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Show " -o o " The Weather UTAH ParttaUy cloudy, light Khowera, tonight; partially cloudy Tuesday with shower In Fast and scattered, over tnoun-taJmi tnoun-taJmi In the west. Maxim urn Temp. Sunday .... 08 Minimum Temp. Sunday .... 62 Herald Want Ada Erin j Desired Results! Telephone 494 or 433 FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 10 82SS5Sh llDlcl Z PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JULY , 15, 1940 UTAH'S OXLT DA.ILT SOUTH OV BAL.T LJUSLB PRICE HVE CENTS (( iiM 11 m M, i!c i ) M " ' - i " "VL. . -vwwwaMSWivwwww" .WWiw I j I yfuWJ'fr jjn, ., ii-ii,inn i i 'i.i.Vi,-tf -.nv,-, jiji r.jTr..: M,-uim' .rnTi -i. r" r n --r-i ui.ji.n jMl n ' i.v.'i - .rr-r' " '" r" '' " "' "' ' I rr-i n n.PR VJ C 0J 1 1 ) i Z2 jii J nr a 0) D E3ZC CHAT ' . jy TUK EDITOU First attempt to reach and influence the United States hv radio, usinir conquered countries under German .con trol, is now reported from Norway. A station, obviously hastily erected, in Oslo, is now broadcasting broad-casting music and long lallcs in Norwegian to sucn American Amer-ican listeners as may prove to be interested. L . , - It will certainly hot be long before the same stunt is tried from Belgium, Holland and France. The Nazis waste no time in trying to convince tHe world that all i3 serene and happy in the conquered countries. coun-tries. . Naturally, aTl such broadcasts are directly under the control of the German propaganda machine' a nd must be heard with thai fact in mind. 0O0- 4 ' Loyalty. - . ; There is something to be said about loyalty that ' we wish might be painted oh the inside of the porridge bowl of every youngster in fHe land, and chalked at the top of all the blackboards in our schools and stenciled above tTie doorways door-ways of our churches and public buildings.. Tis this:. MAn ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of brains.", Using a "strato-liner, Hollywood Holly-wood stars can now get married mar-ried in New York, become estranged es-tranged over Chicago, and ctart divorce action in Reno, .ill in a matter of hours. ' University' of Illinois gets a iew atom-smasher . for . the physics department. .Indignant .Indig-nant alumni probably i will protest, claiming it was a line-smasher line-smasher they .were contributing contribut-ing for. ; .. .. . MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'a Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. 'ALLEN Arrangements Quickly Made At Chicago when m; Decided to Accept "Draft Old Friends Put Terrific Pressure "on Him Last Mon day To Declare Himself; World Crisis. GOP Threat, Imperiled Reforms Among Arguments To Sway Him; Mayor Tells Police To "Smack Down' Anti-Roose velt Hecklers in Galleries. CHICAGO The manager of the Congress Hotel on famed Michigan Boulevard was one or the first persons outside the innermost White House group : to get the word that the President would run again. The hotel man was let in on the secret by a member of the White House staff, who was dispatched dis-patched to Chicago to make ar rangements for : me i President's visit when he accepts the "draft" nomination. '.The Secret Service agent reserved a number of rooms for the presidential party and naturally had to explain why he was . doing ; sol The choice of the Congress was made personally ; by . Roosevelt. He stayed there when he flew to Chicago in 1932 to. make his first , speatacular ' acceptance speech, and during his two successful suc-cessful campaigns. The floor that will be occupied by the President, as well as the floor above and the one below, have been under constant surveillance sur-veillance since the reservation was made. During the President's stay the entire hotel will be under guard.' -?.. Travel arrangements have been made for 'the President both by rail and plane. He wants to fly but the Secret Service is opposed to that, and unless he overrules (Contisue4 on Pg Four). . EIGHT FILE PETITIONS Farns worth In Race For V. S." Senator, Republican Repub-lican Nomination SALT LAKE CITY, July 15 U.R) Eight new petitions for nomination , for 1 state offices in ; the : September primary election were on file with the secretary of state today; following fol-lowing a week-end of active filing and designations. ' Two new candidates tossed their hats Into the ring for the gubernatorial guber-natorial nomination, bringing the number of candidates to five, ora C. Bundy. former mayor of ' Og- den, who announced his Intention tor run for governor several months ago, filed for the Democratic! Demo-cratic! nomination. (Ilea Acceptance i Bracken Lee, Price, forwarded to the secretary . of state his acceptance ac-ceptance of the designation filed last week, by