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Show . ft C- - ' 5'Ali Partly lun.ly Uh M'.st-( M'.st-( rr I stft.TH'i'ni and evening1 ! " '.. f t or t Jiun.'i r storms tu-i tu-i "i.t and FiJJay. CHlep w?t anil t ntral jxrt imtn tonight. I liimuin tfniji. W i!f i.v ...81 iinimuiii temp. W.-dmlay ...41 Uw7f 7ai Count j) V.y PatrooMng Local Slorea &eJ Li S.1 l I UTAH'S ON'LT D4II, eOL'IJi Of BAX.T UKi) PRICE FIVE CENTS FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 54 COMPLETE UNITED PUT 1 THLEfliUi'n NWi EitVlCJ PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940 : r r -t r f 1 f I 2 V ft - n f 1 J 1: J J L.J lj La :3 u :3 v..y k - . 4 Ld W iiV THE EDITOll - 7 American education is putting1 put-ting1 over ix first-class job in the vocational education phase of the defense program the training of civilian workmen in elementary skill that qualifies quali-fies them for jobs in defense industries. Within four days of the signing of the act appropriating appropriat-ing $15,000,000 for the pur. pose, the program was launched. launch-ed. By July 31, 80,000 men were in training. Labor unions, industry, and educators all co-operated, and vocational work is well along in 283 cities. Placement reports re-ports give hope that 20t000 trainees are already moving from summer courses into defense de-fense jobs. Locally, applicants for such training have been forced to go out of town because no set up existed to carry out the program here, and the school district was unable to finance the proposed plan, alone. 0O0 SPORTS DEP'T: Hunters bent on banging the elusive bird had better stock up on shotgun shells. Prices are going up by the day. Gunpowder Gun-powder manufacturers are busy supplying national defense de-fense needs, and can't turn out enough shells for sportsmen sports-men this year. 0O0 "I hear your friend Tam-son's Tam-son's married again." "Aye, so he is. HeVbeen, a dear friend tae me . . . he's cost me three wedding presents pres-ents and two wreaths." 0O0 Candidates for political office of-fice and prisoners both run the risk of having what they pay used against them. Best Definition of the Week: A true, diplomat is a man who remembers a woman's , birthday but not her age. GC-GUND A Daily Picture of What's Golsj On in NatloiuJ Affairs Willkies Led Comfortable Life in Rushville; "EOSh" Especially Popular; Town Excitement Calms Down ; Some Neighbors Not Yet "Sold" On Canduiate ; Farmers Didn'f Like His Remarks About Farming; Newsmen Act As Advisers ; Willkie Clubs StiH Top Dog in Campaign Despite Mut-terings Mut-terings of Regulars. RUSHVILLE, Ind. Preparing; for his first big campaign tour, Wendell Willkie enjoyed the comfortable com-fortable life of a summer visitor in this mellow county seat. For the most part he had no fixed schedule and divided his time between the old Frank Cross farm a little west of here, which he owns, and the solid, red brick mansion on shady Harrison street, which he rents from the owner of Rushville's leading department store. Around the house runs a spacious porch, and it ia here that Willkie spent much of his time. The GOP standard bearer rose around 7 a. m., and had a hearty Hoosier breakfast with his wife and son Phil. From then on, hia day was filled with interviews, telephone calls, dictation, reading and just plain taking it easy. He usually retired a little after midnight. mid-night. Willkie transacted most of his important campaign business by phone. For this purpose two experienced ex-perienced operators were brought from Indianapolis and a special switchboard set up. The other day he talked an hour and a half with San Francisco. His letters average aver-age around 250 a day. Willkie waa easily accessible to frienda, politicians and crackpots alike. With the latter two groups, however, he obviously was quickly bored and wished them off on members of his staff. Special triends? he took out to his fai (Continued on Page 5, Sec. 2, I J a m kJ r f ft rs r" "S n. ' '" Harris Calls Opening Faculty Meeting For Monday All is in readiness for the opening of the GGth academic year at Brigham Young university, uni-versity, it was revealed Thursday by President Franklin Frank-lin S. Harris in an announcement announce-ment of registration week events. First event on the openin-of-school program is the meeting1 of all members of the administrative and teaching staffs on Monday morning- in the Maeser assembly-room. assembly-room. At this initial faculty meeting1 meet-ing1 a final check will be made on registration machinery, and instructions in-structions will be given concerning the opening of the autumn quarter. quar-ter. Friday, Sept. 20, will te the first of 'the three-day registration registra-tion period. Freshmen and new students are advised to register on Friday and Saturday, and up-perclassmen up-perclassmen are expected to sign for classes Monday. Both old and nev.r students will be permitted to enroll on any of the three days, however, it was announced. Some innovations in the registration