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Show TT T" Of -T"0 TN TTT T WAV ICOBiSS rie Weather ii i j m.in Call The Herald If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call The Ilerald office, 4S5. before 7 n. m. weelc da va. ana 10 am. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, D ESJ& GHAT UY THE EDITOR Provo has been invaded by the strong arm of the law! ' Early this morning; the city was "taken" by several hundred men and their wives, who came here as delegates to the annual convention of the Utah Peace Officers association, associa-tion, in session at the Elks home today and tomorrow. Sheriff Grant iYoung of Salt Iake county,' presfdent of the association, is " the man in charge who swings a wicked gavel. Provo welcomes ' invasions of this kind; and the Ilerald joins with the citizens In extending ex-tending greetings to all dele-gates, dele-gates, wishing them a successful suc-cessful convention here. Peace officers have many problems in common. . With federal, state and local agencies agen-cies all. interested in law enforcement, en-forcement, conventions of this kind provide a much-needed clearing house for. the sifting of ideas and viewpoints.; The Officers who represent constituted law. and order deserve de-serve constant' support and co-operation in their difficult task- of ;law, enforcement. Modern progress and the uni- " versal use of the -motor vehicle ve-hicle has brought new problems prob-lems of traffic regulation, which former generations never dreamed" of1 .Without jiome measure jofjiublifi supi port! the officers can't hope Jo accomplish the task to which they have been as signed. ; ' For the threatened invasion, of the British Isles, the Nazis are said to be contemplating towing troops across the channel chan-nel in submarine-drawn trailers. trail-ers. The trailer was all that was - needed to make this mechanized war complete. -oOo Our communist party men rally to the "peace policy" of the Soviet Union. What small neutral in these regions can they have in mind for invasion inva-sion next winter? MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Pictur of What'i Coizg On in National " Affairs BY DHXW rRARSOK aai EOOJCST . ALLEN Democratic Hopefuls Scramble Scram-ble For Second Place, Figuring Figur-ing FDR Will Run; Jackson is White House Pet But Geography May ' Select I J .1 O A.! Art y iieu oenumem sweeps xxa-tion. xxa-tion. W. A. White Gettfng , J tuge Response. WASHINGTON Tip-off on the third term question . Is the extent to which the Democratic hopefuls,- who up until recently were campaigning for the presidential presi-dential nomination, now are preoccupied pre-occupied with Jockeying: for the vice .. presidency. . : They, not only " take it for granted that Roosevelt wUl run again, but they , are . not even arguing about it. Onlv exception Is Jim Farley. He still . Is as Irreconcilable as ever. New Dealers attribute this to the fact that Roosevelt's candidacy can-didacy : means -finis for Jim's chances for a place on the ticket. . ' (Both he and FDR are - 'from New York.) , Whatever"- the ' reason, rea-son, he Is standing pat on his , opposition to a third term. J Behind the scenes, however, the others . are falling all over themselves them-selves scrambling ' for a . position on the bandwagon.' Not the . least among them ft Jack , Garner. Publicly, he has refused ' to say whether he would , run with Roosevelt . again, but i his intimates - are v boosting him hard.' , 1 . I Similarly, ' friends 'of Burt (Continued on Page Two, Sec Two) : , . ' - jflFiriii'ii"" NO. 236 gffiJKfe 5SDS5fc,S 2125 ......SPTOVOVTAIteCOUNTYiUTAH, 200 OFFICERS, VJIlSATTEt'D CONFAB HERE Traffic ' Control, Press , Relations Discussed . ' By Speakers - With, "nearly 200 law enforcement en-forcement officers from all sections of the state in attendance, attend-ance, the ' eighteenth annual convention of the Utah State Peace Officers association opened at the Elks club today. to-day. The confab will continue through Saturday. , i Members of the ladies' auxiliary, while their husbands were in ses sion this morning, made a pleasure excursion to Utah lake, with Mrs. Arnel S. Milner-of Provo in charge. Subjects aired by the peace offi cers Included traf tic safety, press- police relations, conduct on the witness stand, and the officers' part in the national defense program. pro-gram. Speakers were - Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo, who welcomed the delegates; D. C. ' Snedaker. Evanston, 111., of the division of safety, International Association of Chiefs of Police, who discussed traffic safety; H. P. Kretchman, editor of the Salt . Lake Telegram; Tele-gram; ''.Relationship 'Between Law Enforcement Officers and -the Press"; and John S. Boyden, SalL! Lake City, assistant u. S. district attorney, ."The Officer on y the Witness . Stand.. s. : , S. .Grant Young, sheriff of Salt Lake county , and president of the association presided, and responded respond-ed briefly, declaring: the peace officers, through their association, associa-tion, have become , better pre-( pre-( Continued on Page Three) , LUA. Conference ntlrccts,10,COD At First Session . SALT LAKE CITY, June 7 (EE) Nearly ten thousand delegates from mo$t of the states of the union convened in Salt Lake City today for the forty-fifth annual conference of the L. D. S. .Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement associations. . . The Primary associatlonv'nold-lng associatlonv'nold-lng its thirty-eighth conference, also opened sessions today, with stake. .leaders' meeting lna ; preliminary pre-liminary discussion .this morning. A general festival session opened open-ed M. I. A. conference. Delegates crowded the vL. D. S. tabernacle to hear addresses of welcome by George 'ty Morris, general super intendent and David O. JicK.ay member of the church first presidency. presi-dency. .' Dance Festival Tonight V nurinsr th three dav conven tion, .the program' for the .coming year was to be outlined, au tne allied and . subordinate orgamza tiona of the M. I, A. and Primary associations scheduled meetings during the day, with choral work, speech and drama expected to feature the afternoon sessions. An annual, feature, Ihe M. I. A. dance festival, will be held tonight to-night at Saltair, with three thousand thou-sand picked dancers offering or: ganizatlon and ,folk routines. ; The Saturday convention sessions ses-sions will be . devoted to departmental depart-mental meetings, except for one general - conference scheduled for the afternoon at the tabernacle. All groups of the II. L A. and Primary divisions wilj Join in the concluding session Sunday, under direction of the L. D. S. first presidency-' , Stoy Lodge Men Will Visit Price Mmbers of the Story ; Lodge N6.4. F. A A. M. will go to Price Saturday to - participate in the sessions , there incident to the conferring con-ferring of the master degree. A 9 will be at the Masonic temple tor tne . convenience of members ho need transportation,' time' of eparture to be 5:30, : r tf ill i'l'ini i"iiiVi-riiii''i'".'ii"- vvVi t -iVr iiV-ii'iii - -V-i ri'i ';n - i - A Utah Peace Officers Tn 2-Day Convention Here X sr s Sheriff S. Grant Young of Salt Lake county, left, president not. association, welcomed . to" Provo by .Mayor Mark Anderson . -t ; ma ' 'J ill' mi. H 1 J r V 5 L. " L. Fryer, captain of the Utah State Highway patrol, right, tensen of Provo, receive badges at the 'registiat ion table from : "5- Bakeball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUK Detroit , 001 132 000 7 Boston ........ 000 000 001 1 Newhbuser and Tebbetts;.Butland, Wagner (6) and Desautels. Cleveland t V ; v . . 013 000 00 New York ..... J 110 000 10 Feller and Hemsley; Breuer -and Dickey. . ? . ' St. Louis 000 200 000 2 Philadelphia V . . . 000 010 101 3 Kennedy and Swift; Potter and Hayes. Chicago ...... 000 001 Washington .... 001 000 . Knott and Tresh; Leonard and Ferrell. , NATIONAL LEAGUE New York . St Louis. .. 000 300 Brooklyn ...... 000 200 Cincinnati ..... 000 Oil Pressnell and Phelps; Walters and Lombard!. . Boston . . . , . . . . Chicago' ....... 000 002 : . 000 010 ' Lopez ; Passeau Errickson and and Collins. . Philadelphia '... .040 000 000 4 Pittsburgh ... 021 02O 23x 10 Beck, Si Johnson (3) and At wood; M. Brown, Lanning (2) and Davis, hn'' - 'i - ii' - ' - '' - ''' - ':'' - ' - ' - ' - ' it v 1 . State Road ! 1 1 ; I f '! i Utah County Told Importance of super highways to fill the needs of traffic 3afety, national defense, and ordinary travel, was emphasized by Preston G. Peterson, ,vice chairman of the state road commission, com-mission, who addressed a large group of Provo businessmen VJhiting Bid Lou On Canyon Job ; SALT LAKE CITY; June. 7 (HE) The Utah road commission an nounced late today that Floyd Sy Whiting of Salt Lake city nas suo-mitted suo-mitted a low bid of $199,233.26 for reconstruction of the ; highway from Deer Creek dam to Charleston. Charles-ton. - The W. W. Clyde Co. ofSpring-ville ofSpring-ville was low bidder on the ' Garden Gar-den City-Logan canyon summit project, The Clyde company bid $57,680.60. - ' TEMPLE EXCURSION . Reservation to ' participate in the Sixth ward Logan temple excursion ex-cursion should be made by Sunday Sun-day to any one of the three committee-' members : Karl J. Harris, Dan Webster, or Mrs. Lyda Nor- ton, U IS he Vtah,, State Peace Officers' i i i and Chief of Police Guy F. Miss Lois Gee. Chria- Work In 9at Hotel Roberts today, . The meeting, sponsored by the chamber of commerce, was attended attend-ed ,: by; members ' of the Kiwanls, Rotary and Lions clubs, members of the - chamber and other interested inter-ested " persons. Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the chamber of commerce, com-merce, was chairman. , . Mr. Peterson outlined the Utah State road commission's 1940 construction con-struction program in Utah county, which amounts to several hundred thousand dollars, but prior to discussing dis-cussing the various projects devoted de-voted considerable time to highways high-ways and their relation to national defense, and the road commission's commis-sion's efforts to provide Utah with an ultra-splendid - highway system. sys-tem. The need for wide, fast highways in national defense was emphasized. empha-sized. Mr. Peterson said that at this time the western states are largely fed by Intermountain' districts, dis-tricts, and that if every railroad were blown up food coi'M be.sup- ; Continued on Par- j 1 '?y-?- "!ff - , FRIDAY, JUNE 7, PROVO -BANK LIQUIDATION COMPLETED Remaining Assets Sold To Salt Lake City. Banker Today, Liquidation of the Provo Commercial & Savings bank, which' closed March 15,' 1933, was completed today when remaining re-maining assets "of the bank were sold for $82 500 to J. C. Whittaker, Salt Lake -City banker, at a hearing in Judge Dallas H Young's Fourth district court ; ---'v i 1 .-."" Mr. Whittaker will pay the $82,-500 $82,-500 in cash as soon as the assets are signed over to him.' and shortly short-ly thereafter, a final dividend will be paid the depositors, according to W. J. Anderson, assistant examiner ex-aminer in charge. - ' . : . The ; assets were", sold to Mr. Whittaker after- he had outbid Julian Clawson, Salt Lake City. Mr. Whittaker's initial bid filed with the state banking department depart-ment was for 181,500. Other bids filed - included Alex Hedquist, Provo, $76,500, and C. L. . Mann, $75,000. ' - . The. original Whittaker bid was raised' an even -$1000 during the bidding against Mr. Cl.wson. - - In attendance v was . . a large crowd of spectators. Including several sev-eral depositors. Dan B'. Shields, Salt Lake City, legal representative representa-tive of the banking . department. was present , ; : 7 ' . Liquidation of the bank has been in charge of Rulon F. Starley, J state Danxv commissioner spencer Taylor, 'examiner in charge," and Mr. Anderson. ' . The bids wefe made on the assets, as-sets, as listed at their book value in the Inventory of April J.7, 1940. The assets Included: 7:' . Loans, most of which are -unsecured, $103,830.96; stocks and 'securities, 'se-curities, $2202.48; overdrafts, $179.75; judgments taken, $28,-919.13; $28,-919.13; ' costs , on " judgments, $220.40; stockholders liability unpaid, un-paid, $4400; stockholders' liability reduced to judgment $3932.85; bank building, $30,126; furniture and fixtures, $15,011.94;' real es tate, $44,007.70; J real estate sold under contract $4000, and advances, ad-vances, $12,630.06, Jouco UotcG for Hciv Lafcor Doard WASHINGTON,: June 7 EE) The ' house voted today to abolish present National Labor Relations board and create a new one divested di-vested of administrative functions. WASHINGTON, June 7(U.R) The house today voted 178, to 111 to substitute the dras- ' tie Smith bill for the Norton blU of moderate amendments to the .Wagner act. This action ac-tion wUl bring up the Smith bill for a final vote. . WASHINGTON. June 7 . (EE) The house today rejected by voice vote an amendment to the National Na-tional Labor Relations act which would replace the present labor board with a five-man agency. The amendment, by Rep. Fred Hartley, R N. J., was the same proposal submitted more than a year ago by the American Federation, Fed-eration, of Labor. . . The house has under consideration consider-ation a biU by Rep. Howard, W. Smith, D., Va, chairman of 'the NLRB Investigating committee, proposing 17 drastic revisions of the present labor law. Hartley's measure ' was offered as an amendment to the Smith bill. - This Day ... BIRTHS ' Boy to Ralph B. and Gertrude Olsen Keeler of Grantsville. LICENSED TO MARRY LaThalr Hales Curtis, 23. Provo, and Lois Gene Tobler, 19, Bunker- ville, Nev. Isaac Adelbert Beckstead, 19, Spanish Fork, and Fern Udon Gouge, 19, Lel4 -' -' ' 1940 fa) Jl Heads Lions EUGENE E. SPEAKMAM SPEAKL1AN TO LEAD-LIONS Eugene E. Speakman. manager of the Provo Drug, is the new president of-4.be Provo Lions club. lie wa elected to succeed iien-neth iien-neth -D. Craven at . the meeting held Thursday night at the Haase cafe. - Other officers named were J. Rulon Morgan, first vice president; presi-dent; Dr. Da Costa Clark, second vice president; Francis Giles, third vice president; Thomas Gessford and Lee - Snarr, directors, two- year term; Paul Hulsh, tail twister twist-er and Don Barlow, lion tamer. . Holdover directors are Harry Dixon - and Ray A. Hansen. Mr. Craven