chris tenson,- Jr, chairman of inter-club relations, who has arranged Provo's participation; John W. McAdam, Dr. I K. Mc-KelL Mc-KelL Dr. Don C. Merrill, J. G. Stratton, Jacob , Coleman, Clyde P. Crockett, " Raymond AV. Green, Alex Hedqulst, Walter Hdquist. N. C. Hicks, Allan D. Johnson, W. C. LaBrache, Dean A. Anderson, Ander-son, George S. 4 Ballif, , Andrew Broaddus, Marion J. Steed, W. O. Taylor, -Albert Terry, and Peter Jensen and his daughter. Jaycee Play Opens ') In Armory Tonight "The Drunkard," old-time melodrama which has won acclaim ac-claim on stages throughout the country, makes its debut before be-fore Provo drama-goers tonight at 8 p. m. at the Armory hall, formerly the old opera house. ' Staged by the Provo Junior NURSES SPEAK TO KIIVANIANS To promote; health, prevent disease, dis-ease, and provide remedial work for defectives are objectives of the public health program, stated Mrs. Carol B. Ralle and Miss Jean-neatte Jean-neatte Rosenstock, public health nurses, who addressed Provo Kiwanis Ki-wanis club today. President LeRoy J. Olsen presided pre-sided and Dr. Stanley M. Clark of the boys and girls and underprivileged under-privileged children committee was chairman. Guests were Morris Wolf, manager man-ager of Petite shop and new state handball champion; John Krier, former Klwanlan at -Twin Falls and new manager, of Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain theaters here, and Dr. E. G. Cole veterinarian. Three children took ' part on the program, Bonnie Barrett, who danced, Nina Luke, who played a piano selection, and Betty Lou Bird, who represented children of Provo school district in lauding the work of the child welfare program. pro-gram. Mrs. Ralle outlined the history of the child welfare committee, reported its accomplishments during dur-ing 1939. and made a plea for its growth and expansion which she said can result only through cooperation of everyone and substantial sub-stantial donations. The committee commit-tee gives dental or medical assistance assist-ance only to children coming from Indigent . or borderline families, she said. Miss Rosenstock declared the problem of promoting health is one of the entire community and that everyone must cooperate if the health program is to work. . COMPLETE UNITED PRC! TKiEORAPH NEWS SERV1CH l - Guffoy Uictory Is Dig Doost For Third Term r.lovo - j - - Pennsylranians Rcnomina tion is Big Victory For Roosevelt WASHINGTON. April 25 (O Third term sentiment amctig senate sen-ate Democrats was strengthened today by re nomination of Senator Joseph F. Guffey, New Deal Democrat, Demo-crat, In Pennsylvania's primary. Guffey, who has gone down the line 100 per cent for President Roosevelt's policies, defeated Walter Wal-ter A. Jones, wealthy oil man. In the Democratic primary. " and promptly announced he considered himself "standard bearer" for a third terra for the president. Senators unfriendly toward the New Deal conceded duffeys victory vic-tory had given Mr. Roosevelt a big boost, but some expressed doubt Guffey could carry the state in November unless he ran on a ticket headed by the chief executive. execu-tive. "The Pennsylvania result indicates indi-cates a strong third term trend among the state's Democrats." said Sen. Key" Pittman. D, Nev, who recently said he believed the president would not seek re-election. Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Sherman Mlnton. an ardent supporter of Federal Security Administrator Ad-ministrator Paul V. McNutt, told reporters the result represented "a big victory for Joe Guffey and Roosevelt all In one dose." "It shows the pulling power of the New Deal," he said. PAGE SCHOOL OPERETTA. Students of the Page school win present the annual operetta, "Cinderella "Cin-derella in Flower Land," Friday at the Pleasant View ward amusement amuse-ment halL A small admission charge will be made. Patrons of the school and the public in general gen-eral are invited to attend. chamber of commerce with a cast of prominent actors and citizens of the city, the play