regis-tration procedure will be outlined next week by Registrar John E. Hayes, who with a committee of the deans has planned details of the process. To enable first year students to enroll in the proper sections of the freshmen English course, placement place-ment tests will be given at specified, spe-cified, hours, during.he, rfgjstra- Continuvl fn Pae? 1. Sec. 2 t d f w ' 94 jf r ' 1 9 9 4 ' ' t WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 12 12 (U.R) Contract for construction of the lower three miles of the Duchesne tunnel, one of the major features of the Deer Creek irrigation irriga-tion project, has been awarded to the Utah Construction company of Ogden. It's bid was $727,575, nearly $100,000 less than the second sec-ond low bidder. The contract allowed nearly two and a half years for completion of the work, which includes about half of the work needed for completion com-pletion of the tunnel. The Duchesne tunnell will carry water from the north fork of the Duchesne river to Deer Creek reservoir res-ervoir in Provo canyon. The Utah Construction company was lowest of eight bidders for the job. Bids were opened in Provo Pro-vo August 21 and forwarded to Denver where they were checked before being sent to Washington. c SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 12 L'.i: A 16-man committee today was named to draft the 1940 Democratic Demo-cratic state platform by Parnell Black, chairman of the state democratic committee. Heading the committee w&3 former for-mer state Democratic chairman Calvin W. Rawlings, Salt Lake City. Other members of the committee com-mittee included Mrs. Ora C. Eundy, Ogden; Mrs. Scott P. Steward, Stew-ard, State vice-chairman; Stuart P. Dobbs, Ogrden, democratic national na-tional committeeman, and state senator Wendell Grover, Salt Lake City. First meeting of the platform committee was set for Sept. iy in Salt Lake City. It will present its findings at the state platform convention at Provo, Sept. 2S. BOILV Boy, to Frank C. and Marian White Hatch, this morning-. Girl, to Lavar B. and Xrfla Black Hutchings, thus morning1. . r i:.nsi:j to makuv D. Busby, 27, Provo, and Ida Alice PUant, 24, Irovo. As R. A. F. Prepares "In-Kind" Reply t :.: ....... . - - - - - - Britains' doughty little It. A. F. hasn't been taking Nazi bnbing3 of England lying down. Time and again it has carried the attack to German soil, replied to Nazis in kind. Above, a prelude to such flights R A. F. pilots make a last-minute checkup of objectives. Uonscrzp'aon 7-i t n r:; -4 sf WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (U.R) Senate and house conferees con-ferees formally concluded work on the conscription bill today after easing restrictions on the president's power to take over private plants which refuse to accept national defense con- ( tracts. WORKERS TO CELEBRATE Workers of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company, more than 350 of them, will be guests of the management at a floor show and dinner at the Spring-ville Spring-ville Memorial hail. September 28 to celebrate the attainment of a year's record at the plant without with-out a "loss time" accident, according ac-cording to A. V. Billings, safety director at the plant. Present at the dinner will be William MeWane of Birmingham, Ala., president of the company; Harvey King", general manager, and other officials. A feature of the evening will be the distribution of $200 cash among1 the employees who have had no reportable injury during the year. The distribution will be made by drawing one award for $100, another for ?5Q and two for $25 each. Democrat Women In Speech Event Mrs. Malcolm Green of Spanish Fork, Utah county winner of a speaker's contest sponsored by the Democratic women, will compete with winners from other counties in the state at a contest Saturday at 10 a. m. at Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake City, according to Mrs. Algie E. Ballif, vice chairwoman. of the county Democratic organization. organi-zation. Purpose of the contests, according accord-ing to Mrs. Ballif, is to find arid choose women to be campaign speakers. Salt Lake Man Is Lowest Bidder Enoch Smith of Salt Lake City submitted the low bid for the contract con-tract to construct nearly eight miles of pipe line laterals on the South Ogden distribution system, according to bureau of reclamation reclama-tion officials who opened bids here Wednesdav. Mr. Smith's bid war, $$23-1.50. I) RI V E II A CQ UITTED Glade F. Tolman was acquitted of a speeding c'ha rge at conclusion conclu-sion of his trial in city court Thursday, Bill Chairman Morris Sheppard of the senate group said that he planned to file the conference report in the senate later today and have it acted upon tomorrow. The house also must act before a bill can be sent to the White House. The measure, requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 35, inclusive in-clusive to register for military training1, was altered by the conferees con-ferees today in only miner, respects re-spects except for the so-called "draft industry" provisions. When the conferees quit work last night they had approve! lan guage under, which the president could commandeer plants only if "the public danger is immediate, imminent and impending1." Today, the conferees eliminated most of the restricting language' and provided that the plants can be taken over if the president declares de-clares that "the public necessity is immediate x x x and the emergency emerg-ency in the public service is 1m-ptrative." 