businessmen of Carbon Car-bon county. He was designated as a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. P. T. Farnsworth, Jr Salt Lake City attorney, announced he would be a candidate for nomina tion to the U. S. senate on the Republican Re-publican ticket. His petition of candidacy was expected to reach the secretary of state shortly. Joseph E. Evans, Ogden lawyer, became a candidate for the Republican Repub-lican nomination for the office of justice of the ,, state supreme court ' mother petitions filed. with the secretary of state included those for th candldaoy.of. Rr Rv Carey, deputy state' " auditor ; for"" state auditor on the Democratic ticket! R. W. Candland, ? southern Utah stockman. : for secretary of state on me .Republican ticket; John A. Hougaard, incumbent judge of the 7th district at Mantl, for renom-inatlon renom-inatlon on . the Democratic ticket. and McKinley Morrill, Junction, zor senator of the 10th , district, comprising counties in southern Utah, on the Republican, ticket. . Designation for candidacy for superintendent - of public instruc tion was filed In behalf of Calvin S. Smith, Murray, If he accented the designation, he would be placed on me Daiioc as a Republican candidate.- . IMPROVEMENT DOfJDS ISSUED " Provo city today issued $23,245 in 6 per cent special improvement improve-ment bonds to w. O. Goodart and company of Salt Lake City to cover the' cost of sewer district No. 23, reported Mrs. Mary F. Smith, city auditor. The bonds, which mature ten years hence, were sold at above par, the premium being approximately approxi-mately $615, Mrs. Smith said. They will be retired with money paid by the abutting property owners in the district where the sewer was Installed. Cenola Legislator Files; Candidacy. For Re-election a: GLCN E. DAVIS Holds Lead "1 Fulgenclo Batista BATISTA HOLDS LEAD OF 3 TO 2 HAVANA, Cuba, July 15 U.EV Col. Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's "strong man," claimed a' three-to- two lead1 over - Drj Ramon Grau San Martin today in a presiden tial election -which . had- cost at least six lives and had brought angry -charges of - fraud by 'Gran .Martin supporters. Batista was gaining steadily. Returns from 688 polliner places of a total of about 5,800 had given him 109,501 votes against 67,153 for Grau San Martin, and returns from 1,206 polling places gave him 186,553 votes against 108,240. Grau San Martin was leaditier only in Matanzas province, in the area east of . the capital, where only a fraction of the vote had been counted. . ' Batista, ' who rose ' from an army sergeant-stenographer to be colonel commanding the f fighting forces after the deposition of Gerardo Machado in 1933. was confident of victory. Opposition leaders, however, as serted there had beeA fraud and coercion by army men and work ers for the Batista coalition. . Committee Named For Party Outing Appointment of . committee to plan the annual Utah county TV. - 4. t . . a . i--cjuucra.i.ic pany ouung was announced an-nounced todav bv a . n t?h tt Spanish Pork, county chairman. . The committee consists of C. A. Grant, American Fork, county jjertoy jonnson, ' Provo, deputy sheriff, and Thelma Vest, Payson, deputy county recorder. The three were in session today, to-day, planning preliminary details of the outing, which will include sports, dancing, refreshments, and a' program. The site has not been selected.- Glen E. Davis, prominent Gen. ola Democrat, today filed with county Cierk C. A. Grant 4iis candidacy for re-election as state representative from legislative district No. five of Utah county. Mr, Davis is a former mayor of Genola, and has taken prominent part in. civic and political activities ac-tivities for many years. Mr. Davis represented his district dis-trict in the " last session of the state legislature, lower house, and served on a number of important import-ant committees during the session. ses-sion. Provo Youth Wins "Wings" Sunday Morris 'Duke. 226 East Fourth South, won his "wines" Snndav when he - successfully negotiate ma soio wgnx. at me utan uentraJ airport in Salt Lake City, follow ing his training course under Vera Carter, flying instructor. 