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Show ' Call The Herald If yea do not "receive your Herald promptly, call The Herald of rice, 495, before 7 p.m. weeks days, and . 10 a. m. Sundays, and a copy trill be delivered to yon. rze Weather TJTAII: General! j fair tonight and Friday with little change la temperature. temp-erature. Majtirotun tnnp, We&nedy, . 8-5 3Ilnlnan temp, WedreMlay . 45 FIFTY-FO.URTH YEAR, NO. 225 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKfl PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940 COMPLETE UNITED PREPS rEIJXIRAPH JNEWg BEHV1C8 PRICE FIVE CENTS iro n'Qnn 7 nn lUUL-dUVJUVJ UWL LSVJ LiWLi LI 1 Z3 i H ! I ! i , ' m i DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR . Picked up from Editor and Publisher: "A perilous line of thought has begun to appear ap-pear in this country, . rising fast on the heels of the grim news . from France, Britain, and the Low Countries. ' The apparent invincibility of the, dictator - led Germans, the apparent inability of the democracies de-mocracies to cope with the totalitarian might have combined com-bined to build in some minds here a distrust of, our own democratic processes. Already hints have appeared in print that the European emergency indicates that we should sink the partisan contest of a presidential election, even that the scheduled 1940 election elec-tion should be postponed until a quieter day. Such thinking is not thinking think-ing at all. It isxpanic It is the poisonous fear that turns a minor reserve into .1 major rout and the United States has not suffered the slightest reverse. Now,, of all times, is not the moment for considering consider-ing the abandonment of, democracy. de-mocracy. It is the, moment for proof that democracy, true democracy, can be made : to operate ' under stress in th hands of people wno . have made it succeed for more than 150 years." The May flowers are finally beginning to appear. Any re semblance to the pictures on the seed packet is entirely co incidental. . , oOo Cotton stamps; and flour stamps may have their place in the national scheme of things, but what the U. S. suffers most from is a sur plus of corn, as any listener to the radio swing bands can verify. MERRY GO-ROUND A Dally Picture of What Goisg On in National ' Affairs By DREW PEARSON r ROBERT g. ALLEN Mortgage on y British - Fleet Proposed To Enable Loans Under Johnson Act; U. S. Determined to Oppose Nazi Seizure of Greenland With Armed Force; Stock Marks ets' Almost Were - Shut Down After Disastrous Break On Friday; Selling Had ; No Technical Cause But Fear: FDR Decided To Defer Action. WASHINGTON" L.' W. (Chip) Robert, secretary of the Democratic Demo-cratic National Committee, has a plan for refunding: war debts, also 'for selling' more supplies to the Allies . and at the same time ensuring: Western Hemisphere defense. de-fense. , Briefly put, it is to take a mortgage on the British fleet in lieu of war debts. , ; . - . In other words, the British would make a small" token payment, pay-ment, then promise to turn their fleet over to the United States on the war debt in case , of default, rn return, the Johnson Act would ' become Inoperative, and the United States would extend immediate im-mediate war credits.' . . , . Behind this, of, course. Is not so much the matter of war debts, but the very , real fear that the United States may lose Its greatest great-est bulwark of protection the British fleet. .How Important . the .British fleet Is to American defense is only just percolating to the general gen-eral public. . Real fact,1 however is that the United States is not now prepared ; to defend: both the Pacific Pa-cific and Alan tic coasts, and will not be prepared for four i more (Continued Page Three, Sec; Two) HERBERT HW ENTERS RACE FOR GOl'EOR President Of State Senate To Seek the Nomination Dr. Herbert B. Maw, mem ber of the state senate for ten years, and its President for four years, prominent Utah educator and former dean of the University of Utah, an nounced his candidacy for VhS nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket, at a public mass meeting . which attracted supporters from all parts of the state to the "Newhouse . hotel in Salt Lake City, . Wednesday eve ning. 1 - ' Prominent for years in the af fairs of the Democratic party. Dr. Maw outlined a comprehensive platform on which he will seek election to the states hignest office. of-fice. ' ' : Dr. Maw dealt at length with the need for encouragement of small business to keep the state s wealth within its boundaries, and the necessity for offering substantial substan-tial inducement toy young people to remain in Utah. He scoffed at rumors that all present state employees em-ployees would be discharged if he were elected, and said reports that he ; had promised appointments appoint-ments to various ! persons " and groups were ridiculous; adding: "all appointments will be based on efficiency and loyalty," During his service in the state senate, Dr. Maw sponsored old age utility regulation, labor and many other types of legislation designed 10 neip tne common people,.,, -u ' Dr. Maw called attention to his staunch support of President Roosevelt and the' New Deal and his determined fight against the opposition.' ? - - , Dr. Maw was born or Utah pioneers pio-neers on March 11, 1893, in Og-den, Og-den, and was educated in the .public .pub-lic schools of - Og'den and Salt Lake City and the I D.-S. high school. He received his L. I B. degree from - the University of Utah; - B.. 8.- from the University of Utah; M. A. from Northwestern University, where he also received his. .Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. de-gree. He was admitted to the bar in Utah in 1916. , Dr. Maw enlisted in the U. S. army in 1917, and went overseas with the 89th division, where he served in the St. Mihiel and Ar school in the L. D. S. hls:h school. and is professor of speech-at the University of Utah. He was a member of , the general board of the Y, M. M, L A. from 1928 to 1935, and since then has been a member of the Deseret Sunday School Union general board. From 1929 to 1938' he was a member of the Utah state senate, serving as its president from 1935 to 1938 Inclusive. He was married in 1922 to Florence Flor-ence Buehler, and they have had five children, four of whom are living. CROMWELL RESIGNS CANADIAN POSTv WASHINGTON, May 23.(t33?T-Canadian 23.(t33?T-Canadian : Minister James H. R. Cromwell has formally resigned his post ,to undertake the senatorial sena-torial race In New Jersey, wnere he won the Democratic nomina tion Tuesday. -SV- Mcfarlane Candidate For Attorney-General Grant Macfarlane, state senator from Salt Lake county, member of the house of representatives for two terms, former assistant in the offices of the county and city attorney at-torney and prominent Salt Lake City lawyer, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic ; nomination for attorney general of ' Utah In the September primary. Mr. Macfarlane is the fourth candidate to come out . for the Democratic nomination as attorney-general. The others, are Judge Allen G. Thurman, Grover A. Giles, Salt Lake City and George S. Bal-lif Bal-lif of Provo. Mr: Macfarlane was born in St. George, Utah, 41 years ago, - and moved with his family to Beaver, where they resided until he was five years old. For the last 36 years, he has been a resident of Salt Lake City. He graduated with an A. B; degree - from the ' school of business at the Univer- ( Continued on Page Four) - In' the Race I? ' -x I r - - i i - i ; . ., ,j ;; , f " ' I At HERBERT B. 11AW. Provo Greets Friendship ' Tour Tonite Bringing with them the greetings greet-ings of Salt Lake City, 110 members mem-bers of the Salt Lake' chamber of commerce, starting their heralded friendship tour to Utah and Colo rado cities, arrive in Provo at 6:10 this evening. An hour later , the group, with more, than a hundred leading Utah county businessmen as . their guests, wiU banquet ' at the exhibit ex-hibit room - at the county fair grounds. f J. C. , Moffitt, president of the Provo chaniber of : commerce, will be master ' of v ceremonies, and speakers will be Dr. Christen Jen sen, acting president of Brigham Young university r Frank' J. Earl, past president and present direc tor of the Provo chamber of com merce; Herbert A. Snow, president of the Salt Lake chamber, . and Wilson McCarthy, also , of the Salt Lake group. - , Strawberry Crop Is niponing Fast Utah county's . 