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Show PRO VO (UTAH) ' DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1940 PAGE ONE Women and Children Being Evacuated From Hongkong Lots -of Mail for Villkie Folks LOGO AWAITS FEAR ATTACK Of 'HONG KONG COMTRACTS LET FOR 45 SHIP: MEW ELECTION SECTION TWO Ily EDWARD P. MORGAN MEXICO CITY. July 2 U.R Mexico votes for a new president on July 7 in an atmosphere chareed with excitement and threat of violence." Gen. Manuel Avlla Camacho, - the government party candidate, la opposing Oen. Juan Almazan, independent. The carrying of arms' haa been prohibited between July 1 and . July 15. The University of Mexicooften Mex-icooften the scene of student political disorders -'- haa been cloned until July 8, At least one party haa appealed fi volunteer nurses for Its expected wounded at the polls. All military commanders in rones throughout the republic ' have been ordered to suspend sale of arms and ammunition for a ; period of two ' weeks begining .July l. .. ... ,,;.VJ. V ' - ' I'olitical observers t" generally believed that A Vila Camacho would be declared elected, - bit as ' the war, U. S. .relations f and the growing internal excitement com plicated the" closing days of , the campaign, the nation was pre . pared for the unexpected. The present government under .President , Lazaro Catenas , is making a strenuous (effort,' to carry out its guarantee that the election will be "free,! open and peaceiui." r ? For the first time j since the days of Gen. Alvaro Otregon, 20 years ago, the candidacy of the government nominee fi ' being openly and formidably con' - tested. 1 , . I j; A wealthy businessman. shrewd politician and an efficient army general, : Almazan is the . "triple threat" man of this elec tion. , . j There is a wide popular sent! ment for Almazan throughout the nation, most observers agree. The question is: How jeep does tms sentiment run 7 If tie Alma zan followers are willing and determined to go the Halt to see him made president, thejre can be serious trouble, althouii hardly a revolution of .the ok style, these observers report. - (lmcricii Secure Against Iluigcr a r. nosVEix. Ulan county Agricultural Agent Since the dawn of hlstay hunger hun-ger and I the fear of hungir have driven men to war; AmLiatlons have had to have food tq defend themselves. No nation ho ever been so secure in its supply if food ana fiber as America is today. Never has a nation been given such a guarantee of abundmce as that assured the United Sttes by the American farmer. America's granaries arc full to overflowing with ; food and fiber, for America has the Ever-Formal Granary that sores the abu dance of fat years against an; possible pos-sible scarcity In - the leari years. The ever-normal granary! is on millions of farms, in thous&ids of roadside bins, and in counties elevators ele-vators and warehouses. Wheat and corn and coton to feed and clothe the multituds are there. Three times the nornta supply sup-ply of wheat has been pu into this storage, and added tt the new crops it gives us more 'nan a billion bushels " for the year half again as much would normally consume. The Ever-Normal Granar for corn holds three times the isual carry-over, and the corn Cleans pork and lard, beef and ration, milk and butter, poultry and -ggs. If there were a cotton crojfail-ure, crojfail-ure, we should not go wihout because the Ever-Normal (ran ary now has more than a full year's supply. $ , The American farmer is the most efficient on earth and henow fcming a we f .,., . - t :... tLs . ' ' " l ... ... . . a. . ; ' 1 ,. . ... ' - x -i. i - -i- ii - r -i n - . .- i i miilliiitl'rna junoiMt auuiofiues are arranguig removal from Hongkong of women and children, as a precaution due to pres ent tangled relationships in the fur Sast. Photo showa the harbor, and the British crown colony city. ' ' 4 . " ----- , - ; ; . f -rS- : ; : ' H l7oof Placed On Hew "Y" Chape! Construction . on the new Brig' ham Young university religious and social center entered a new phase as roofing work . neared comple tion this week.- With outside walls of the structure virtually com pleted, work is well up to sched ule, according . to Bert Russell of Salt Lake City, foreman. Most of the roofing is complete on the large south wing and the smaller east wing of the building which will house . classrooms, offices, of-fices, reception rooms, , banquet hall,- and cafeteria. The east wing is one -story in height and the south wing two stories high. The roofs of both of these '.sections are flat. 1 - - - Roofing material used on the building is the most modern type available, according . to. Mr. Russell. Rus-sell. It consists of-three layers of 30-pound felt, covered with four layers of rolled asbestos roofing. These layers are 'mop Bolld," be-1 Ing sealed with a coating of tar between each one. The ton layer of the roofing is finished in white. This '. material is both fire-proof and moisture-proof. The large north wing . of the building, which contains the chapel and the recreation hall, will have a gabled roof. It is supported by steel trusses' and purlins with wood .Joists Preliminary sheeting over the joists has almost been completed on the roof of this Wing, and the laying of roofing sheets has begun. 