02 EMTDr.lBED ! BY EXPLOSION It com BEE 18 Miners Come Out Of Koppers Company ( Mine Blast PORTAGE, Pa July 15 (U.R) One body was reported found late today in the explo-sion-riddled mine of the Son- man Coal Co.. where it is feared 50 , other miners are trapped. A rescue squad telephoned the body of "Stump" George had been found ' the first death to be reported in the mine which was rocked by a gas explosion. . . PORTAGE, Pa.. July 15 (U.R) : An explosion in the Sonman Coal company slope mine occurred 'today, and at least 52 men were reported entombed. " , t A spokesman for the company, com-pany, operated by the Koppers Kop-pers Coal Co., Pittsburgh, reported the explosion occurred in a section in which 70 men were reported at work. Eighteen of these mi have come out of the mine, the spokes man said. The fate of the others is not known, the spokesman oaid. Field operators of the state department de-partment of mines and rescue crews from Windber, Johnstown and Portage were at the scene. ' 'The United States Bureau of MineaC to Pittsburgh sent Super" visor J. J. Forbes and five other, engineers to the mine, with rescue apparatus. . - t A Koppers company spokesman said the Sonman workings have been mined for 50 years. r - Clerks in the Sonman . Coal of fice here reported . that ' approximately approxi-mately 225 men were at work at the time of the explosion, pnly 70. however, were reported' to have been in the section affected by the -explosion. The community of ; Sonman has a population of 800 persons, most of them dependent on the coal mines for a livelihood. Anxious wives, children and relatives hur ried to the scene as the company's officials directed rescue crews. Basebiall Scores , NATIONAL LEAGUE First game Brooklyn ; 101 210 02310 Pittsburgh ..... 000 000 001 1 Wyatt and Phelps; Butcher, Lana-han Lana-han ' (5) Bauers (6) and Davis. New York 000 00 Chicago 000 02 Melton and Dannlng; French and Hartnett,- - " . Philadelphia . . . 000 100 0 ' Cincinnati ....... 000 100 1 Pearson and At wood; Vy alters and Lombard!. Boston, .', 01 St. Louis .... 00 , Erickson ' and Berres; Warneke and Owen. Second-game . Brooklyn ...... 100 0 - Pittsburgh ..... 031 0 . . Pressneh and Mancuso; Klinger and Lopez. -. AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis 013 000 020 6 Boston . ; 223 000 21x 10 Auker, Cox (2) Lawson (4), and Swift; Hash, He vlng (3), Peacock. Chicago . . , .... 001 000 110 3 New York . . . .. 000 000 020 2 E. Smith and Tresh; Breuer and Dosar. , . . . Detroit ....... 000 801 00 PhUadelphia ... 002 103 20 ' Newhouse and Tebbetts; Heusser, Beese (4) and Hayes. ' j Cleveland . 000 00 Washington .... 015 00 Mllnar and Hemsley; -Hudson and Ferrell. . ; -, TIi is Day.S BORN -Boy, to George D. . and FJva Thomas Wilson, Saturday. LICENSED TO MARRY Rowland Cannon, 26, Salt Lake City," and t Elithe Fillmore, ? 24, Provo, I Prothero Named City Treasurer City Commission To Ratify , Mayor's Appointment Monday Night J. Walter Prothero, office manager of the irrigation department de-partment for the past two ancj a half years, ,wiil be named Provo city treasurer to succeed suc-ceed Almo B. Simmons, it was announced today by Mayor Mark Anderson, commissioner of public affairs, finance and pub-11c pub-11c safety. , A. It is expected the appointment will be confirmed at tonight's meeting, of the city commission. In an . accompanying motion, the appointment of Mr. Simmons, who recently confessed, peculations of city funds, - wifl be terminated, Mayor Anderson said. Of the new appointee, the mayor said:- "We have found Mr. Prothero Pro-thero to be efficient and reliable, and we feel he Is entitled to a promotion." , 1" ' , The appointment, Mayor Anderson Ander-son said, will not necessitate adding add-ing an employe to the city staff, as Mi. Prothero will continue to supervise the inrigatlon office, assisted as-sisted by Mrs. Beulah Henrichaen, deputy city treasurer. Mr. Prothero was born in Provo 32 years ago and has lived here all his life, now residing at 447 West Third South. He is married and has two children, v He ' was graduated from Provo high school and Brigham Young University, where ,he majored in accounting and business administration. adminis-tration. He was employed in the national re-employment bureau tetprBs being appointed as Irrjga- turn wtr sloner J. P. McGuire. , ;. "I am pleased to receive the appointment, ap-pointment, . and appreciate . the confidence the city commission has shown In me," Mr. Prothero said today. "I will do my best to fulfill , the . position." Mr. Simmons, who is recovering at, the Utah. Valley hospital from a shotgun wound in his side, was appointed : city treasurer in 1935 by, the late Mayor A. O. Smoot. He hadbeen reappointed for two- year terms thrice by Mayor Anderson, An-derson, the last -reappointment being in January of 1940. , 1IAIFA BOMBED i JERUSALEM, July 15 (HE) Enemy aircraft bombed the Haifa area today in the first air raid on Palestine. Slight aamage and a few casualties were reported. ; - -s British Shoot Down Seven Nazi Planes LONDON, July 15 U.R) Seven German planes five bombers and two fighters had been downed Sunday "in. a spectacular fight over.the Dover Straits and Royal Air force planes had made their, greatest raid of the war on German objectives. . . rrs. r rmm - m . Britons were encouraged by the Dlazc SO Forty CCC enrollees fought today, to-day, to quell a forest fire which was raging through the brush-land brush-land on the south side of the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon, reported George C Larson, supervisor su-pervisor of the Uinta " national fnrst: Tt wsa pimected the blaze would be checked this afternoon. The fire was Just above the Strawberry Water Users canal, an important watershed area. The fire fighters, enroUees of the forest CCC camp of provo, No. 958, were under the supervision supervi-sion of A. J- Wag8taff, Provo, assistant forest supervisor, and Merrill Nlelson, Spanish Fork, forest ranger. Offden Car Forced Over. Embankment DeVere CMIds, 50, Ogden school tearhAr fnrmsrlv tit Provo. and four other occupants of his auto- mo Due, suffered minor Druises when he was forced by another car over a narrow embankment on highway 50, three miles west Of ThiatlA lat Ka turrln V h re ported to Provo officers. His car was damaged to the extent of $200, be said. BRITISH SET FOR FIGHT TO LAST DITCH Food Rationing Intensi fied; Churchill Says Britain Ready By WALLACE CARROLL " LONDON, July 15 (U.R) Food rationing was intensified intensi-fied for a siege today as lire" country .chorused approval of Prime i Minister Winston Churchill's promise of a last ditch fight against any attempted at-tempted German invasion. Believing the German plane attacks at-tacks on Great Britain and its shipping were only starting, the government, in order to strengthen strength-en food resources, limited tea consumption to two ounces a week per person, limited the combined butter-margarine-cooking fats ration to eight ounces a week, forbade restaurants to serve both meat and fish to a patron at one meal, announced no iced cakes, cream buns or eclairs might be made by confectioners after August 5 and banned such sweets as candied peels and cry-stalized cry-stalized cherries effective Sept. 2. Churchill Praised Newspapers joined in praising Churchill's vigorous speech yesterday, yes-terday, when he promised the nation that Britain,- at least, would not knuckle down to Germany Ger-many but would fight to the last and forecast a long war in which Britain finally would take the of fensive, ."Every -true Briton. , after hear ZS5'ttS.'. " .K1 world." will think: That's what I should like to have said; that's how I. feel," said the Daily Mail.. "Mr. Churchlirs speech was magnificent. And it was war," said The Daily Express. "The voice to which we were listening was v the voice of . a commander-in-chief : who knows what the situation is and who has good reason for believing that with our ungrudging help he can bring it to a good end," said the Daily Sketch. , Churchill said Britain must be prepared for a long war and the .country would be defended street by street if necessary. "We may show mercy but we shall ask none," he said. "We must prepare not only for this summer but for the winter, not (Continued on Page Three) ' dramatic reports of yesterday's air battle in which British Spitfire Spit-fire and Hurricane fighters challenged chal-lenged a German fleet which the air ministry estimated at 40 Junkers Junk-ers bombers, 87 Stuka dive bombers bomb-ers and a strong force of protective protec-tive Messerschmitt fighters. Five bombers and two fighters were shot down, it was said officially, and a third fighter was so seriously serious-ly damaged it was unlikely to have reached home. Loss of one British plane was reported. British planes bombed plane, munitions and chemical works, barge concentrations and airdromes air-dromes in their raids. Pilots reported re-ported docks, ammunition dumps, oil refineries, barge concentrations and 14 airdromes were bombed at the cost of three British planes. They reported big fires were started among massed barges in which Germany might try to send men to England. The airdromes bombed. In Germany, Holland, Belgium and France, were those from which German planes take off to bomb England. Hamburg, Bremen, Wilh elms-haven, elms-haven, Emden. Delchshausen, Monheim, Ham and Soest were among the German towns In wtSch military objectives were bombed. Fresh German planes vial ted England during the night and caused casualties and considerable damage In a southwestern town- Several homes were demolished and a woman and a man were j killed. There " was sporadic. Ineffective bombing In southwestern EngUnd. j Roosevelt Namme . Is Signal - For . Demonstration! Kelly, Lucas Touch off Fireworks At Open ing: of Democratic Convention; Bankhead To Give Keynote Address Tonight STADIUM, CHICAGO, July 15 (U.R) The Roosevelt third term bandwagon got off to a rolling start today within 20 minutes after the opening of the 1940 Democratic national na-tional convention. .