1940 strawberry crop is coming on fast, and probably prob-ably wiU reach its peak early next week, said Clarence D:Ashton, as sistant county : agent,' today. - "The berries were never finer, Mr. -Ashton stated,, although the rtiialfhr la ' snraaiirhflt - loca than ' during the past -few years. advised housewives that next week will be a splendid time to can berries. The fruit, he said, is of the finest fin-est quality. Cool weather has provided pro-vided excellent growing weather, making for "more berry and less seeds." The berries are clean and free from mud. there havinsr been no heavy rains ' during the past few weeks. The crop is ripening fast, and already some berries - are on" the market. Coming Events Rotary club, Friday, 7 p. m. Hotel Roberts. Annual girls' night Program, under ; direction of Ed Firmage,- chairman, LaMar- May-cock, May-cock, Earl Smoot, David Beesley and W.E. Ramshaw. ...... f GRANT MACFARLANE. HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION SET FRIDAY 216 Seniors Slated To Receive Diplomas , i At Exercise : Graduation exercises . for 216 Provo high school senior students will be held Friday at 8 p. m. in the stake taber- r-acle, announces Kenneth Jb. Weight, principal. . Highlights of the Provo high exercises will be the tra ditional march from school to tabernacle, tab-ernacle, awarding of Knight Man-gum Man-gum scholarships, presentation of graduates by Principal Weight, and awarding of diplomas by Mrs. George S. Ballif, board of education educa-tion president. .'-; While students are marching from the school, preliminary music vill be furnished at the tabernacle by a brass quintet composed of Dean Boshard, Norine Miner, OTrl Mehl, Junior Hulsh, and Frank Beck. The graduation march in to the tabernacle will be accom panied by Jay Keeler, organist. - Provo high's orchestra, under the direction of Wesley Pearce, will open the program with "Sym phony No, ,7, Finale."- Rosemary Hanseen, senior, will offer, the Invocation, In-vocation, w:-:r v :': ':'. - A chorus of ; graduates, under Ernest Paxman, will . sing "Kashmiri "Kash-miri Song," accompanied by Marie Ma-rie Newren. J ' - Berneda Lynn, senior, will give the address of welcome to the as sembled crowd and graduates. Georgia Sorenson will follow tne opening address with a violin solo, "Ceardas," accompanied by Jtrs. J.' u.. Hiigendortf. ' y . ; . Valedictory addresses will be made by Helen Hickman, and Jean Ruff, both outstanding senior students stu-dents in scholarship and school activities. : . . , . Eugene Faux,' student ;. body president, will render a cello solo, "Concerto No. 5, First Movement." Georgia Cullimore Is accompanist. - Announcement of students to re ceive coveted Knight and Man- gum f university - scholarships will be made following the cello solo, ; : Following the awards, combined A capella chorus under Mr. Pax- man will "render ; two numbers, "Two Guitars" and "Listen to the Lambs." ;.vyr?. : 'm.- vv" Principal y Weight will present tne senior students for graduation, after which Mrs. Ballif will award diplomas in a traditional ceremony as tne graduates rue past. Robert Curtis, senior, will offer tne benediction. - .. WAR RELIEF; DRIVE IS ON Have you given your donation Co the Red Cross for the European war relief fund? The drive is still in progress In Provo under the direction of Rev, E, F. Erwin and in the county under the direction of Dr. J... Weight. :, - -. . . ' '- y ' . While workers report a good reponse as far, as solicitation has gone, the money is trickling in too slowly to reach the goal of S1000 in Provo before Saturday night. The county goal is also $1000. Those who have not been solicit ed are invited to, leave their con tributions at any of the banks or at the Red Cross office, 108 West Center, or at the chamber of commerce office. Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York . . ... 200 000 0 Detroit ... . . ' 200 000 0 ' Ruffing and Dickey; Newsom and Sullivan. Philadelphia .... 000 030 0 Chicago 120 010 0 Babich and Hayes; Lee and Tresh. Boston a Cleveland, postponed, rain. . ' . Washington St. Louis . . 