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Show ' PRO VOr (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY. APRIL" ":25 :lj940: FIERCE FIGHTING IN CENTRAL IN PROGRESS N0R17AY SECTOR Well, Well! ALLIED TROOPS MAKE " PROGRESS Minesweeper's Crew Prepaies Spiders and mites coxe urler the Arachruda class, neither being an insect. The sliders, however, unlike the plant-eating mites, frequently fre-quently are beneJicial to man. since they destroy injurious insects. PAGE SIX BY WEWW MILLER. --LONDON, April 25 UJ?) British Brit-ish and German troops are fighting fight-ing fiercely in the Melri (Meare) area CO miles ncrth of Trond-heim, Trond-heim, an authoritative informant said today. German troops , occupied the town of Steinjer, north of Trond-heim, Trond-heim, after sharp fighting anC British-Norwegian forces dug: in at Melri village, six miles north of Steinkjer. v-rv",'-' The battle there was described as still going on and as tae tough est now under way anywhere in Norway, - ' It was asserted British troops had reached the Otta area in the Gubrandsal valley, and-were now at a point about 25 miles south east -of the important railroad junction of Dombaas, German planes - were heavily tombing1 the railroad behind the Kritish-forces, it was said, but apparently the railroad remained np.'n and had received but slight damage. British and Norwegian troops were gradually closing in on the German troops isolated at Narvik, Nar-vik, in the north, In was asserted. Weather conditions at Narvik were reported difficult for troop opera- . tions. ' i t . - The Exchange Telegraph ? reported re-ported in a dispatch from Gothenburg, Gothen-burg, Sweden, that Norwegian troops In the frontier area were blowing up bridges at Trysll, .40 miles northeast of Lillehammer, and attJordet, Just to the north, and Jiad halted the German advance ad-vance along the Trysil river, valley which roughly parallels the frontier. fron-tier. ' ' r Today's information on military operations in Norway was th first, from an authoritative source here, in many days. ' An official informant supple mented it by commenting on re torts Germany might attack Sweden. He said: . . Any fresh aggression by Ger many- would be a matter of in stant concern to Britain." The spokesman pointed - out Sweden had made it clear she would resist any improper demands in pursuance of her neutrality. v It was asserted authoritatively Britain had established that the German invasion of Norway was planned. "-. ' - Three German supply ships, car rying troops, arms and ammuni tlon, were stationed in the vlcin ty of Bergen, on the 'southwest coast of Norway, lour Wees be fore the attack, it was. asserted. ffliiiiii ENDS TONIGHT Double Jlorror Pro (jr ami Boris Raymond KARLOFF MASSEY Charles i LAUGIITON Melvyn DOUGLAS 'THE: OLD onnu house' KARLOFF arid LUGOSI . in "Black Friday" All New Fridayl ' Another Big : Fun and Action $how! First ' ' l rrr i : l trviwt I Lj- n kmei's -,v - w . is v. a ...a . - ' M.STTS CUT! ; f '-A 'm , - z a i Second Big Hit . Roaring Action as RENFREW RIDES, AGAIN IN 7 m m mm wz.m T . r- J - tfni'lk m 'A r. pius-i. ; Another Exciting , Chapter "RED BARRY" SERIAL Added RIOTOUS COMEDY latest news events: TWO. INJURED !fj ROAD CRASH ? l ; - . - , ' - Kenner Clayton." 29. ". and. his son, LeRex, 4, of 890 West Sec ond North, suffered severe bumps on the head and other bruises in an accident at; the West. Center street viaduct Wednesday during a rainstorm. Driving , a truck loaded with lumber, Mr. Clayton was travel ing west and was going down the viaduct when an oil truck driven by Ben 1L Beveridge Jr., : 22, of Provo, crashed into the rear of his machine, causing- the lumber " to break in the cab and injure Mr. Clayton and his son. X-rays taken at. the Utah Valley Val-ley hospital this morning to determine de-termine seriousness . of Mr. , Clayton's Clay-ton's injuries had not "been developed de-veloped at noon. In the meantime mean-time he was resting at his' home. Mr. Clayton told officers he was driving about 10 miles per hour when struck by the other machine. Utah IVPA Heeds 500 Job Increase SALT LAKE CITY, April 25 (EE) J. W. Gillman, director of the state department of public welfare, today had appealed to Senator William H. King in Wash ington, Dr C, for an additional 600 jobs for , needy Utah persons who face discharge from W P A rolls. GUlman's letter answered a re- rim mm f f f. ' rrjr ; f - L v ' - K f-- !