- - The president's name was mentioned by Mayor Edward J. Kelly, an original draft-Roosevelt man. It touched off the first floor demonstration of second round of cheers. Chairman 1 Alben Barkley ' VJcotcrn States Csbgates Plan Concsried Action CHICAGO, July 15 TLE Delegates Dele-gates from 11 western states last night organized to exert joint Influence in the convention, and In national affairs after the coming election. Calvin W. Rawlings, Utah, was elected chairman, and Frank Tier-ney, Tier-ney, Oregon, was named vice-chairman. vice-chairman. The group agreed they would wherever possible act jointly joint-ly in national affairs in order to exert a maximum of Influence, Tierney said. The group adopted a resolution urging that new national defense Industries should be "distributed sectionally so as to serve the need of the country as a whole." The resolution asserted such a distribution would "develop the great resources wTiich the west affords." Other resolutions adopted by the group urged the importance of mining In the national eco-omy eco-omy and called for the continuance contin-uance of federal reclamation projects pro-jects in the 17 arid and semi-arid semi-arid western states. The latter resolution urged that such projects pro-jects afforded a means of providing pro-viding for "250,000 homeless persons" per-sons" in that area. Discussions of the reclamation projects led to criticisms of Secretary Sec-retary of Interior Harold L. Ickea, governmental administrator of the reclamation programs. Rep. Ate ilurdock, Utah, asked ask-ed the delegates to adopt another resolution urging continued protection pro-tection for the domestic sugar beet industry. U. S. Sen. I "at UcCarran. Nevada, also advised that the group take a deftrute stand in support cf the gold and silver mining Industry. No definite de-finite action was taken on either suggestion. A committee will be appointed to study the sugar problem, prob-lem, , Tierney said regular meetings j would be held throughout the convention and other meetings will be planned after the conven tion adjourns. CITY RECORDER RETURNS I. G. Bench provo city recorder. was on the job at his office today, to-day, after returning from a week's vacation trip with hij son Jay, to Rock Creek, Duchesne countv. FLshine was excellent at! the Duchesne stream, he reporteil j the 46-minute gathering a 20- Some delegates crowded out of their seats and the New York state banner was hoisted Icto the aisle, but there was no parade. A few minutes later there were more cheers when Sen. Scott Lucas Lu-cas of Illinois mentioned the president's presi-dent's name. The first full fled&ed i . y CHICAGO, July 15 UJ- I Tonight's- convention pro- gram: 7:30 p. rv.: Convention convene. con-vene. 8 p. nx: Addreea by Farley. 8:15 p. m.: Election of William B. BAakhead, speaker speak-er of the houae, m temporary chairman. 8:30 p. m.: Bankhead j make keynote speech. T j (All time Central Standard) j demonstration of the convention may come tonight when Houe Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama makes the keynote ad dreas of the convention. TH eon vntkrt-5rBJ5 ' calTff J tO order at 11:04 . m. CST. National Chairman James A. Farley against whose personal wishes the third term nomination is being made gaveiied the convention con-vention to order. It was the sun spot and in the same had wnere the Roosevelt 1832 victory drive started. Roottevelt Line Installed Today as the flae-bedecked con vention hall slowly filled for the opening , formalities, word came from Washington that a direct telephone line had been Installed to link Mr. Roosevelt In the White- House with the convention in Chi cago. It has not been used vet. the White House said. The convention assembled with out one public word or one public hint from ilr. Roosevelt as to his desires and intentions on the third I term. But not a delegate or alter nate in ucicago was in doutt as to the certainty that the convention would name the president to carry (Continued on Page Three) Roosevelt Using Private Line To The Convention WASIffN-GTON. July 15 CP President Roosevelt, while guarding guard-ing the secret of his own political Intentions, permitted a direct telephone tele-phone drcu:t to Chicago to be connected with the White House switchboard today. The- telephone connection wi3 give Mr. Rtoeevelt instantaneous communication with the Democratic Demo-cratic convention where dtegate are preparing to offer fcira a nomination nom-ination for a third terra. AUNTHET By Egbert Qaie I don't know what's r-In r-In to become of u. They keep Inventln thinj- to malce woman's work easier, and half the waraea I kww are fraxitic lor wajat o something to do." C3 I"1 7v w. |