001 100 , NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Philadelphia, night game. Cincinnati at New York, postponed, postpon-ed, rain. . - " Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, postponed, postpon-ed, -rain. - - - - - - School Levy Is Raised' To 17 Mills Bond Payments Due, Re- quires Higher Provo Levy " Faced with three possibili ties curtailing the school program, refinancing instead of retiring bonds as they are due, or raising the tax levy the Provo board of education Wednesday night chose the latter and hiked the levy from 15.5 mills in 1939-40. to 17 mills for 1940-41 in adopting a budget of S311.29L28 for the en suing year. i The action was taken at a pub lic hearing in the Central school building, attended by some 40 citizens, citi-zens, including several directors of the chamber of commerce and principals of aU the city schools. Also present was M. H. Harris, Salt Lake City, executive secretary secre-tary of the Utah Taxpayers' association, asso-ciation, who attended . at the invitation invi-tation of the school board. He opined that the expenditures could be met without boosting the levy, estimating that the tax collections will be slightly higher than the board calculated, and advocating increasing the teacher load, thiis reducing the staff. ' No Provo citizens protested the budget or-the raise in levy, and a. few of them, apparently satisfied, satis-fied, left after J. C. Moffitt, super- ntendent of schools, had made a oncrete explanationusing charts, graphs and statistics of revenues expected . and expenditures that must be made. -7 Mr. Moffitt pointed out that ;the board must pay $30,000 for bond y (Continued on Page Four) - Pc:s on Electric Donis Saturday - - . Mayor, Mark - Anderson today reiterated his request that the Provo voters go to the polls Saturday Sat-urday to cast their ballots in the important municipal power bond ordinance election. ' The voters will be asked to approve ap-prove two - propositions at the polls: y.- 1. ; Refunding of the $850,000 revenue 'bonds, isued last June for providing funds to construct the municipal power plant, at a re duced interest rate. ' : 2. Issuance of $350,000 in additional addi-tional revenue bonds for expanding expand-ing the generating capacity of the plant, if and when such expansion ex-pansion is needed. : The r mayor pointed out that whereas the present Interest rate on the bonds is 4 Vi' per cent, the city can cut that figure to approximately ap-proximately 2V4 per cent through refunding the $850,000. Over the life of the bonds this would prove to be a saving of $129,868.75, hfe declared. ! He regarded as especially Important Im-portant the authorization of the $350,000 in additional .bonds, pointing out that the city, by expanding ex-panding its facilities, can obtain standby power far cheaper than it can be purchased from Utah Power and Light company. .. The polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Saturday. -From 1 to 8 d. m.. Friday a free bus will operate between the business center ana the mu- nlclpal power plant, so that per sons who haven't visited the plant way uu so iree vi cziarge. Beauty Contest Winner .Wins Free Trip to Fair '' . ' "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest of them all? And the answer to that query, as far as Central and Southern Utah's good-looking on its wav to beiner answered. S- But the final decision, or course, will be made at the big July 4th celebration in Provo. As a prelude to the mammoth bathinsr beautv contest, which is one of the highlights of the cli maxing show at the B. Y. u. stadium sta-dium on the night of July th, Provo city and her neighboring communities are already getting their preliminary contests under way. Launched this week are the beauty contests in Provo, in Spanish Span-ish Fork and In Payson. In these three cities, mirrors are being polished by fair young- beau HEARING FOR L1ATI1IS Oi! I,! CITY COURT Early Ruling Expected Following Preliminary Prelim-inary Hearing BULLETIN . Judge Tuckett ordered the tearing continued late this afternoon to Jane 6, taking under un-der advisement, the motion for illsmlAAal, made by J. Kulon Morgan attorney for Mathl. The defense was given five