also becomes a director. The new " officers . will name the secretary. The post is now held by Clarence Ellertson. , Installation cf the new officers will be carried out at the meeting to be held July 2. The program is under the direction of Victor E. Hedquist, A. C.Hatch and Leslie Carle. .1 One of the first official duties of Mr. Speakman. i as incoming (Continued on Page Three) r Roosevelt to Ask For Power to rade In' Arms s WASHINGTON, June 7 OLE) President Roosevelt said today he Is asking congress for power to trade In guns for sale to the embattled em-battled Allies, In a manner similar to that In which the government already is sending 50 navy reserve planes back to the manufacturer to be sent to France and England. j The president said he already has authority to trade in planes arid ammunition for replacement by manufacturers, but lacks autho-orlty autho-orlty to effect such trade-ins for guns. . He said he referred specifically to large quantities of French and British 75-mm field guns which have been In storage in the army ordnance department since 1919. This type of gun has proved effective ef-fective during the last few weeks against German tank attacks. Mr. Roosevelt made no estimate of how many guns might be turned back to manufacturers on a replacement re-placement basl. He said specifically 50 navy reserve re-serve planes are being turned back to the Curti3s company to be replaced re-placed by modernized righting ma-c ma-c nines protected by armor and puncture - proof gasoline tank. The old planes will go to the Allies. Al-lies. Mr. Roosevelt offered no estimate esti-mate of how many more planes mieht thus be turned back. He said he had fieard nothing of reports re-ports ome army planes are flying across country toward the east coast for posib!e similar tracer. Mr. Roosevelt said he would not send congress a message requesting request-ing the power to turn back runs on a trade-In basis. That CeUU har, been handled in conversations with his congressional leaders, he eaid. 1 "J uwL lit IT. VI I: Generally fair tonight and Saturday; little chance la temperature. temp-erature. Maximum tnp, Thursday ... 10 Minimum temp Thursday .-. . 29 PRICE FIVE CENTS NAZI TROOPS TREBLED Ot WEYGMJD LlilE All Italian Ships Or dered To Remain In Home Ports By JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign New Editor Italian entry into the European Euro-pean war today appeared to be drawing: closer as Rome reported incidents between Italian forces and British troops in Africa,, and the presence of native forces led by former emperor fiaile Selassie Se-lassie of Ethiopia or a trusted lieutenant. On the western front Germany was reported to have trebled the. forces attacking the Weygand line and to have driven within aeven miles of SoLssons, 52 miles from Paris. , Ship Remain- . The Italian Hne In New York reported re-ported all Italian ships have been ordered to remain In neutral ports or proceed to neutral refuge. Rome asserted troops afe massed on either side of the border between be-tween Ethiopia and the British African colony of Kenya, and that frontir " 1rrcdpritshs occurrt-d aJreadyT" Selassie, an ' exile trt Britain cince Italian conquest of Ethiopia, was reported in Rome to have secretly se-cretly proceeded to the Sudan, adjacent ad-jacent to Ethiopia, and it was asserted as-serted he or a trusted lieutenant was now in charge of native forces massed on. the Ethiopian frontier. The Rome reports brought the imminent possibility that a spark , from frontier incidents in AfricS might touch off full-scale Italian entry Into the war as Germany" ally. , ; Reports .from Paris indicated the Germans had thrown all their reserves into action in an attempt to smash through the flexible defense de-fense system established by Gen. Maxime Weygand. . . The greatest German effort seemed to be centered near SoLssons, SoLs-sons, where the Germans were said to have hurled 1,000 massed tanks into a battle for control of Che rain . des Dames,' the bloody World war I battfegj-ound, which overlooks ioissons. 2500 Tanks Lost The French reported they were (Continued on Page Three) " Young Republican , Clubs to Organize Organization of local Young Re public clubs In the county Is being planned under the direction of Phil Christensen, county president. A meeting for this purpose is planned at the Payson City coun cil chambers, Tuesday at 8 p.m. A similar meeting will be held in the American - Fork city hall, Wednesday at 8 p. m. Plans are to organize the Young Republicans in Springville at . a meeting in the city library there, Friday, June 14, at 8 p. m. AUNTHET By Robert QuiSea 1 "Nobody piajfd a food game. Ve'd Jut bJ-d about Emily appljin for a Iivorc ad jckj can't kwp ywur raiod brtdje tiD rnu're talkla about a tiUxir, i.ke that.? m IP |