1 Work has begun on the central tower which: will rise 54 feet above . the first floor. When this gets completed it : will taper into a small pyramidal roof to be cov ered with copper sheeting. An average of 33 workmen are engaged " in the : construction un der the I. D. S. church welfare plan, according to W." Lester Man-gum Man-gum of Provo, time-keeper. This work is administered by the east, central -Utah region of the church welfare program. A number of B. Y. U. students and faculty : members mem-bers ' also are contributing : work, Mr. Mangum said. PLEASANT GROVE ANNA MARI WALKKK Correspondent Phone 2722 City Dads Pass . OnBeer Licenses Provo city commissioners Monday Mon-day night approved issuance of 18 beer licenses to business establish-mpnta establish-mpnta at X2SO pnrh. The licenses. nas me most erricient storagi sys-same number as issued last year. tern on earth. America's hurting bins of food and fiber are the f rulers' rul-ers' reply to. the bursting sheh in Europe, Come - what may; the American farmer with his jjer-Normal jjer-Normal Granary is ready for the defense. IJIQ GAME CENSUS Utah now supports 124,000 oer, 0.000 elk, 200 antelope. 50 bifbrn sheep, l moose, and 450 bearae cording to the last big gamd sua conducted by the United Sites department of agriculture. Sponges v really are skel Living sponges are covered flesh . and somewhat fresh liver. resemk a bns. kith will bring the city $4500 in revenue.'. rev-enue.'. . . . CARDON TO ATTEND P. V. Cardon, assistant chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry and a native of Utah will keynote the regional grassland conference to be held at Salt Lake City, July 15 ' 16 and 17, according to an announcement of William Peter son, extension service director. Before his appointment as : assistant as-sistant chief of the bureau, Car don was chief of the bureau's di vision of forage -crops and dis eases. He will trace the changing agriculture in the region wheret pasture management has become increasingly important. " - Out of town visitors who at' tended the farewell testimonial for William West, herd. Sunday evening, were Mr. and Mrs. Ren Halliday, Metta, Dorothea, Elean or, and Eleroy Rasmuson of LbJ gan. - . Mrs. Elvin Thorne returned Monday from a five weeks 'vacation 'vaca-tion in Long. Beach, Calif.,, where she was' the guest ' of her sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. Louise Gonzales and Mrs. P. M. Docken. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Huggard of - Helper, with their two chil dren, Garth and Karen, are visiting visit-ing Mrs. Huggard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Barney. Helen Carlson and Erna Neves, who work in . Salt Lake, were week end , visitors at. the homes of their parents; 'Mr. and Mrs. Walktce Held, Culver City, California, and" two little .girls. Patsy and Rae; left Sunday after visiting for" "two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Young. Mary Robison, daughter of John Robison, of Long . View, Washington, ; is -: visiting Mr. and Mrs. Neils Poulson. Four-H pheasant clubs in s15 counties of Utah, nave received 5,020 pheasants from the etate fishand game department. Club members will grow the game birds out and - sell them '. back to he state this fall. The project is under un-der the direction of Carl Frischk-necht, Frischk-necht, extension poultryman and J. Whitney Floyd, extension for- hester of the Utah State Agrlcul-I Agrlcul-I tural college. TO GROW PHEASANTS racc ' HONG KONG, July 2 (U.E Evacuating Americans rilled the liner - President CooUdge to capacity ca-pacity today while 1,900 British women and- children crowded aboard the liner Empress of Japan Jap-an as fears grew of a Japanese attack on this British crown colony.