1m-ptrative." War department officials estimated esti-mated that 16,500,000 men would be affected by registration provisions provi-sions of the compromise measure, but that only about 5,000.000 would be subject to a year's compulsory military service. Senate and house conferees, after aft-er two days of deliberation, eliminated elim-inated from the bill the so-called Fish amendment which would have postponed the draft for 90 days pending1 trial of a voluntary enlistment enlist-ment system. Adoption of the 21-35 age limit represented a substantial victory for the senate, which had been urgred to accept the 21-45 age span approved by the house. The senate, sen-ate, in its version of the measure, provided for registration of all men between 21 and 31. The senate and the administration administra-tion also came out on top in the dispute over the 60-day "delay" clause. Mr. Roosevelt and hts He-publican He-publican opponent, Wendell L. Willkie, both renounced it- The house succeeded in sustain ing its amendment under which the government could take over and operate on a "fair rental" basis private plants whose owners refused to accept defense contracts. con-tracts. But the senate conferees, led by Sen. "Warren F. AusUn, K., Vt., wrote safeguards into the section sec-tion to comply with supreme court rulings on the government's commandeering com-mandeering rights. FIRES REPORTED BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 12 (CP) Boie national forest officials reported re-ported today 17 fires in the forest area were under control. Small CCC crews succeeded in extinguishing extin-guishing the blazes, Iargc.it of which covered 35 acres. O C. d ps :y a i: r President Launches Campaign Seeking Third Term fly I.Yl.i: . WISUSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (U.R) President Roosevelt's bid for labor votes was based today. on plans for early ex pansion ot social security1 benefits, including higher old age pensions, and such compulsory com-pulsory co-ordination of indus try as may be necessary for na tional defense. Mr. Roosevelt officially opened his third campaign for the presidency presi-dency last night before the convention con-vention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf feurs, Stablemen and Helpers as sembled in Constitution hall. He reminded the cheering unionists that their membership had swollen swoll-en under the New Deal from 70,-000 70,-000 to 500.000. Earlier the convention con-vention had endorsed a third term. ... Willkie Opens Wendell L. Wrillkie, Republican presidential candidate, makes hid official campaign debut tomorrow tomor-row night n Chicago. Mr. Roose-velt'a Roose-velt'a address to the teamsters somewhat clarified the issue of compulsory industrial co-ordination which had arisen between them. Mr. Roosevelt, after determined silence, now has endorsed compulsory com-pulsory co-ordination of industry, with provision for adequate compensation, com-pensation, a.s a proposal to which nq rr .-.n.'-.ile person could object. H RftH! he"-tiid -not "believe there would be much necessity for such measures. House and senate conscription con-scription bill conferees agreed last night of a compromise version of industrial co-ordination. Capital, labor, industry and agriculture are co-operating- loyally loy-ally in national defense, the presi-( presi-( Continued on Page Four) FOUi'IDRY DOSS IS F01O DEAD Funeral services for John Irwin Zabrlskie, 57, Provo Foundry foreman fore-man for many years, who was found shot to death at his home. 428 South Third East street, Wednesday Wed-nesday at 4:15 p. m., will be neld Saturday at 2 p. m. in the First ward chapel, with Bishop Walter P. Whitehead presiding". Provo police, who investigated, said Mr. Zabriskie was found in the basement by his 13-year-old daughter, Beth, when she returned return-ed from school, a 12-grauge shotgun shot-gun laying- beside his body. He had been seen out watering the lawn by neighbors a short time earlier. Indications were that the discharging1 dis-charging1 of the gun was accidental, acciden-tal, according to police, who stated stat-ed Mr. -Zabriskie, likely intending to clean the gun, slipped, causing" the weapon to explode. The charge entered the stomach after blasting blast-ing to pieces Mr. Zabriskie's belt buckle. Summoned to the scene. Dr. (Continued on Page Four) Windsor Ward to Celebrate 25th Anniversary Saturday By ANNA MAKIC WALKER PLEASANT GROVE Climaxing1 Climax-ing1 25 years of progress, past and present members