days . - In whlcb to file a brief. Tne state was granted two more days for filing of m brief. With the city courtroom jammed wifa people, the pre liminary hearing for iMilton Mathis, 24 - year-old Provo WPA worker, charged with voluntary " manslaughter in connection with the Yafal shooting of George Gerald Jas person, 18, April 30, moved towards completion this after noon, with City Judge LeRoy Tuckett on the bench. Three witnesses testified for the state during the morning ses sion. Two more Sheriff John S. Evans and Arnel S. Miler, Provo policemen were on the stand this afternoon. Ruling Expected The case was expected to go to Ju'dge Tuckett for a ruling in midafternoon. Witnesses testifying during the morning session were LeGrande Jasperson. 19, 76 North Fourth East, tTother of Gerald and trother-in-5aw"of MAthis- "Veri Jasperson, 18, 649 East Third North, Gerald's cousin, and Dr. Charles M. Smith, city physician. The two Jaspersons were pres ent during the family row at tne Mathis home, 210 West Fourth South, when the fatal shooting occurred, while Dr. Smith ex amined Gerald's body after tne youth had been killed. The youths, , telling substantial ly the same story as they did at the inquest, said they accompanied accom-panied Gerald to the Mathis home the night' of the shooting to ob tain a pair of classes " belonrinrr to Robetta, Mathis wife and sister of LeGrande and Gerald, who earlier in the day had deserted de-serted her husband. They said Gerald demanded the glasses, Mathis refused, and after unsuccessfully orderinsrthe trio out of the house, loaded his gun, declaring TU. give you 10 minutes to get out." LeGrande grabbed the barrel of the gun. which was pointed at Gerald, and a shot was discharged, dis-charged, the bullet striking Gerald Ger-ald in the abdomen, according to tne testimony. On crosa -examination J. RuJon Morgan, defense attorney, asked LeGrande if he thought the gun would have been fired had he not grabbed the barrel, to vthicn the witness replied: "More taan likely not." "As a matter of Tact," Morgan propounded, "you don't llgure Milt shot that gun at all, do you?" LeGrande said, "No." Representing the state were County Attorney Arnold C. Koy-lance Koy-lance and Deputy County Atto ney Elmer Terry. Mathis, who sat beside his attorney at the trial, is at liberty on bond. He was not expected to be called as a witness during tne preliminary. - girls are concerned, is already ties as they query their own at tractive reflection: "The Fairest of them ailT To be even more explicit, any girl interested in competing for a free trip to the World's Fair In San Francisco with a companion all expenses paid together with spending money for incidentals and ether possible prizes from business houses In their own community com-munity and in Provo, can make application for their entry blank right today. In Provo, the bathing beauty contest Is being sponsored by the (Continued on Tage Four) 'asion In England With . 3 Fall Oi" Calais in Danger; Loss of Channel Ports is Grave Peril To Million Allied Troops in Belgium, North France By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Prm Forrtgn News Editor ; German columns smashed into Boulogne, a scant CO miles across the channel from Britain today, and brought to Er.-land Er.-land the imminent peril of invasion. British troops were fighting desperately to drive back the Germans, who arrived at Boulogne with a powerful armored arm-ored column. London warned that loss of the channel port would be a terrible blow, and that if Boulogne fell, Calais probably soon would become Troop in Peril - Loss of these channel ports would place the Allied army of approximately 1,000.000 men in north France and Belgium in grave peril. Unless It could fight its way "through tl:e German corridor it would be forced to attempt evacuation with Inadequate port facilities under the shattering bomb attack of the German air force. The fall of Boulogne was said by German spokesmen to be possible, pos-sible, and even probable, but they declined to say tne port already had been . occupied by their ccfi-umns. ccfi-umns. - , , The grave news of Boulogne" was given to the British house of commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who admitted the outcome of the battle was not certain. , -Series of Blows ' . .Churchill's statement Indicating Indicat-ing the German offensive had tre ated chaos and Imperilled perhaps a million Allied fighting men in Flanders climaxed a series of trip-hammer blows on the home fronts and the war fronts: . 