-- Here's the inside of "the biggest-well in the world. Deing aug by the WPA for the new waterworks in Cleveland. Ohio. Its 103 feet in diameter and will furnish the Cleveland area with up to 200.000.000 more eallons of water oer day. The shift is 110 feet deep. i . - - - i ' - h i ?A workers are shown Ievelin2 off the bottom of (h? bij bore. , V used 12 tons of dynamite to blast the well out of solid shale; Allies Place Orders In U. S. For 5200,030,000 Worth of Planes of Salt .Lake county's welfare board , in asking for state aid in caring for needy - in Salt i Lake county. Gillman said he has received word from Darrell J. Greenwell. ! WASHINGTON. April 25 U The allied purchasing mission announced an-nounced today it has signed contracts, con-tracts, for $200,000,000' worth of planes and motors in the last two weeks. me announcement was m a A state WPA administrator, who said w Arthur r? t,,m,i BnA quest rrom "the senator that he btfan additional- 160Operstma- ?BlI Pieven; memhers of the mission. informed df the seriousness of nave to De laid otr vvija rous oy Utah' relief situation. The. sUte the first of May in accordance director told Kin of the action with a general reduction of relief u ENDS TONITE! The "Gone With the Wind" Girl ... VIVIEN (Scarlett - O'llara) LEIGH Charles Laughton -in . "SIDEWAUvS OP LONDON" STARTS TOMORROW! Stage 9 p. m. Scml-FlnaU TELLURIDE-PARAMOUNT AMATEUIi CONTEST! . 1, j 1 -4 mm n ut i - jir rp clients throughout the nation. House Uotes to Open Amendment WASHINGTON, April 25 BJ! . The house, dissatisfied with a rule proposed for ; consideration ; of amendments to the Wage-Hour law, voted today to open the rule to amendments. The vote was 189 to 185. WASHINGTON, April 25 UJ! President Roosevelt declared today that it would be "a great mistake" to adopt the proposed Harden amendments to the controverted Wage-Hour law. ' , . Mr Roosevelt's views were communicated com-municated to Hep. Mary T. Norton; D., N. J., chairman of the house ; in Mil ' .i In hit greatest roe..a$ a "no good" guy who becomes a hu- man wildcat... when love ? rouses his sleeping sleep-ing heart! ; ! ' john ; HOWARD DOLORES DEL RIO Extra: "Old lUckpry- - News Mctro- VjtCTVW mm TONIGHT & TOMORROW y IK- : 7 .1 LEO CARRILLO I ,HENRY ARMETTA y JlH PATRICK, AND 3 SLICKER. THC SEAL f rodue.d by SOt IES&ER. Dtacttd bv Bnwd Vw4mhml Sa.an flay by Barnard ScMrt, Ion Huntw, Hcrbart Oyd Uwi. KO IAWO t , ' Hear BOBBY Sing ' "Blue Italian Waters"- L4 Voliu LAST SHOW "Rllnd 'Alibi" -'Ihermaji'' TONIGHT: . - 8:55 - - 9:55 . after. a conference with Secre tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, Jr. who has been coord inating United States plane manufacturing manu-facturing and sales. They said the allies have agreed to finance new plant expansion at three airplane engine manufacturing manufac-turing concerns in order to speed up motor production. i V ; , : The all-plane . contracts were signed for Curtiss, Douglas and Bell warplanes. Other contracts were . signed with the Allison engine division of General Motors corporation and with Wright Aeronautical corporation, corpor-ation, engine makers. Steel Company to Restore Guts r . j . NEW YORK, April ;25 (UR) Stocks moved erratically' today until near .the close when .they developed a firm tone, r Steels were strong. Coppers, motors, mo-tors, aircrafts, . railroad equipments, equip-ments, and building shares were firm. Rails, utilities and oils were narrowly mixed. 1 ; -. '. . , ' ' , . There was confusion over the action of Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation's announcement it will restore on May 1 cuts made ; lesaH than two weeks ago In steel prices of such items as hot and cold rolled roll-ed sheets and on strip.: First . re action .was. a rise- Jn the steels Then came' the belief the change would, not stabilize '.steel' price and selling broke out. A late - re covery was influenced In part; by covering in advance of the Beth lehem report due after the close, Bethlehem v steel made . a new hirh for the year at 85 un 1 3-8. U. S. Steel rose more than a point Small advances ' were noted In other steels. . - . - . FJAELJ.NESS, Swedish - Norwegian Nor-wegian Frontier, April 25 (U.R)-r-Allied troops were reported, in messages to the border today, to have reached vicinity of Roeros and to have joined with Norwegians Norweg-ians in a battle with German troops. ' ' . . " A German column moving northward from Oslo and Elverum previously had been reported in possession of Roeros, which is an important point on the railroad and highway leading toward Trondheim. Later advices said allied troops from the. Dombaas sector had arrived ar-rived in vicinity of Roeros and occupied the hills overlooking the town. . ; - The Germans apparently halted halt-ed at'Roero3 while reinforcements reinforce-ments were rushed northward along the railroad from Rena to bolster their advance units. , r Late this afternoon a battle was reported . underway either at Roeros or near the town. - x . ' y': Prom Preview For Assembly '' ' ' 1 ' - ' x i i i V Symbolic of the theme,' "Stairway "Stair-way