of the Windsor ward will congregate Saturday at the chapel grounds to celebrate the silver anniversary of the ward and witness the breaking- of the ground for the new amusement hall. Former ward members from near and far are expected to participate, as scores of invitations invita-tions have been issued. A full day of fun has been planned, beginning in the morning. morn-ing. . A box lunch sale is scheduled for noon, with refreshment booths dispensing various confections and beverages open the entire day. During- the afternoon there will be two ball' games, supervised: by Ross Erinley, and games and races for the children. Time has also been allowed for chatting for the older folks. Presentation of a program will take place in the evening1, the PJetv JAxts May Iry Signs of German Preparations For Invasion of Britain Coincide With Italian Offensive Offen-sive Against Suez Canal By JOE ALEX MOIIKIS An Italian offensive through Egypt against the Suez canal and intensified aerial bombardment of Germany and the British Isles indicated a new clamix today in the European Europ-ean war. Dispatches from Rome reported without official confirmation confir-mation that a three-pronged Italian drive against British defenses de-fenses in Egypt already had started and hinted that it was timed to coincide with the climax of the battle for Britain; To fiiiarJ Provo Quarterly conference of Provo L. D. S. stake will be held Saturday Satur-day and Sunday, announcs Charles E. Rowan, stake president. Expected to represent the general gen-eral authorities are George F. Richards of the council of. twelve apostles and Henry D. Moyle, chairman of the church welfare committee. Conference will open Saturday at 7:30 p. m. at the First ward chapel, with sessions for Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthood members mem-bers and welfare workers. Speakers will include President Rowan, Andrew Jensen of the presidency, Willard Hawkins and W. O. Facer of the high council, J. M. Jensen, president of the high priests quorum, and probably one of the general authorities. As part of the Saturday-evening conference the Aaronic priesthood will conduct a special session. Short discussions will be presented by Enos Brimhall of the Fifth ward and Bruce Lyman of the Manavu ward, and special program numbers have been prepared by the deacons, teachers and priests of the four ward3 of the stake- A meeting for all stake and ward welfare workers will be Sunday Sun-day at 8:30 a. m. in the First ward chapel. The general conference sessions will be at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Sunday Sun-day in the tabernacle. The general gen-eral authorities, President Franklin Frank-lin S. Harris of Brigham Young university, and seven returned missionaries mis-sionaries will be the speakers. The evening program, at 7 :30 in the tabernacle, is under the direction di-rection of the M. I. A. U. S. Submarine at Honolulu Damaged HONOLULU, Sept. 12 (U.F:) The U. S. S. Shark, one of the navy's newest submarines, came to the surface underneath the Aircraft Carlier Yorktown, damaging its periscopes and radio mast, and flooding two compartments, it was reported reliably today. The Shark was said to be undergoing repairs in the Pearl Harbor navy yard. There were no injuries to members of the crew, it was understood. un-derstood. Naval authorities refused re-fused comment. main attraction of which will be a clever dramatization directed by Mrs. Erma Swenson, Mrs. Hannah Packard, and William C. Smith. Several significant events in the history of the ward will be depicted such as birth of the first baby, Hazel Backus; sending1 of the first missionary, Olive Johnson Stark; the first marriage, in which Louis Rawlings and Etha Walker were united; setting apart of the first bishopric, Charles G. Johnson, Edmund Cragun and A. H. Lowe; ordaining of the first elder, the present bishop, Stanley B. Harris. Original people who participated in the events, are being used in ail cases where they are available. Dialogue is1 being given by El-wood El-wood Baxter, and Mr3. Swenson, and Mrs. Packard are furnishing the accompanying music. The" committee responsible includes, in-cludes, Chairman Alexander Lowe, Hazel Marrott, Enid Johnson, Jennie Jen-nie W. Johnson, J. W. Gi'lman, George Shoe 11, and LeGrande Jarman, Uirenswe Invasion fpossibly with an attempted Ger man invasion of the British Isles. At the same time, signs of German Ger-man preparations for an attempted attempt-ed invasion of the British Jsles multiplied and the British bombing bomb-ing squadrons "struck back, with tons of high explosives reported dropped on Tempelhof airdrome in Berlin, on gun emplacements on the French coast, and on barges and ships concentrating- along the European coast, from which an invasion in-vasion of Britain might be started. German aerial bombardment of Britain (a necessary preliminary to invasion) continued, with bombs again falling on the London area, where it was belatedly disclosed that explosives