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Show I L hiiild Utah Ccimtu ' Ey I'Atror.:;.: LJ Store s.t r - - w - rTAII: l i :r i,:: ' U and Thurs-t Thurs-t r mxlsrv.zna Urr.?., Tus.iy ?Zin. temp., TwsJay SI r i ! i .. ' i I - f r.!B!nc:i Eowjw &---- It) --,1" FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. ; T" "7 f "' "1 It's been a Iv-sy day for some of the fellows today, what with registration, open-in- cf the duck hunting season sea-son -.;-. d everything. When it comes to trained men who know how to use guns, Utah wouldn't have to take a back seat to any of the states in the Union. With all our duck hunters, the deer and the elk hunters, we fc-ve quite an army of sports.cn. Shouldn't be any fear of invading in-vading parachutists if you turned an army of Utah hunters loose over the landscape. land-scape. Hitler, . please take notice. oOo There is a place for everything every-thing in today's defense industry. in-dustry. Even old movie films. A new plant to convert old films into high explosives is about to be established at Lake Crystal near Minneapolis. Minneapo-lis. Here nitrate will he extracted ex-tracted from the smash hits of yesterday and will be used in the manufacture of TNT and other powerful charges. The thrilling sagas over which you once laughed and cried and applauded, are about to be reduced to a poof out of a big pun. And Clark Gable and Robert Taylor are about to go up in smoke. - In defense, anything goes. Those whistles and sirens which heralded registration day at an early hour This morning caused no end of speculation in some quarters. One duck hunter down in the marshes of Provo Bay contributed con-tributed one possible solution for the cause of all the noise, with a wondering: "Do you suppose Great Britain has surrendered ?" A Daily Picture cf VhiVi Gclrj On la ITitisrd Aifdn WASHINGTON Some of the most important dLscusslona ever held regarding the Far East are now taking place behind the scenes in Washington. And as frequently fre-quently happens, there is a division div-ision of opinion inside the Cabinet. Cab-inet. This division is not over firmness firm-ness in the policy toward Japan. There is complete unanimity on that point. The debate is whether to impose an almost complete embargo on the sale of raw materials ma-terials to Japan particularly fuel oil. One group within the Cabinet sees no reason why we should keep on feeding the Japanese war machine. The other group and this includes the entire State Department fears that if we cut off the sale of these supplies too abruptly, Japan will strike back. To get the full significance of the present picture, one must compare it with an slmost identical iden-tical situation which faced the Roosevelt Administration when Japan Invaded China in 1037. For the most part, the details of this story have not been told. When Japan first launched its invasion, a series of conferences took place between Roosevelt. Hull and the liritksh Embassy during which both sides agreed that a Japanese conquest of China, with its cheap hitor and vast raw materials, would mean a new industrial empire in Asia which eventually would challenge Australia, New Zealand and the United States in the Pacific. Secretary Hull went further than this, and pointed out that the dictators of Europe Hitler (Continued on '." n Three) e j3 s il - ,r 78 ra tfi ijne im r- O if H T ; : ; ! ! m m m R "f Vidtsoe, Clar!:, Harris Address Thror.a at College Hall Dr. John A. Widtsoe, J. Reuben Clark, and Dr. Franklin Frank-lin S. Harris addressed students stu-dents and faculty members of Brigham Young university in an assembly this morning in College hall, feature"" cT activities ac-tivities commemorating the sixty-fifth anniversary of the school's founding:. From the theme of Founders day, ' The First Vision of Joseph Smith," Dr. Widtsoe. principal speaker, drew nine truths: Man is God's instrument in fuP filling God's -ork upon the earth; faith In God, desire for truth, prayer, life is a constant fight for righteousness, order and law are permanent in God's plan, uffiruth is an abomination, truth Is progressive, prog-ressive, and the light is a sign of truth. He urged the students to have faith and to seek for truth in order or-der to prepare themselves to take their part in the fight for truth and rig'hteou.sne.s.'s today. He stressed the need to search for truth, declaring that for error end untruth, man must suffer. "Learning does not descend upon up-on our heads as rain, but must be worked for,'' he said, dark Speaks The assembly, feature of the day's celebration, was marked by a surprise visit from President J. Ileuteu .Clark, who spc;e t:::f-ly, t:::f-ly, giving the students a formula formu-la to "assuage sorrow, to give courage, happiness and strength in this life and saJvation hereafter. "That formula," he said, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ." lie uregd the students to live their religion as a means of attaining attain-ing happiness and prosperity." Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Widtsoe were also on the stand. Dr. Franklin S. vlarris, president of the university, was in charge of the exercises and spoke in reference to the significance of the day's jTogram commorating the 65th anniversary of the founding of the universiyt by a deed of truat from Brigham Young. Dr. Harris told how the school had carried out the proviso of Brigham Young that spiritual training should be given the young people along with academic and mech-( mech-( Continued on Page Eight) P" m f " m V, L - -J W K 1 I . - . i O" 1 " 1 y u v . i y SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 16 (U.n Two Salt Lake county officers arrived here today with Ercil H. Clark, 20-year-old confessed slayer of Willis B. Ferguson. Clark wa3 brought from Le Granda, Ore., where he revealed the murder last week end after his arrest by Oregon state police. Ferguson, a 29-year-old Sandy resident, was slain with his own gun after a beer-drinking party at Copperton, Utah. His body was found concealed in a wheat field east of Copperton. Young Clark, also a resident of Sandy, was driving Ferguson's car when arrested, and at first attempted to pose as the victim. He was accompanied on his jaunt to the Northwest by Annie Lav-atta, Lav-atta, 17, whom he described as his cousin. Coming Events 20-30 club, Thursday, 8 p. m., Hotel Roberta. Dinner meeting. Special program. !. club, Thursday. 7 p.m., Haase cafe. Speaker. Misa Mildred Mil-dred F. Walker, Utah Valley hospital hos-pital superintendent. Directors meeting at 6:15 p- m. Pi-ovo Iodge, lr.O. Mlks, Thursday, S p. m. Regular lodge. Rotary, Hi.X Friday. Rotarians invited to attend the meeting at Og-len at which Senor Armando Pereira of Brazil, president of Rotary Ro-tary International, will speak. Thone who don't go to Ogden will meet at Hotel Roberts at 12:15 p.m. as usual. Kluanis cluh, Thursday, 12:15 p. m.. Hotel Roberts. Dr, D. El-don El-don Rpck and Tom Peterson cf BriRham Young university will five an Illustrated lecture on scenic Wonders of Utah. ri'IrrlvLJ T PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, r ? r - r ? 1 7 Lay ton School Girl s Fail To Observe Approach of Freight Train LAYTON, Utah, Oct. 16 U.R) A Union Pacific locomotive locomo-tive interrupted a game of tag in downtown Lay ton late yesterday, yes-terday, killing ten-year-old Arnelda Higgs and her nine-year nine-year - old companion, Dena Hodgson. The two children, absorbed in their game, darted onto the tracks directly in front of an engine drawing a freight train. Harry T. Sullivan, Salt Lake City, the engineer, said ho scarcely had time to reach for the emergency brakes before the locomotive struck. A school bus operator, Joe Clinton, Clin-ton, who had stopped to wait for the train to pass, paid the girls were playing besfcie the track when one of them he. was not fure which ran acroas the rails. The other followed, and then halted, apparently stunned by the imminence of the roaring engine. Sullivan said the train was moving about 40 miles an hour at the time of the impact. It required re-quired one-fourth of a mile to stop. Arnelda was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Higgs, while Dena was the child of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hodgson. J By WILLIAM II. LAWRENCE ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, ENROUTE TO CINCINNATI, OHIO, Oct. 15 U.P Wendell L. Willkie, campaigning through the heart of Ohio on his second trip to this state in two weeks, promised prom-ised today that, if elected, he would bring about "an expanding J economy with a constantly rising standard of living for those who work.'' On hia way to Cincinnati for a major sp?ech on relief tonight, the Republican presidential candidate stopped first at Mansfield, in Ohio's rich agricultural area, for am address from the rear platform of his tram. Sen Rising Wage "I want to guarantee absolutely absolute-ly all the social gains workers have won, but I want to do much more, I want to bring about an economy where wages will constantly con-stantly rise,'' Willkie said, "and I know how to bring about that econocy away with defeatism away with the talkers. Ufnfws Promise-He Promise-He renewed his promise to call a national economic conference of farm, labor, industry and consumer con-sumer representatives and declared declar-ed that "together we will make an America strong in its domestic economy and eo strong in its defenses de-fenses that no dictator will ever seek to strike." Willkie told the crowd that he wanted to develop a country where "every youth has a hope in life." He asserted that the Democrats know but three methods of campaigning, cam-paigning, "smear, silence with imaginary military inspection trips, and the pressure of billions of dollars." Willkie left New York state and came into Ohio, where he also is to make stopa at Marion, Springfield, Spring-field, Dayton and Hamilton on his way to Cincinnati. Hia Cincinnati address will be broadcast over the Blue network