to the Stars.' Provo hirh school's Junior class will present a Junior 'Day assembly Friday morning featuring an original skit under the .direclton of Margaret Mar-garet Wilson and Doressa Pax-man, Pax-man, JuirTbr class vice ; president and secretary. , Committees in charge of arranging ar-ranging the assembly are: Lillian Roberta, Grant Bandley, dances; Ruth' Ercan brack. Sherman Coleman, Cole-man, and Marrial Clark, dialogue; and Thalea Smith, music. Anna Smoot. English instructor. instruc-tor. Rudolph Reese; mathematics instructor, and Dorothy Richmond, Rich-mond, physical education instructor, instruc-tor, helped supervise and da-ect the. presentation. - . Library Receives Check From Club . l. . . . ; .. The Provo Public library has received a. check for $52.75. from the silver , tea sponsored April 1J by the 'Women's Council, announ ces Mrs. Mallne S. Bandley, librar ian. .... The cash will be used to pur chase much needed books for the The casualness of a cigarette does not relieve the tension shown on .the face of the British seaman at the extreme right as he scans the mine-laden seas. The job he and his companions, shewn inflating their oft-needed life belts, fulfill on the fleet of ceasless'y-Datrol-1ac, small British minesweepers is one cf the war's most darierouj and least rewarded. ..... I i.J...., A mountainous pillar of smoke and water provides a spectacular, momentary tombstone for a death-laden German mine, hannkisly exploded by British navy. Picture, one ct first to be released, shows ' result of equipping Allied ships with "de-Gaussing" device to pro-tect pro-tect them from Nazi-sown magnetic mine f-lds. -. . .. . (S library, and incluo.es ;15 donated by the children in the juvenile department de-partment at their tea held in the afternoon. . ' In behalf of the. library board, Mrs. Bandley desires to .express appreciation to the Women's Council Coun-cil members for their interest In -s- Vanderbilt Wins Own Bridge Cup 3 this worthwhile project, and to the citizens of Provo who cooperated co-operated in making the benefit tea a success. When modern man gains weight he has only to loosen his belt or have his suit let out. Knights of old had a real problem in keeping their waistlines down, for armor was costly and allowed for little expansion. TAT TT1 St"- m t i ft KEW SITIE SAUCE PANS iiti"::i:it rtr:i SIT If I $79 UT. 1 VL 2 II. ICIIIIUI f'T. lit Th rry laUri tUcg La use a wi:r.tnj rim Laf mesy to ciu. Thick AiiiSiiflcm; coci LsjS, wtx long. 3 htdy sms. C. if "in SAUCE POTS iEf tun Mitt: ..J2 s29.5 nir. . ... i ItiMM IS miTJ V bca. let map. 4l. Dcstoo r. TEA KETTLES S09B Cm. X .... ItUll 52.43; 4-ct ' -jo. cccra luicLtrj. ililf RING MOLD I i:ux ii in la pridi. Sale Ends April 30 tftUDR BROS COIRVS tlaroid S. Vanderbilt (right), originator of contract "bridge, Is pic-. pic-. tured leading his Cavendish Club team to win Vanderbilt Cup. top American bridge prize. It was only his second victory since he donated the coveted cup 13 years ago. Player in foreground is Alex Schultz. of Lone Island Team, which was runner-up among record- breaking : number of entries. Cavendish Clubbers won by -' - i' i. U v points. ' . 1 1 labor committee, who made them public. ; - - ' ' The, Barden amendments are the most drastic of three sets of proposed changes which the house began considering today; Don't Miss ' Any of the DEO 20 HIT - u., , ; p- ... J . , .. .. .( PROGRAMS -At-Pro vo's Three ' . . ' .Theatres: : PARAMOUNT UINTA PROVO r GmniiGll ras'imSminS HALL of Utah's Newest and Finest o?Ef nin Diinci . . Located at fTT5 a nn las L Follow the Search Light Beam 3 Miles West of rrovo Beautiful New Type Neon Lighting SATURDAY, APRIL 27 . i 1 SUGGEST A NAME ... ; . For This New Hall and Win $23.00 Cash : VOTING HELD SATURDAY t . At Opening Dance . ' . . Come, Hear the New HAMMOND NOVACHORD The Finest in Utah In Connection With DOB ORTON and His New BAND Featuring Lovely ZOLA SKIDMORE as Vocalist Gents 40c Ladies 10c - J "4 I'VE FOUND THE EASIEST WAT IN IntVYUnLU IU BUY TIRES ON CREDIT" Actually all I had to do for credit was to present my license certificate and I drove away in ten minutes on a set 5f f Miller "Geared-to-the-Road" tires. And I made my own terms too. That's what I call a really friendly credit piaru AUTO RADIOS BATTER I ES on Easy Terms MILLER TIRES 1C 1 Se WEEKLY KjDor mmj m mm wJj -7rr 7 127 WEST CENTi:a f 1 I 7 1 i n .Li!. !..!..: SHO -BOAT NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO PIRD ISLAND On This Rig 200 Passenger Coat! Your Ikt Trip of the Season. It is worth $5 to you, and only casts SPfor . . Otffor L4 Adults Z Children COAT GOES OUT EVERY SUNDAY. AFTERNOON Coat Leaves Provo River Mouth Every Sunday at 2:30 O'clock. 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