had crashed around the Bank of England in Threadneedle street, the Church of St. John the evangelist and the busy Regent street shopping district. dis-trict. The British capital went about its war-time business nearly all day without threat of new bomb ing ' attacks, but late this after noon the alarm signal sounded and powerful new. anti-aircraft weap ons opened fire at German planes high overhead. Bombs were dropped, drop-ped, but the first Nazi thrust appeared ap-peared to be for reconnaissance purposes. There were occasional explosions explo-sions of time-bombs in the Loudon Lou-don area. One blasted windows in the heart of the city at Piccadilly, Picca-dilly, one of the capital's busiest sections. Another still unexplored unex-plored endangered famed St. Paul's Cathedral and forced evacuation evacu-ation of nearby streets. But the British armed forces were taking no chancc-3 after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Church-ill's warning of great preparations by the Germans for an invasion of the British Isles, possibly within the next week. Striking1 awiftly across the Eng--(Continued on Page Four) Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnatti 100 251 000 9 New York 000 000 004 4 Thompson and Lombardi; Lohr-man. Lohr-man. Carpenter (5) and Danning. First game Pittsburgh 000 000 000 0 Brooklyn . 010 000 OOx 7 Heinzelman, Lanning and Lopez, Fernandos; Casey and Mancuso. Second game Pittsburgh 010 000 30 Brooklyn 010 003 12 Butcher and Davis; Hamlin and Phelps. First game St. Louis 001 021 021 7 Boston 054 022 40x 17 Bowman and Padgett; Tobin, Lanier (2) Doyle (3) and Berres. Second game St. Louis 000 000 1 Boston 100 100 0 Cooper and Owen; Posdel and Broskie. Chicago 203 COO 000 5 Philadelphia . . . 000 001 000 1 French and Todd; Johnson, Small and Atwood. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 002 000 1 Detroit 100 001 0 Donald and Dickey; Rowe Sullivan. and Boston Cleveland . . Ostermueller and Pytlak. . . . 000 000 . . . 010 700 and Foxx; Harder First game Philadelphia . . . 000 000 000 0 Chicago 000 000 Olx 1 Ross and Hayes; Dietrich and Tresh. Second game Philadelphia ... 100 200 0 Chicago 000 000 2 Babich and F. Hayes; Smith and Turner. Washington 032 t. Loui3 000 lilDEBS F02 JEQPARDES 13 Mere Than ICO Hurt; Sabotage Angle To Be Investigated . . s KEN VI L, N. J., Sept. T2 (U.R) Four terrific blasts at the Kemdl plant of the IFercu-les IFercu-les Powder company today killed at least 50 persons, according ac-cording to authorities, injured in-jured more than 100 others, jeopardized huge government munitions orders and caused damage dam-age estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The blasts, felt 50 miles away, ripped a two-story solvents recovery recov-ery building to bits, demolished nine powder houses and started a fire which spread to a dozen smaller buildings on the 400-acre factory grounds. On Munitions Orders The plant is one of six operated by the company which last month received government orders for 516,073,000 worth of smokeless powder such as is used in cartridges cart-ridges and shells, and additional orders totaling ?345,000 today. The Kenvil plant was working on $2,000,000 worth of government orders and the British government, govern-ment, too, had contracts with the company. Deputy Sheriff David Hull of Morri3 county, who with Douglas Meyer, chief of company police, directed rescue work, said 3u bodies bod-ies had been recovered up to 4:30 p. m. and that 50 to 100 men were not yet accounted for. (In Washington the federal bureau bu-reau oCJnYestig-atton refused to say whether it was investigating possibility that the " explosic'I might have been caused by sabotage. sabot-age. It WLis said, however, that FBI investigation always follows such incidents and the first step (Continued on Page Four) YOUTH MUG fJ LiOUHTMIS VERNAL, Utah, Sept. 12 (UP) The rugged Uintah mountains northwest of here were being searched today for trace of Lynn V. Simmons, 20, Salt Lake City, government land survey worker. Simmons had been mussing for more than a day when he failed to return to camp. Continuing his work during a rain and snowstorm, snow-storm, Simmons did not show up at a new camp location, to which it had been moved during the storm. More than a hundred Utah and Wyoming CCC enrollees were searching along the Upper Bear river. Hope was beginning to dwindle that he would be found alive. Simmons is a son of Lee Simmons, Sim-mons, supervisor of healCTT in the Salt Lake City schools, and a former Payson resident. 125 KILLED IN LONDON ATTACK LONDON. Sent. 12 i:P)Tf WBa announced officially tonight that 125 persons were killed and ap-approximately ap-approximately 250 injured during Wednesday - afternoon's w London. The announcement said 40 were knled and arnroximativ ivci injured during the night attack yesterday. AUNT IH5T "A willow has one advantage. ad-vantage. She can lra about 1 i r dead husband; but when you brag about a live one, other women can we he's got you fooled." |