of the National ! Broadcasting- company from 8:30 to 9 p. m., EST. Labor Federation Committee Rejects Colton Endorsement SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. lb (rpt The law and legislative commit tee of the Salt Lake Fc Miration of Labor today rejected rt; .t action ac-tion of the Utah State IV ; ration of Labor in endorsing Don li. Colton, Col-ton, Republican candidate for governor. gov-ernor. The committee went on record as supporting neither candidate, but approving . the .. labor ., policies ol both. The same stand had been i ; i - i "X. r n n n f if ? ? i : i "- (a 1 i i r v. - Fe-r HKi D-th Te l In Dcr-jin- Of fjchool LONDON, Oct. 1G (U.R) German air squadrons : -tacked London in their 4C, i consecutive night of raids tonight, to-night, adding to the damns? of an intensive aerial offensive offen-sive against many sections of the British Isles. The raiders were reported operating oper-ating again over a wide area, Including In-cluding Liverpool, the "MiclanU and the northwest part of England. Eng-land. The Nazi planes flew through low clouds. A high death toll was feared in the bombing last night of a four-story four-story music school, although from 30 to 40 persona were rescued alive from the debris of the building. build-ing. Some of those who escaped literally liter-ally were blown from the bui'dir-but bui'dir-but others were rescued after four tunnel-j were laboriously dug by rescue workers into the ruins. One woman who was trapped in the wreckage was given tea through a tube until she could be extricated. The school, used as a shelter by people all over the neighborhood, wa3 leveled and rescuers found only a few steel pillars sticking up through the ruins. Three London hospitals, three schools, a college and two churches, church-es, in addition to many houses and business premises, wew xrrr : by 'the Germany in ra-si attacks la-sting for hours on 72 London and at least 23 provincial districts. The air ministry admitted the raids were heavy and said a large number of bombs had been dropped drop-ped on London and its suburbs, but damage was not as great as during one raid early last month. Bombs were dropped indiscriminately, indis-criminately, the ministry said, on many parts of the capital. Damage, Dam-age, however, was confined mainly to homes, industrial premises and utility services. There was no tendency to un-der-rate the severity of the all-night all-night attack. For hours buildings rocked with the blast of bombs and anti-aircraft fire was so h?avy that it was almost impassible to walk through the streets. It was emphasized, however, that the Germans were indulging purely in terror bombing directed mainly at the civilian population and that damage to military objectives ob-jectives was actually relat vely slight. BERLIN, Oct. 16 K.V.t Well-informed Well-informed quarters said today more than 300 British troops probably were killed or wounded when a German dive-bomber scored scor-ed a direct hit on a troop train near Liverpool today. It was claimed a Junkers-88, returning from a raid on a British airdrome near Liverpool, attacked the train and scored a direct hit on the locomotive. BORN" Boy. to Carlyle E. and Margot Bell Maw of New York City, this morning in a New York hospital, according to word received bv the grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Maw. LICENSED TO MAKflY Owen Rowe. 25, Provo, and Dorothy Hedqui.'it, 21, Provo. taken by the AFL at its recent meeting In Logan. The action came un 13 Salt Lake City AFL locals - and the Ogdcn Trades and Labor group added their support to H- ri rt li. Maw, Democratic candidate. Charles T. Dlx, secretary of the committee, said the Retlon follow ed appearance of Maw r.rfore the ! meeting . of the committee test night. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940 Over 1G Million Are Registered in tlie Nation By LYLE C. WIUSON First call, and millions answer. an-swer. All day ' America's young manhood is marching. They're a little out of step, Gut not for long. Zero hour moves westward with the sun and 16,404,000 strong they register for national service. East side, west side, main street, farm; town hall, firehouse, village barn the young men gather to fulfill their responsibility to America. Johnny geta his gun if his number num-ber comes up. , "Democracy is your cause the cause of youth,'' President Roosevelt Roose-velt tells them. Seven a. m., and they are lined up and waiting in the east. Another An-other hour, another time zone, and the Mississippi valley la offering up its youth. Through the mountain moun-tain states the zero hour is moving, mov-ing, up and over and down the Pacific slope. The machinery of national selective se-lective service is spinning coast-to-coast, gulf - to - Canada. The world around us is on fire. This Ls the traditional American muster done to greater scale. But the muster, all the same, that enabled en-abled western pioneers to hold the plains states and the New Eng-lamU'rs Eng-lamU'rs .before