will be portrayed again Friday night. Although advance ad-vance ticket sales have keen public pub-lic interest, there stiU remain plenty of excellent seats, according accord-ing to Jaycee officials. Frank Fister, assistant manager man-ager of the Personal Finance company, com-pany, former active dramatlcist at Utah Agricultural college and Stanford university, will play the role of the hero, Edward Middle-ton; Middle-ton; "The Drunkard." Equally as sdntilating a part wlU be that of Mary Wilson, portrayed por-trayed by Miss Irma Acord, who will be remembered for her sterling ster-ling performance in "Night of January 18th," Jaycee play staged last year. The-part of Lawyer Cribbs, the foul scoundrel who guides the hero into the depths of drunkenness, will be played by Jack Da vies, announcer an-nouncer at KOVO. who starred on the stage at Brigham Young university. uni-versity. Elene Wilt bank, remembered for lContuuea on Page tight) Jury Confirms Prior Conviction Cyril Loveless, 27, of Provo Bench, was found guilty of drunken drunk-en driving by a Fourth district court jury at 6 p. m Wednesday after a 45-mlnut deliberation. He will be sentenced Friday by Jude Dallas II. Young. Mr. Loveless had appealed the case to district court after being found guilty by City Judge LeRoy Tuckett February 24 and sentenced sen-tenced to pay a $100 fine or serve 30 days In jail. He was arrested after an accident acci-dent la Provo February g. V Tze Weather UTAH: ShonTM totUglat and Krt-,day; Krt-,day; tittle change In terapera&ira. Max. tempt, Wednesday .......71 Silo, temp Wednesday X . . PRICE FIVE CENTS jl jn ALLIES HOLD ADVANTAGE AT NARVIK German Cut Two Path Through Allied Defense Line By JOE ALEX 5IORIUS Foreign Editor Germany's armed forces tattered two paths through Allied defenses in central Norway today, and " reported airplanes had cut communications communica-tions from the coastal bases to advance lines of the British expeditionary force. Aim cut every dispatch from the Norwegian battlefronta told of German successes in a critical phase of the Scandinavian conflict, con-flict, with the possible exception of the northern rone cf Narvik, where the Germans said they were holding out strongly against Allied encirclement. The main theater of action was along a jagged line stretchir.g from the town of Stelnltjer. nortn of Trondheim. southeastward through central Norway and alon that line the, German claimed important successes. The ErtUih claimed no progress and admlttei they had been forced to fall back from the LUlehammer front.' One of the main battlegrramJs appeared to be materializing northwest of Llllehammer. where the Germans had advanced to PJngebu and were about 25 miles " from the advance British forces at Otta, 'The central Norway battleline shaped up. on the basU of frontier dispatches and official communl- " ques, as follows: Trondheim rone Germans digging dig-ging in at Stelnkjer after throwing throw-ing British and Norwegians back six miles to the village of Meirt, fcontinued On Page Eight) GUILD DROWNS AT LlfJDOIJ PLEASANT GROVE Pauline Thome, two-year-old daughter of Jessie and Leda Hansen Thorne, of Lindon, was drowned in an Ir rigation ditch near her home while playing with a chum, Fatay Keetch. 3, this afternoon. Playing along the Gardner ditch. Pauline slipped and fell into the water and efforts to revive her failed after she was rescued from the water some distance down stream by neighbors. - Patsy, after seeing her little friend fall into the ditch, ran for help. officers reported. Pauline Thorne was born June 1. 1937. Her father is a prominent Lindon farmer and clerk of the Lindon ward. She is survived by her parents, one brother, Keyne, 5, and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. V.U. Thorne and Mr. and Mrs. Ola Hansen, all of Lindon. AUNT HET By Robert QaHIea I evrr twUeved people could be half ae and fcai1 the other till I met Jlramie. The way he repeat rcs&Jp and aaja ratty thlnjr. jtro keep expectln him to powder pow-der hi no," ZLZ3 vlv |