1. The German high command reported " encirclement -of Allied forces was squeezing the British back from the Scheldt river, that German troop were smashing all Allied counter blows and driving northward from the Somme valley toward Calais, which is 22 miles from Dover. The Germans said they bombed the Dover harbor works, but London denied it. 2. The British admitted the French channel ports were under such severe bombardment they could be used only part f the i (Continued on. Page Four) Senate Votes For Record Navy Bill WASHINGTON, Slay 23 (U.R The senate, voting billions bil-lions for national defense at a break-neck race, today approved ap-proved a $1,473,756,723 navy appropriation bi3 to hasten warship construction and expand the naval air force. The senate spent leas than inS nour ana m oau uic uu. j Passage was by & vote of 78 to nothing. Only late yesterday it had approved ap-proved unanimously a J 1.823.23.2,-724 1.823.23.2,-724 measure for rapid expansion of the army. Thus, In less than 25 hours, the senate has voted , IZ.Z'Jl.VJ-jn for dcfen.se. Of that amount $z. S02.28S.I26 is in cash which the services can start spending as soon as the bills are elgned by the president. The rest la in contract authorizations. Other defense developments: President Rooeevelt will deliver a "fireside' radio chat to the nation na-tion on Sunday night, reporting on the progress of the' preparedness prepared-ness program and outlining all phases of the .situation. lie will Epeak on the three major networks from 9:30 to 10 p. m.. E. S. T. Former President Herbert Hoo ver likewise made arrangements to discuss national defense problems on the same night. Hoover will speak from 6:30 to 7 p. m., E.S.T. Secretary of the Treasury Hen ry Morgenthau, Jr.. disclosed the government Is seeking to speed mass production of airplanes by obtaining licenses on planes and engines to which some manufac turers now have exclusive rights. The government will spread tiwAe licenses among other companies. Mr. Roosevelt met with mem bers of the business advisory coun cil to discuss in general terms the co-operation which he expects from Industry In carrying out the defense preparations. Some of the prominent men in this group may be chosen as liaison men be tween the government and Indus-try. eared. Boulogne untenable. S ' ITALY MAKES MORE DEMANDS ROME, May 23 (CD Italy demands on the democracies hav been almost doubled as a re-s:Ut of the war In which she regards herself as a moral ally of Germany, Ger-many, well informed political quarters said today. ' The Increased demands were said to Include control of French Tunisia, where before Italy sou?r.X only special status for Italians virtual dominance of the Suei Canal, where previously ItaJy hd sought only a share in. stockholders stockhold-ers bonds equal to thoae of Britain" Brit-ain" and " France: Italian control of all Sommaiiland, where before she -asked only a free port of Djibouti. Complete control of the island" is-land" of Malta where the Britiah Mediterranean tise is located, was demanded in the press. Ths Gibraltar situation was uncertain tut it was learned Italy ir. tends to ask for Spanish control cf the Britis'a fort as long as Spain continues con-tinues her present- pro-Axis policy. pol-icy. . Italy's new thesis ar-peared to be that her aspirations couid no longer be regarded aa the wra as those before the wax but tnuit now be considered in the light that Italy is morally engaged in the war alongside Germany. -5- m Ihis Day.. CORN Girl, to Jarr.es P. and Cieo Lnr.g Martin, at New Brunei ick, New Jersey. LICE-VSED TO 51AI1EY Boyd Pulley. 3-0. Log.rs, rrl Beth Paxman. 23, Provo. Wayne McLntyre, 25, Provo, ani Edith Marsh. 24. Alpine. AUNT HET By Bobext QoilLm "Our ycKi.ng doctor he ain't afraid of dth, but I wasn't either at hi aye. It don't iwem prrnooaj Ull yoa get ckwrr to It- |