them to meet, the Indians' charge. America is mobilizing mo-bilizing for defense. The president emphasized that. Here they come, there they gr 1,OM,000 or more an Hour for the national army of defense all males, 21 to 35 years old, inclusive. in-clusive. All male,1? that is the way of democracy. The high and low, rich and poor, good and bad. The Rockefeller boys and the sons of their elder servants. Bobby Feller Fel-ler signs on with a shot gun in the crook of his arm. Bobby's going hunting: and if the draft gets him, okav. Tousrh. though for the Cleveland ball club. Hour bv hour the lines form at 125,000 places of registration. It won't be long. now. Johnny, if yon are fit and free. Oct. 16, 1940 America at peace register its young manpower for compulsory military service it was happening here. Married or sinple, alien or citizen, citi-zen, the registration i,? all-inclusive except for those comparatively comparative-ly few exempt because of their membership In or association with the armed services or who are on an otherwise strictly limited es sential li.st. There are 11 questions and the man frets a card. Hw card later gets a number and some 900,000 of those numbers will call for guns. There are about 3,280,000 of those young men who are on the march today who will be fit and available no dependents, no essential job. The first 900,000 are among them somewhere a.s they come today from field and factory, cities and towns. P o V -o1 l 9 ' m r , .4 . SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 16 (UJ1) F. M. Pannetier, 55, Salt Lake City engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, wag killed today-when a train operated by the same company he worked for crashed into the automobile he was driving along a city street. The accident put B. C. Frakes, 26, fireman for the same company, com-pany, in a Salt Lake City hospital in a critical condition. The accident occurred in south Salt Lake City when the two men, returning from work, ran directly in the path of the speeding speed-ing train. Frake.s suffered fractured frac-tured legs, ribs and collar bone sod multiple cuts and bruises. kl:l3 ?.:::lt TiiunsnAV Members of Provo Lode No. SiD, B. I'. O. 'Elks, arc planning a real grt-tosether for Thrfixy rsiht. There will bo en initiation during the lod,?e meeting, followed fol-lowed by a special' entertainment arranged by Bob Bullock, according accord-ing to H. K. Jolleyv exalted ruler. A buffet lunch will be served I v the refreshment oornrt.Lttee. All r.'i . ; are urped to attend. n r o W v -j Signing Up Here's a scene that was enacted today in Provo, elsewhere in the of America, aged 21 to 35, inclusive, registered for possible m service. By JOHN WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt today to-day .told the estimated 1G, 404,000 young men who are registering regis-tering for the nation's first peacetime draft that their cause is to save democracy and peace from those "who have dared to threaten the whole world with.)- war.' - In an unprecedented early morning morn-ing radio address an hour after eastern registration began the president said that the program upon which the nation has embarked em-barked was one "obviously of defense de-fense preparation and of defensive preparation only," but that , the duty of this day has been imposed upon us from without." "Those who have dared to threaten the whole world with war those' who have created the name and deed of total war have imposed upon u and upon oil free peoples the necessity of preparation prepara-tion for total defense," he said. Selective compulsory military training, he eaid, in effect, is America's answer. "Today's registration for training train-ing and service," he said, "Is the keystone in the arch of our national na-tional defense. ... "To the 16.000.000 young men who register today, I say that democracy de-mocracy is your cauo the cause of youth. . . . Your act today affirms af-firms not only your loyalty to your countrymen, but your will to build your future for your selves." Keynoting the registration, Mr. Roosevelt aid that on this day more than 16,000,000 men "are reviving re-viving the three hundred year old American custom of the muster." "In the days when our forefathers fore-fathers laid the foundations of our democracy, every American family had to have its gun and know how to use it. Today we live under threats, threats of aggression from abroad, which call again for the fame readiness, the same vigilance. vigi-lance. Ours must once again be the spirit of those who prepared to defend aa they built, to defend as they worked, to defend as they worshipped." In dedicating registration to the cause of democracy, he said that "democracy is the one form of society which guarantees to every .man the right to imagine m i to attempt to bring to pr.ss a U tter world. ..." It is for this cause, he paid, "the . wore of peace," that th. more than 16,000,000 men are rrg- i'derin?. 