- - - (At the, same, time the Exchange Ex-change telegraph in London reported re-ported from Hopg Kong that the Dutch consul had Instructed 150 Dutch nationals to exacuate as soon as possible. The Norwegian consul gave similar advice to Norwegians. The Japanese consul general, however, was said to have told Japanese nationals to stay in Hong Kong "because there is no cause for' worry.") The ' President Coolidge . sails at midnight. The Empress of Japan leaves .a few hours earlier for Manila. Most of the women and - children going aboard the Empress of Japan were wives of British army, air and naval of-clers, of-clers, and men. The American gunboats Tulsa and Ashevllle, - of the United States; Far East fleet stood by here. (Manila reported six American submarines had left the Phillip-pines Phillip-pines for "Chinese waters.") The liner City of Norfolk is expected here Thursday and the liner President Taf t is due July It was admitted the American consulate general had ordered the President Coolidge to return, upon up-on - instructions from the . state department, because the situation situa-tion here .might become critical at any time. - Japanese troops had now occupied oc-cupied territory opposite Hong Kong all the way from the Canton Can-ton V river on the west to Mirs bay on the east, and were in position to carry out their threat - - - ? . . J ? ' ..- ' ? - r7 J t-- , .. i ... 4 i ;f . 1 c V o J I A ! ' ' ' 1 T1 I " ,. . J I i M-r -Villi1 ' . . . m v,f It I - ! "i - -J WASHINGTON, July 1 HP) Acting Scrtary of Navy Lewis Com p ton today announced award of the largest single group or contracts for warship In the nation's na-tion's history 1414,000,000 for 45 new ships. The addition to the fast-grow-' ing fleet include submarines, cruisers, cruis-ers, destroyers and one aeaplane tender. Last week the navy let contract covering 19 submarines, and destroyers. The work involved today is to done in private shipyards. RETURNS FROM MISSION Gordon Miner, aon of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Miner of 519 East First South street, has returned from the Spanish-American L. D. S. mission, where he has been laboring la-boring the past 31 months. The young man was district president in the lower California states for nine months. Mission headquarters are la E3 Paso, Texas. , (NEA TeU photo) Back home in their Fifth-avipartment in New York city after a short yachting cruise, Mr. and Mn' Wendell Wilixie are shown reading inoom-. inoom-. ing coil gT a ti Story letters and telegrams. i to Hockade Hong Kon,f "so as to prevent supplies from going to China," Wednesday. McKENNA DIES WASHINGTON. July 2 UJ Patrick H. McKenna, chief usher in the executive office of the White House for the last 37 years, died at a hospital here today. He was 65. , . SJIALLEIt WHEAT CKOP Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for Utah, estimate that this state will harvest 3.646.-000 3.646.-000 bushels of winter wheat this year. This is about 800,000 bushels under the estimate of May 1. due to lack of moisture in moat sections sec-tions of the state. AlW (VliCll I L -1 r r At "Personal you si to trt friendly, considerate tcrrbcc, Loans ot $25 to $250 or crier. Endorsers seldom recrturcd. f - a j at mi m I fiwancs ca Room iT. 1J TtM "i Cmr trt. 4rr hoM 11. Pro. j Joh r. j Moor. Mf. Foreign Envoys To Be Withdrawn In Occupied Are BERLIN, July 2 (UJv--The gov ernment has informed foreign- dip lomatic, representatives here that all foreign diplomats must be withdrawn from Norway, Belgium Holland ' and' Luxembourg1 by July 15, ' it was learned today. . The foreign office here ruled that in . view of the occupation of those countries by German troops, and because their governments had fled, there no longer was any basis for diplomatic representation at their capitals.: Diplomatic rep resentatives here .were told that after July 15, all political matters affecting the four countries should be taken up with the foreign of f ice here. . , (IJtaliLake Park) , MamnGd FoIIEsg EDaimcG WITH CARERS ORCHESTRA EVERY TIESDAY NIGHT FREE BUS from Utahna at 8:45 and 9:30 p. m. Racing Publisher Goes to Prison CHICAGO, ' July 2 (EE) Moses L. Annenberg, who rose from newsboy to publisher and chief of a' gigantic race - information service, Monday was sentenced to three years in prison on his plea of. guilty to evasion of $1,216,297 In income taxes. P Joseph ' E. . Hafner, bookkeeping genius of the intricate network of , Annenberg corporations, was given five months in jail. In passing sentence. Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson ex' plained: . . , ' "It is inescapable that the net work of corporations was used to set up an escape of taxes." Ben Turpin, Film Comedian Is Dead HOLLYWOOD, July 2 , CE Ben Turpin, 66, cross-eyed com edian of silent films, died Monday Mon-day following a suddan heart attack. at-tack. ' . " The comedian, who won "his greatest fame in the Mack Sen-nett Sen-nett bathing films, had Jjeen in retirement for many years, . although al-though a year. ago he plaved a brief role in , a film based on the early days of the motion pic ture industry. i . 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