'JTAJT8 ON LI D Alb V W.UTH OF 8AX.T LJk-KIO o ii i for the Draft - thousands and thousands of state and the nation as the times youth iiitary "3'ienGe 3 KEICIIM ANN riernscrauon Sidelirrlits Answering the call of their country, coun-try, young men from farms, stores. industrial plants, scnoois -irom every walk of life left whatever they were doinc; today to have their names placed on Uncle Sam's conscription registration roll. oOo Chief registrars reported that almost to the man, the registrants seemed happy to sign up, feeling it not only their duty but a pat riotic privilege. I here was no grumbling evidenced. oOo Whereas it was estimated 20 minutes would be required to register reg-ister each man, the average time was not over 15 minutes. Registrars Regis-trars said one reason for this was that the men had the necessary information right at their fingertips finger-tips and little delay wa3 caused through having to stop and think or look up dates and other salient data. oOo In Provo, registrars were swamp;;d during the early morning morn-ing hour.", but after about 10:30, there was a lull that lasted untTl men star-ted getting off work in the afternoon. More than 100 men were waiting at the city and county coun-ty building when registration started at 7 a. m. oOo- Provo u." he red In the day by sounding sirens and whistles at 7 o'clock. The fire department provided pro-vided a patriotic atmosphere by hanging American flapsr along the main streets. oOo I Tables in the halls of the city and county building were decorated deco-rated by small flags furnished by the Kiwania club. At first, u British flag as well n.s an Ar-.cr-h'an flag (stood in each holder, as displayed by I Ci ward 3 International, Internation-al, but the British emblems were removed by Chief Registrar Denzil A- Brown when some of the registrants regist-rants protested that they were signing with Uncle Kara and not! with Britain. 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS x r jr ' " p' it i : "2 1 -l w" r t r i 0 600 Signed Up in Pro vo Before Noon Today Utah county's young men, joining in the history-making conscription registration, were on the march today, and by 9 o'clock tonight 9000 of them are expected to have answered the call to military service, , v-'"-l Up to noon, an estimated 25oJ had registered, 600 of them in Provo, with registrars predicting "rushing business" for the iate afternoon and evening- hours. From Salt Lake City came the estimate that 67,000 men between 21 and 25 years of age, inclusive, would register during the day. Reports from Fort Duche.-uie indicated in-dicated that 00 per cent of Utah's Indian residents had signed up. Late yesterday representatives of the Shoshone tribe, headed by Chief Tootiwana of Waklaki e, Utah, appeared at the state board headquarters with a resolution of loyalty. The chief said his braves were ready for the warpath but didn't know where to find it. The heaviest concentration of registrants occurred when the booths opened at 7 a. ra., hundreds hun-dreds of young men d..-.'nibiir.g to get registered before work. However, the waiting line is expected ex-pected to form again this evening. Registrars reported in practically practical-ly all cases the young- men were willing and anxious to register, and held back no information. However,' one rgistratlori center reported two potential conscripts who appeared reluctant one hesitated hesi-tated to give hia true name, -aj mitting he held a VPA job under another appellation, ond the other stating he had arrived early to assure registrars that his mothers' moth-ers' dependency disqualified him. He could see no reason for Tilling out the card.- PLEASANT GROVE Registration Registra-tion for the civil selective service began in Pleasant Grove at 7 a m. in the Civic building, according to Mayor V. X. West, who i3 directing- the process. Assisting' Mayor West is Golden I'eay a lien tenant, and the following fol-lowing volunteer registrars: Fern Hicks, Mrs. Marcelle Peterson, Pearl Deveraux, Karl Banks, Ele-roy Ele-roy West, Dan Peterson, - Lyean Johnson, Guy Hillmsn, Ilyrum Robertson, E. J. Swenson, Harvey Smith, Nathaniel Loader, Josej'h Walker and Victor N. Stokes. Registration will cease at i) p.m. ARMY AIRPORT PLANNED AT FRESNO WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UP Sen. Sheridan Downey, D, Calif., said today he had been advised that the army air corps will establish a new $1,000,000 station at -the: Fresno, Calif., municipal airport, comprising 175 officers and 1,500 enlisted men. IN'DI STRIA LIST DI l ,S NEW YORK, Oct. 16 U'.K) Matthew Mat-thew C. Brush, C3, industrialist, died of a hart attack last nisht at Doctor's hospital, where he had been a patient for two weeks. Brush was best known as president presi-dent of the American International Internation-al Shipbuilding corporation at Hog Island during World War days. auiit zz-r "Divorce wasn't co common com-mon uhfti I was C"iag, A girl r '.;ht U s It t i g'd r.: ..' f, I i:t t' y rUJn't tin -nor";i l.iv-W' -S-.?n' to g-t fed tofure r;tr. I !!." ,. ... U W |